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Author: nitrokitty

Jun 12th 2012 at 1:40:58 AM

^ I like the hypocrisy angle. Also, consider that some evil characters may follow a religion strictly (barring a ReligionOfEvil of course) as some sort of selfish attempt at "redeeming their souls" or some such. For example, they might think that even though they go around kicking puppies all day, they're still a "righteous soul" in the eyes of the Lord, so it's fine. Naturally, this is hypocrisy of the highest order, and serves to make the character look worse. Nothing's nastier than someone who goes around doing evil deeds, then spends Sundays praising love, friendship, and devotion.

And for those who don't understand where the secularists in this argument are coming from, let me try to put it in perspective. The title "Religious But Evil" implies that the default state of religion is goodness and virtue, and therefore the lack of religion is non-virtuous and bad. This may seem like a stretch to you, but it's a VERY common stealth prejudice attitude against secularists, hence the UnfortunateImplications.