FFXIV's story is threading on dangerous religious grounds

[Caurcas]

I agree.

But I also don't need to suffer people insisting that entertainment media cannot or should not have real-world meaning. It's a fiercely self-absorbed and anti-intellectual stance to take, not to mention just factually inaccurate.

People crap their two-second ideas onto these forums to defend their lazy, consumerist lifestyles. And the lifestyle itself is fine, totally their prerogative. But spreading misinformation and atrociously underthought, counterproductive heuristics to justify it doesn't help anyone other than to create the sort of toxic, no-thought "spout quippy soundbytes" discourse that produces BS threads like this in the first place.

I too, enjoy vocabulary.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Also, religious free societies have been attempted...and have resulted in the deaths of millions. So please, get off thine high horse.

Religious societies also have plenty of deaths on their hands. So really, the message here is that people suck.

[Caurcas]

Religious societies also have plenty of deaths on their hands. So really, the message here is that people suck.

I am not disputing that. Many instances of corruption of faith and using it as means for justifying atrocities have occurred within history. I just take issue with people blaming it solely on faith and religion. When in fact, even in the absence of faith these atrocities still happen.

[Veridiano02]

It remembers me of a Netflix show, Midnight Mass, where a priest does a thing with blood and summons a vampire to become an angel of god or something.
What this has to do with this threat? Nothing. I just want to be here.

[Fellgon]

Isn't religion subject against the forum rules??

[MagicPeanut]

Okay, I KNOW you’re trolling, but I just have to say that as a Christian, I have always respected how FFXIV handled religion and gods. The XIII trilogy, specifically with Lightning Returns, always had my eyes rolling with how blatantly insulting the story was towards the idea of God. But I was always amazed with how well FFXIV handled the concept of religion and worship. The characters seek to stop the beast tribes, but never leaned into insulting their beliefs or stomping on it to get what they wanted. The existence of beast tribe quests basically proves this. Anyway, yeah. I burst out laughing when I read the title of this thread.

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

Okay, I KNOW you’re trolling, but I just have to say that as a Christian, I have always respected how FFXIV handled religion and gods. The XIII trilogy, specifically with Lightning Returns, always had my eyes rolling with how blatantly insulting the story was towards the idea of God. But I was always amazed with how well FFXIV handled the concept of religion and worship. The characters seek to stop the beast tribes, but never leaned into insulting their beliefs or stomping on it to get what they wanted. The existence of beast tribe quests basically proves this. Anyway, yeah. I burst out laughing when I read the title of this thread.

The least of XIII's problems, by a mile, but valid point.

I prefer to forget that dumpster fire ever existed.

[Catwho]

None of the games in the FF series have ever shied away from smacking down corrupt religions.

It was the major plot point in FFX that the Church of Yevon was perpetuating an evil upon the land and had to be stopped.

[Neoyoshi]

Troll-O-Meter=100%

Username also not accurate.

Not enough Titanmen D:

[gumas]

if that how you think, shouldnt you be complain waaay before? like back in arr TITAN?

on the other hand, oh hey look another join date dec 2021 with post barely double digits


move along