What, me blasphemous?
We have all heard the meme, however absolutely you’ve got seen {that a} honest variety of video video games do let your character develop so highly effective that they threaten to deal with divine beings—generally actually. Why is that, and why does it appear particularly widespread in video games from Japan the place Western religions maintain such a small presence?
Host Jeremy Parish and company Shivam Bhatt, Chris Sims, and Benito Cereno (the latter two of the Apocrypals podcast) convene this week to look at the historical past of just about ousting the Almighty. Count on a second podcast on this topic sooner or later as soon as extra historical texts might be translated.
Description: What’s up with all these JRPGs making you kill God? Having weathered the ’80s Satanic Panic, Jeremy Parish, Chris Sims, Benito Cereno, and Shivam Bhatt search the solutions by tracing the historical past of Christianity’s unfold into Japan—together with JRPGs.
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Art work for this episode by Nick Wanserski and modifying thanks go to Greg Leahy.
