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  • New TV Trope

    I think TV Trope's should add a new trope into their collection: 'Not' Catholicism. You know, whenever you play a fantasy RPG, there's usually a major religious institution in the game that resembles Roman Catholicism down to a tee (Usually the churches are used as a healing shop, or a re-spawn point, or something like that), but since it's a fantasy world full of dragons, and giants, and such, they can't actually call it what it is, so they just put in some, incredibly transparent, changes to cover it up, such as renaming God or the Church as something vague, or not giving you any specifics on what the religion actually entails? It's just 'Not' Catholicism.

    For instance, the game Dragon's Dogma (which gave me the idea to write this in the first place) has a major religious institution. The cathedrals/abbeys all strongly resemble Medieval cathedrals/abbeys, there are nuns, and they all dress in the usual garb for such, the priests all dress in the easily recognizable garments, the monks all have Tonsures, but they get around all of this by renaming God 'The Maker', and renaming the Catholic Church just "The Church". It's 'Not' Catholicism.
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  • #2
    You mean 'Crystal Dragon Jesus'?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Meta Knight View Post
      You mean 'Crystal Dragon Jesus'?
      Wait, they actually 'do' have a trope for it?
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      -Thomas Aquinas

      I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

      -Hernando Cortez

      What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

      -Frederick 2, Holy Roman Emperor

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      • #4
        As in the Chantry in Dragon Age.

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        • #5
          I do know what you are talking about. Unfortunately, since I play a lot of Japanese games, I've mainly seen instances of caricaturing and demonizing the church. With many of the gamers following suit with petty insults and whatnot.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Manwë Súlimo View Post
            As in the Chantry in Dragon Age.
            That too, yes. Although, to be fair, they do go into very much detail about that religion. However, the similarities are there as well, especially considering they just throw out the entire trope, and name the Templars, "the Templars".
            Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

            -Thomas Aquinas

            I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

            -Hernando Cortez

            What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

            -Frederick 2, Holy Roman Emperor

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            • #7
              Yea, like how God seduced a woman away from her rightful husband and had kinda-sorta wink-wink sex with her.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Just Some Dude View Post
                I do know what you are talking about. Unfortunately, since I play a lot of Japanese games, I've mainly seen instances of caricaturing and demonizing the church. With many of the gamers following suit with petty insults and whatnot.
                Gamers following suit with petty insults
                Are you talking in terms of an MMO, or forumns, or...what?

                As for that, the generic "Church" is usually depicted as a force for good in western RPGS (I'm the inverse, I play a lot of westerns, and not a lot of Japanese), albeit there are some grey areas, such as with the Chantry in Dragon Age, with the lyrium doses.
                Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

                -Thomas Aquinas

                I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

                -Hernando Cortez

                What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

                -Frederick 2, Holy Roman Emperor

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                • #9
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Manwë Súlimo View Post
                    Yea, like how God seduced a woman away from her rightful husband and had kinda-sorta wink-wink sex with her.
                    Didn't she light herself on fire later? I thought that's where the "Jesus" parallel was.
                    Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

                    -Thomas Aquinas

                    I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

                    -Hernando Cortez

                    What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

                    -Frederick 2, Holy Roman Emperor

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                      Don't understand it, just walllllllk awaaaaay.
                      Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

                      -Thomas Aquinas

                      I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

                      -Hernando Cortez

                      What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

                      -Frederick 2, Holy Roman Emperor

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                      • #12
                        Her husband had her burnt, IIRC.

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                        • #13
                          Er, yeah, leaving now...

                          "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

                          "Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman

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                          My Novella blog (Current Novella Begins on 7/25/14)

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                          • #14
                            Enchantment!

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Manwë Súlimo View Post
                              Enchantment!
                              Wolves hunt in packs!
                              Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

                              -Thomas Aquinas

                              I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

                              -Hernando Cortez

                              What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

                              -Frederick 2, Holy Roman Emperor

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