Board Thread:Lords of Shadow 2/@comment-9249716-20130609232735/@comment-86.21.101.169-20140317122403

99.115.61.255 wrote: He was defending his beliefs in a logical way while being offensively impolite and letting his theological predispositions influence his judgment in a videogame featuring a fictional universe in which many things do not stay true to their mythical origins. If the Chupacabra is not a race of blood-sucking monsters, but rather an immortal trickster with immense magical power, or if Pan is not a Greek God but a follower of the One God, or if Agreus is not a spawn of Pan but rather his brother, is it possible that God in LoS is different from his religious portrayals? I believe the answer should be "yes".

From an objective point of view -not a religious one, the guy claiming God is the antagonist was arguing his point in a purely analytical way, without being actively offensive (unless you consider saying anything bad about clearly fictional God in a clearly fictional universe with barely any relation to our own, in which God may or may not exist depending on your faith, offensive). The guy above, however, used inflamatory phrases such as "Did you read my above post?", "Obviously you never played the games if you said this", or sarcastic ones like "Oh and Satan was not an Old God." He also made groundless assumptions, claiming that the other guy was an aetheist who enjoys seeing God being labeled the bad guy. Nobody likes be incorrectly labeled, especially if such labeling was based purely on one's own mental set. He can be a Christian, a Buddhist, or he can worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster - it's his own business. If he's being rude, his belief should not be used as an excuse. I see nothing rude in sarcastic statements and "did you read my above post" was hardly an inflamatory comment. He was annoyed at someone suggesting God should be the big bad in LoS2 because of their real life atheistic beliefs about the Judeo-Christian god.

He answered all your points in any case and now you're using an ad hominem attack against him.

Also it's established that "the god of the LoS" universe is the Christian God. This is explictly stated with a direct reference to Christianity and the power of Christ in the first game. It makes sense he'd have all the attributes associated with the Judeo-Christian god as The Bible states and nothing in the LoS mythos suggests its universe' version of God is any different. The only difference I see is that God appears to be a deistic type of god in LoS as he lets things be which is more in line with my view on God IRL.

A god who doesn't interact can hardly be called "flawed" for not interacting. He wouldn't be evil. At best you could label him as neutral but really, that would only be true if he was indifferent to evil and good.