Do characters with religious beliefs get treated differently than non religious characters in fandom?
To me it seems like that at times. There is always a fandom and a hatedom, but I have noticed a lot of times with certain characters the problem doesn't seem to be entirely with a character, more so than there religious beliefs.
For example if you play Dragon Age there is Cullen, a minor npc in the first game, who plays a much larger role in the 2nd game. Some of the comments I have heard in relation to him and other religious characters has been decidedly negative. Some call Cullen a religious zealot for his words later in the game about killing mages after a very traumatic event(though to be flat out this is just plain missing the narrative, 100% wrong in terms of story comprehension just by virtue of the narrative techniques implied in the story). In reference to The Chantry as a whole I see a lot of people basically saying burn the mother fucker down. Even with "good" characters such as Leliana people who even like her complain about her being too religious (and liking shoes)
Actually my kinda BF's cousin and her ex completely lost there shit while watching The Avengers and he gives that "one god" line,(which is pretty unreasonable actually when you consider the context of the period in which he grew up, and wasn't he raised in an orphanage after his parents died in the film univese anyway?).
Is it my imagination? Is there a reason that any religious belief is somehow equated with negativity?
Why is this?
To me it seems like that at times. There is always a fandom and a hatedom, but I have noticed a lot of times with certain characters the problem doesn't seem to be entirely with a character, more so than there religious beliefs.
For example if you play Dragon Age there is Cullen, a minor npc in the first game, who plays a much larger role in the 2nd game. Some of the comments I have heard in relation to him and other religious characters has been decidedly negative. Some call Cullen a religious zealot for his words later in the game about killing mages after a very traumatic event(though to be flat out this is just plain missing the narrative, 100% wrong in terms of story comprehension just by virtue of the narrative techniques implied in the story). In reference to The Chantry as a whole I see a lot of people basically saying burn the mother fucker down. Even with "good" characters such as Leliana people who even like her complain about her being too religious (and liking shoes)
Actually my kinda BF's cousin and her ex completely lost there shit while watching The Avengers and he gives that "one god" line,(which is pretty unreasonable actually when you consider the context of the period in which he grew up, and wasn't he raised in an orphanage after his parents died in the film univese anyway?).
Is it my imagination? Is there a reason that any religious belief is somehow equated with negativity?
Why is this?