Would you also admonish a recently recovered alcoholic for not wanting to enter a bar? Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah are no places for me.
When video games
Caleb Howard
Sebastian Gonzalez
If you're trying to recover from your sinful past, then recover. Fuga mundi is good, but it's not good to run forever. This is what monks and priests do when they feel too burdened by their responsibility in the world, and they will go back when they feel spiritually fresh and mentally prepared to do their work. Christians can't live in a vacuum echo chamber because God wants them to love one another as God has loved them. Christ Has loved every sinner with all his heart, mind, and soul.
Camden Anderson
are there any games which present Christianity in a positive light?
Jack Diaz
Not really. No triple-A games, anyway. There are some independent games like Invisible Enemies specifically designed as Christian themes games; but, for the most part, it's just people memeing things like Link bowing at a cross - even though there is literally nothing like that in the games. Most video games are based in pagan legends or demonology.
Lucas Garcia
That was an official early picture, and the early games had the word "bible" in it.
David Kelly
Castlevania?
Justin Morris
Castlevania, well I guess so. at least it's neutral. Cant say that about fedora tipping cuck Warren Ellis, writer of the netflix castlevania anime.
Carter Green
That doesn't mean much. It was called "Bible" because, to the Japanese, it would be foreign and exotic. It's no different than Americans giving their characters Japanese names that seem exotic to us, but are normal nothings to the Japanese. Link was never a "Christian" and never bowed to a cross. Don't insert your own head canon into something the developers never intended.
Jaxson Butler
It is an official picture…The picture of Link where he bows to the Cross with Jesus-Christ and (I assume) the statue of the Virgin Mary are Official…But they are not canon anymore.
Read here.
zelda.gamepedia.com
" Unusually, the Christian Cross also made an appearance in a piece of artwork of A Link in the Past created for the official Japanese Player's Guide, depicting Link kneeling in front of the crucifix, a Cross with the representation of Jesus' body, in prayer. While its canon status is very questionable, it is one of the stronger references to Christianity in The Legend of Zelda series and also seems to suggest that Link may have been portrayed as a Christian. "
This saga has a lot of Pagan symbols and a lot of Christian symbols, either implicitly or explicitly. There is probably some kind of Japanese religion thrown in it too. The fact is that The Legend of Zelda is clearly inspired by Germany and it takes inspiration in both paganism and Christianity.
And I mean…There are Churches and cathedrals in this Saga, and European medieval infrastructure, you can't say that they don't inspired heavily from Christianity. It's obviously not explicitly Christian but it has a lot of Christian symbols.
Just watch the end of OOT here in the Temple of Time, with the Bell's sound…
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And you could also make the argument that the Triforce could be some representation of the Logos, order of the universe, by it being the trinity of "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit", which might be a symbol that portrays the spirit of the Cross.
Of course, all of this is never explicitly said in the game, in the contrary, but the symbolism is there, and it even says that the TriForce is the Order of the Universe (the Logos).
So yeah, it's not exclusively christian, there are also pagan stuff and other asian religions I'm sure, but since it's inspired by Europe Germany, you can be sure that Christianity has a main influence.
Cameron Diaz
That's an official picture? It looks like really, really bad fanart from some place like dA.