Dismissing Rick and Morty as a show people only think is sophisticated must be some sort of passive-aggressive meme. I won't say it's the most cleverly written show ever, but it's nowhere close to the least. The sophistication of the meta-commentary on character tropes and story structure is well beyond the abilities of some random hack writer.
In FE Three Houses you have the choice to abondon the church and be part of that kingdom you choose the be mentor of in the beginning of the game.
As a very irreligious person I would, but there are few topics that could make me more indifferent than some superstition based motives of the player character. Since I play almost exclusively for gameplay it would probably not hurt my enjoyment much.
Astronomy was something of major importance in the Middle Ages. A good understanding of astronomy was necessary for calculating the changing date of Easter, the most important holiday in the Christian calendar. Theologians such as Bede built upon Easter tables from Late Antiquity and developed sophisticated computation methods for calculating Easter that acknowledged the Spherical nature of the Earth and utilised mathematics and sequencing. Going back earlier, astronomers have used the precise astrolonomical observations of comets within the Irish annals to more reliably predict when they appear. And after the 12th century, the re-emergence of the astrolabe and then the creation of the Rectangulus allowed for a more sophisticated understanding of astronomy and thus more precise measurements of time. To conclude, there was a vigorous scientific engagement with astronomy throughout the Middle Ages that was anything but stagnant.
It's a discussion forum. Sharing opinions is kind of the point. (I disagree too but eh.)
I mean... why not? Religious people use their platforms and voices to convince others of their teachings, wile those in disdain user theirs. As long as nobody get's harmed or oppressed in any way I persdonally think this is ok. Also the second quote is kinda right. Cause OP it talking about religious fanatics.
I was quite surprised by the religion in Octopath Traveller, I expected the usual JRPG twist of the religion being evil but it actually was genuinely good and beneficial to all the characters throughout unless I missed something.
That organ music when you save is one of my favorite little moments in a game.
Please try not to be so close-minded. This is a very insulting, ignorant thing to say.
Same thing - I'm appalled to read things like this around here (and I'm an atheist myself).
The funny thing is that this post is the very hyperbole it is seemingly pointing out.
Yeah I wouldn't have a problem with it unless it was a dialogue heavy game and it influenced the characters choices (or if it was like a Persona game and I had to go to church every Sunday haha)
Because they were generalizing?
Atrocities have been happening since long before currency. Money is just a stand-in for the real struggle over power in general. A good way to hold onto power is to convince the people that you deserve it, and a good way to do that is to convince that it is not only moral that you have that power, but it is in fact your divine right.
Strangely enough the religion in 40k, despite being deeply corrupt and against any sort of modern day morality serves to give humans the mental strength to avoid the corruption of chaos. Humans are a giant fascistic, theocratic, feudalistic nightmare civilization in that world and will regularly commit genocide in the name of their religion while holding back their own technological development with it but the ones that abandon their faith become even worse.
