Is anyone else getting the feeling

[Izanagi_Fiaresu]

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[Videra]

Final Fantasy has always had beef with blind faith and generally following an ideology without thinking about it.

[Izanagi_Fiaresu]

Final Fantasy has always had beef with blind faith and generally following an ideology without thinking about it.

Can't they use other religions as symbolism? I mean it is pretty anti christian first the HW story and now the Holiness being evil

[Moonfish]

Can't they use other religions as symbolism? I mean it is pretty anti christian first the HW story and now the Holiness being evil

You and your religion aren’t victims here. Let’s remember that this is a game, shall we?

[Driavna]

Can't they use other religions as symbolism? I mean it is pretty anti christian first the HW story and now the Holiness being evil

You are overthinking it too much.

[Allegor]

In HW yes, but it's kind of a historical fact the church had an EVIL period and they simply referenced said dark era, rather than straight up saying religion is bad, period. With ShB...I don't see it - if anything, it looks more like the Ying-Yang theme of light and dark needing a balance and neither being inherently good or bad.

[SoloWingMetatron]

Can't they use other religions as symbolism? I mean it is pretty anti christian first the HW story and now the Holiness being evil

Although the visual elements of the Sin Eaters take some inspiration of Christian, Islamic and Jewish religious figures...not one of them is actually a representation of said figures. For example those holy lions we fight are not the Lion of Judah, nor are they made out to be. The lore for 5.0 is not a commentary on anti-religion.

[Shougun]

Can't they use other religions as symbolism? I mean it is pretty anti christian first the HW story and now the Holiness being evil

Organized religion and the very real possible corruption has always been questioned in jRPGs but faith not so much (being careful of faith yes, but generally jRPG don't have a "don't believe anything"). I would suggest that you only see it an attack on you specifically if you fear your gathering needs to be questioned and hasn't been lol.

SE also sometimes questions the concept of being faithless . Think of it more as a debate and raising of questions than an attack.

[ElazulHP]

[linay]

That they are sending and anti religious message with Shadowbringers. Like Heavensward played at that to.

The more I look at the story the more I feel I am being targeted as a christian

If so, I don't really see it. From what I can tell, Heavensward isn't really against religion, but more against corrupt leadership.

Shadowbringers seems to be more about pro-balance rather than anti-light, which is probably something from eastern religion. After all, it doesn't change the fact that we still will fight against any voidsent that threatens the Source.