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rreyuko
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So I’m a fan of the Persona franchise which itself is a spin-off of the larger Shin Megami Tensei series. I’ve heard a lot of people say that SMT along with various other JRPGs “offend God” because in SMT you have to kill an exaggerated version of him. I believe that this isn’t intended to represent Our God, though but rather the exaggerated version of him that humanity thinks is real, as, in the SMT games there is a true god called the Great Will who gave humanity to make anything they believed real. They created gods but one of the gods, YHWH turned bad and tried to take humanities free will, killing all the other gods, and turning them into either his slaves or demons. At the end of the games you have to kill him. Some people say that this is trying to misrepresent god but I believe this is just meant to be used as a separate character not a representation, although I’ve never played SMT myself. While targeting SMT can be justified when people target other games like Xenoblade Chronicles and Final Fantasy its more silly than anything else. The reason I think this is because in Xenoblades case, there is a scientist who teamed up with his friend to make a new world because they believed humanity was to corrupt although this scientist decided he would be the sole owner of the universe and humanity would exist only to cater to him. He is also killed at the end of the game, although this is in no way offensive because he is a separate character on his own and even portrayed as evil but people make arguments that when monotheistic “God-like” deities are killed in games, they are meant to represent our God. People also say that this spreads the message that the idea of a omniscient, monotheistic god limits free will and misleads your faith but in most cases but if some deities take things too far in video games how is that meant to be a comment about our god? Furthermore, I’m pretty sure Xenoblade is trying to comment more on the harm man can do if he becomes a god and at the end when the main character wishes for a “World with no gods” I think this applies more to the restrictions and what gods can be in his world (the gods of that world survive on the ether of the deceased, without it, Zanza would fade away and there was less awareness of him, so he created a cycle of destruction in which all life must eventually be destroyed, then returned to him in order to be recreated.) But anyways what do you guys think?