Japanese games with Christian imagery
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Gnosticism
Why does this happen? Why does this keep happening? It's 2025 and nobody can catechize them still?
Japanese games with Christian imagery
Look inside
Gnosticism
Why does this happen? Why does this keep happening? It's 2025 and nobody can catechize them still?
Christian image?
Gnosticism is cool and makes for some good story telling
The lore in Pistis Sophia is a lot more enthralling than the Bible
gnosticism is a religious philosophical debate around the basic premises of christianity and its metaphysical morals that has an immediate and tangible connection to japanese buddhist spirituality, which is why its so completely embedded in so many properties.
if you're a narcissist, sure
you've clearly never read the Bible and your understanding of God is still a Seth McFarlane cartoon
don't kid yourself
read more Japanese interviews, it's almost always exclusively because it's foreign and sounds cool
*sluuuuuuuurp*
Gnosticism is a politically neutral and not charged in one way or another plus builds up for occult and mythological landscape that can be drawn upon for story telling. Just like how Shin Megami Tensei has been doing it since the dawn of the dungeon crawler days. Its gnosticism but done well. At least Demons are the bad guys and you have to use them like a necromancer would've so its based like that. Demons got no rights.
I was raised evangelical and have probably read it a lot more than you.
People can think things like reincarnation and ascending to the “real” world are cool even if they don’t believe it. Plus, it answers questions that some of the blindly loyal are too stupid to ask, like
Why did God purposefully make Adam and Eve without any understanding of good and evil?
the evangelion team was making what we call a "joke" when they said that, you know
I'm sorry you contracted eva-itis. real shows like meguca have real gnosticism.
I mean, Jesus washed other people’s feet. Isn’t the whole point to be like Christ?
Judeo-Christian mythology is kino when you treat it as what it is (mythology).
yes the whole point is to be like an androgynous asexual jewish rabbi that defended adulterers and whores. which is what makes terminally online "tradcaths" so funny when they pretend christianity is "based." meanwhile the greatest honour of their religion is to make out with a black rapefugees feet
Knowledge of good and evil requires an acknowledgement of evil, and understanding the first thing about eschatology understands that the story of Eden is a story - Retold in what may be an imperfect human recollection of man's relationship with God. It's preservation of oral history, its illustration of the idea that God alone created all things, its depiction of Man choosing to fall by disobeying God, these are the important things. Even after the fall we see that God shows love to His creation: He clothes them, He gives them warmth and guidance and accepts communion and sacrifice from them.
evangelical
Ah, I see the issue now. My condolences, you never had a chance.
they've never read interviews beyond Evangelion
What is it with teenagers thinking they've seen the whole breadth of the thing for seeing a single hair?
Gnosticism specifically states that Christians and all other followers of the Abrahamic religion are soulless abominations tricked by the literal manifestation of evil doomed for non-existence while everyone else gets reincarnated until they become one with god
It’s a very scathing critique of Christianity, and the Japs really don’t like them
No, God just wanted them to do what He said and never question things. That’s called blind obedience and it’s bad
I know more about Christianity and the Bible than pretty much everyone I meet and can make the Bible say just about anything I want. I dislike Evangelicals immensely, but I know I’m right
Because the japanese have the right idea about the spiritual.
They know that there's probably something supernatural about the world, but they don't really care about organized religions.
They do things because it feels "nice".
They go to Shinto festivals, they marry in Christian churches, they die with Buddhist rites.
It's a very Laissez faire relationship with the divine
Rote recitation is less impressive than exegetic reading. Eisegesis is an ugly thing, friend. Each of those verses contains a specific context - Cultural, historical, and linguistic.
Not to be schizo but for real, once you begin to notice Gnostic influence in media, it rules out EVERYTHING.
Enjoy Japanese storytelling? It's Gnostic.
Enjoy any form of capeshit? Gnosticism, baby.
Enjoy the basic trope of rags to riches? Gnosis, full stop.
The only games I can think of off the top of my head with overt Christian symbolism are Halo (only the first one, and only part of it), Silent Hill 2 (only a specific ending) and... idunno, ActRaiser?
Like I don't know if you motherfuckers realize this, but EVERY SINGLE MiHoYo gacha game is steeped in gnostic symbolism, and borders on blatant satanism!
And if you start acknowledging that Dualism is incompatible with Christianity, and that sooooo much of our modern understanding of religion comes exclusively from pagan and Semitic theology? That's it, man. You can't really consume ANY media without seeing this shit. It fucking sucks and there's not much you can do about it.
Yeah you're schizo
EVERY SINGLE MiHoYo gacha game is steeped in gnostic symbolism
Not Tears Of Themis lol.
it sucks, I'm a hardcore christfag though
have you tried not worshiping the guy who invented infant mutilation?
christianity is semitic theology retard
I can use a thesaurus too, it doesn’t make you look smart
The context is pretty fucking simple
Dont make graven images
How do you fuck that up? It’s ridiculous to claim to be part of a religion that demands you follow instructions laid out in the most Holy text ever written and just think
Well, we can just ignore some of this but also add shit not found anywhere like confession
It’s blasphemy. God doesn’t take that lightly from what I read
i hate pol christcucks so much it's unreal, they ruined this site with their counter contrarian bullshit. I wish we could go back to the time when Anon Babble was radical left
and i fucking leave 50km from the vatican
I noticed it a long time ago. You should look up Phillip K Dick. He’s responsible for most of it and was hugely influential to sci-fi
Also, Man in the High Castle is a great allegory for this shit, but the last season is a drag to get through
Truly a blessing to see posts like this. God bless you brother for not allowing you to fall for the great deception and for helping illuminate the ignorant children on this site.
P.S. to the other guy. Even if there is some truth to these gnostic ideas of God having done something mean and becoming deranged demiurge whatever, He ultimately decided to incarnate into our world, did miracles, healed the blind, sick, paralyzed. Taught invaluable lessons. Kicked the ass of the RELIGIOUS Pharisees. (Jesus hates religion. Religion is what killed Him). Was brutally killed for standing against those religious hypocrites. And then rose from the dead after having predicted it. Many others claimed to be Christ but only One actually came back after being killed.
Y’all can keep living in your cave thinking that’s all there is to reality. One day you’ll realize the wasted time. Hopefully it won’t be too late
posting on Sunday morning
Everyone ITT repent now. You DID go to church today to receive the word and sacrament, right anons?
I’m the other guy, and that’s the kind of thinking they feed people in cults.
I went to school for evangelicals for 12 years and still have dozens of verses memorized in my 30’s. I promise you, I know more about the Bible than you
NTA but Biblicism is cancer and to ignore the testimony of the Church is pure unadulterated hubris. Yes, I'm Protestant.
You and me too fren.
Pendulum will swing any day now ... Oh wait we're filled with mossad shills who push culture war shit to divide and conquer.
OP here, I'm not even Christian.
playing make believe your entire life because you’re too low IQ to form your own moral basis and want to believe you will be rewarded by going to a magical land when you die where everyone plays harps and sit on clouds and everyone who didnt follow along with your make believe gets to go to burning lava pit getting poked by evil goatee man with horns
pretty cringe ngl, one shade away from trannies
Gnosticism is Christian.
It was a Christian sect that just didn't survive, like a thousand others that didn't become popular meme material for JRPGs.
Has it occurred to you that all of those things existed before Gnosticism as a school of thought
Like maybe one influenced the other and not in the order you encountered them in but instead the order that they came about and it only seems like the other way because you exist thousands of years after their invention and despite having the benefit of hindsight and centuries of commentaries you're still just stupid
Has it occurred to you
I didn’t get beat over the head with this as you did but I was brought up in the church and it never made sense until many years later when it suddenly all clicked. Why does everything in media push their own morals and ideas while always putting Jesus down? Why does it seem like the rich old farts in charge of the world love the ideals of lucifer? Pentagrams in almost every flag? Symbolism from the occult in every big company logo? What I’ve come to see I can’t unsee. I know the Bible is hard to grasp and come to terms with but nothing else makes sense in regards to who is truly righteous and who should we follow. We will either follow and worship our selves aka man aka lucifer. Or we can deny our selfish selves and follow the one who while we were His enemies, gave His life to save us.
Also it’s not so much Gnosticism being shoved down our throats it’s kabbalism.
reactionary christcuck thread
I wish we could go back to the time when Anon Babble was radical left
I have been here since 2007 and it was never left wing from that point forward. From what I know of the years before, it was not the case either. The most "left" it was was in 2008-2012 when there was massive support for the two Ron Paul presidential campaigns. You're not the first guy claiming that and I have no idea how this legend came to be
Gnosticism is far more intelligible to someone from an oriental background than Christianity due to some similarities.
I have no idea how this legend came to be
It's usually either copium, or deliberate efforts to engage in historical revisionism and pretend that the 'pure Anon Babble' was a website full of anarchist hackers wearing guy fawkes mask debating Engels.