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Is it considered correct form to remove these kinds of links? I'm about out of patience for people potholing RuleOfThree because they've made the same joke three times in their own example, when it doesn't appear at all in the work they're supposed to be citing.
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Is it considered correct form to remove these kinds of links? I\'m about out of patience for people potholing RuleOfThree because they\'ve made the same joke three times in their own example, when it doesn\'t appear at all in the work they\'re supposed to be citing, but I don\'t want to begin culling them if this is something that requires group consensus first.
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As for the second question, no I was not talking about the StrawNihilist, I was talking about TheFundamentalist (as specified on the page for the latter trope, atheists can be fundamentalist about atheism; that generated quite an argument on that trope's discussion page, which led to the consensus that can be so followed by an edit lock).
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As for the second question, no I was not talking about the StrawNihilist, I was talking about TheFundamentalist (as specified on the page for the latter trope, atheists can be fundamentalist about atheism; that generated quite an argument on that trope\'s discussion page, which led to the consensus that can be so followed by an edit lock).
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One problem is that the kett's Exaltation process is one they worship, and have built something around it resembling a religion which has imagery and titles lifted from real-life religions. You said
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One problem is that the kett\'s Exaltation process is one they worship, and have built something around it resembling a religion which has imagery and titles lifted from real-life religions. You said \"If they just happened to say anti-religious things, I wouldn\'t assume that they were an attempt to represent all atheists\", my suspicions arose from more than what you described. Not only do they say religious things, they have titles directly lifted from a real-life religion, let alone mine. If the writers had lifted titles from Islam rather than Christianity, I would still be leery of the choice and the writers\' intentions and think that\'s rude, though I would be less offended.
I didn\'t mind Dragon Age, because, while there were anti-religious characters (such as Morrigan and Avernus), they weren\'t portrayed as right (even if Morrigan sometimes had a point, such as the cruel treatment of mages... but that\'s no excuse to smear them as a whole. Avernus\' anti-religious sentiments were shown for what they are; just like a career criminal hating the police), the Chantry (Dragon Age version of Christianity) wasn\'t portrayed universally negative like the kett and their Exaltation are and there were positive religious characters (Leliana and Wynne come to mind).
If the kett\'s motives were more subtly portrayed, the kett weren\'t blatantly villainous [[note]] [[CardCarryingVillain the kett seem to have every atrocity under their belt]] besides sex offences; while the geth were similarly portrayed in the first game it was subtle. I didn\'t see any geth units or characters called Vicars or Cardinals despite them worshiping Sovereign as a god. There weren\'t geth running death camps in-game or batarians torturing people in-game - even among Balak\'s anti-human terrorists. [[/note]], didn\'t have titles directly lifted from Christianity and the Archon didn\'t have angel imagery, I wouldn\'t have taken issue with the kett.
P.S While there are good things about the game, there a lot I don\'t like about it, but other tropers have already raised those issues here.
I didn\'t mind Dragon Age, because, while there were anti-religious characters (such as Morrigan and Avernus), they weren\'t portrayed as right (even if Morrigan sometimes had a point, such as the cruel treatment of mages... but that\'s no excuse to smear them as a whole. Avernus\' anti-religious sentiments were shown for what they are; just like a career criminal hating the police), the Chantry (Dragon Age version of Christianity) wasn\'t portrayed universally negative like the kett and their Exaltation are and there were positive religious characters (Leliana and Wynne come to mind).
If the kett\'s motives were more subtly portrayed, the kett weren\'t blatantly villainous [[note]] [[CardCarryingVillain the kett seem to have every atrocity under their belt]] besides sex offences; while the geth were similarly portrayed in the first game it was subtle. I didn\'t see any geth units or characters called Vicars or Cardinals despite them worshiping Sovereign as a god. There weren\'t geth running death camps in-game or batarians torturing people in-game - even among Balak\'s anti-human terrorists. [[/note]], didn\'t have titles directly lifted from Christianity and the Archon didn\'t have angel imagery, I wouldn\'t have taken issue with the kett.
P.S While there are good things about the game, there a lot I don\'t like about it, but other tropers have already raised those issues here.
