Why does this turn up in anime so often? It's seldom referenced in the West

>It's seldom referenced in the West.
It's essentially impossible to study Western Lit without comprehensive knowledge of the Bible because it's such a massive influence on almost every Western work in existence

Well because Japan thinks Christianity is mysterious (as it should be, fuck Protestantism) and cool. While the west, thanks to the Reformation and other reform movements making Christianity bland and "modern" have lost it's appeal, and with marxists continuously trying to uproot traditional Western values that are a biproduct of Christianity, Christianity is now thought of as lame even outright evil.

Let the Japs enjoy their take on Christianity, it's not like you give a shit about it.

How many references to the spear can you even name that aren't NGE?

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>what is the filename

newfags

answer the question

>post a painting of one of the most important scenes in human history
>only mention the tiny detail you want to discuss in the filename
You're an idiot and also

answer the question

Keanu Reeves played the lead in an entire movie about it. It was a pretty good flick even if the comic book fags hated it.

And now the thread dies because OP can't come up with a single fucking example, beautiful

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>what is something that japs don't know but seems mysterious and deep that we can put in to make our anime cool
>philosophy!
>the bible!
>hebrew letters in magic!
>schredinger's cat!

highschool dxd
fullmetal alchemist
overlord

to name a few

you can concede and admit retardation at any point

>it happens so often that I can only cite 3 examples out of 10k anime series
did it take you so long to read the wiki article?

>he uses an ecchi series as an example

>name some examples
>W-WAIT YOU DIDNT NAME ENOUGH

Zig Forums intellectuals at it again

>Wooow it happens so often
>here's uh...3 examples that I copied off from wiki

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OP probably didn't grow up in one of the 50%-75% of USA households that consider themselves practicing Christians. The piercing of Christ and the Bible at large were so influential on language and culture that they're referenced literally everywhere, and if you've read/studied the Old or New Testament it's retarded how few movies/shows/songs don't actually reference something or other from the Bible. The Bible is callbacked so much that content creators probably don't even realize they're referencing it.

For example, Longinus himself has a pop-culture reference list on Wikipedia that you can all look up, despite Longinus never even fucking being MENTIONED by name in the Old or New Testament. He shows up in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, which isn't even considered canon by most, and still gets pop cultured.

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It was in FMA?

every now and then I somehow forget this board is overflowing with literal children and then threads like this are made

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stop bullying the nyaggers

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everyone else is just doing it because eva did it