FFXIV's story is threading on dangerous religious grounds

[KizuyaKatogami]

I think you misunderstand the message of the game.

You arent killing gods in a sense, you kill false hopes made flesh. They are idols that those people summon, so that they solve their problems, instead of solving them themselves.

What the Warrior of Light does, is not killing their god, because they cant. What they kill is the urge to let deities work their lives out and reminding them, that their lifes are in THEIR hand and they should solve their problems by themselves.

Its not about believing in gods, its about wanting the easy way out, on general.

Endwalker deals with a different way of "easy way out",

which is nihilism.

Its not always the same.

At least thats what I think

The WoL has never solved their problems by themselves though. They’ve always had some deity or higher up entity aiding them. We also literally summon primals ourselves in both Eden and the end of EW to help us. So is it only a case of it’s only okay when the protagonists do it?

[Saraide]

The WoL has never solved their problems by themselves though. They’ve always had some deity or higher up entity aiding them. We also literally summon primals ourselves in both Eden and the end of EW to help us. So is it only a case of it’s only okay when the protagonists do it?

Absolutely, you just need to ignore all context those summonings happen in and your statement is 100% true.