Is new Bioware agaisnt christianity?

Interesting that this thread is still alive. I was sure everyone would have eaten each other alive already.

Not real ones. So there's no real angle to bitch and moan about it.

But DA attracts a different crowd of bitching and moaning. Of course self declared anti SJW warriors are attracted as well as politcial nutjobs. The nuttiest thing I had to read concerning DAI was something about feeding and clothing refugees was a socialist agenda. Problem is, it wasn't meant as satire.

Sean Carroll is a stud. His blog is really good too, and he's usually pretty active replying and interacting with commentors (or at least he used to be). 

I get where your coming from OP.  I see where you might think Bioware is slighting Christianity.  Now days its seems as though it's constantly under attack.  As much as I dislike MEA I think they handled it alright without getting to specific for any religion which could be conceived as they are catering to atheists.  The dialog choice when talking with Suvi is yes, you believe in God or No, you don't.  However, like most of the game, what he/she actually says is a bit cryptic.  The dialog is like that throughout the game.  One of my biggest complaints  about this game is the writing.

Maybe "attack" in this context is more along the lines of Paul Anka's avenue of attack against the billboards.

Ok, I haven't read the whole thread, and I can't be assed to read the last 10 pages, but this is such a load of crock it isn't funny. OP is completely missing the point of that scene.

In no way does Ryder admit that God is finite and mortal there. Ryder was telling Suvi that this doesn't change anything. There's still no proof for or against a God, so her faith doesn't need to change. Suvi then says the line about deluding herself, which in a way is what faith is. It's a belief in something that's unprovable. "Deluding" is perhaps the wrong word there, since it means to trick, to fool, to deceive, but faith is essentially CHOOSING to believe something when there's no evidence to support it.

Suvi had a crisis of faith, and questioned her beliefs. In the end, she realized that she'd hafta choose to continue believing in the absence of evidence, and she finds comfort in the fact that she's questioned, had doubts, but is choosing to believe anyway.

I'm a religious person, subscribing more-or-less to Christian ideals, but there are things about Christianity (as it is formally worshiped) that I question and have doubts about. I choose to believe how I believe. I've rationally looked at things, and there is a part of me that just cannot accept that there isn't a God. I know, 100% for certain, that I'll never be able to prove my beliefs, and since I cannot do so, I'll never try to force or convince someone else to believe how I do (I'll talk about it gladly to those who want to though!) I take the same sort of comfort in knowing that my beliefs were not accepted blindly because I was told to think this way. Instead, I came to these beliefs through questioning, through doubts, and through thinking critically about certain aspects of things. So I understand exactly what Suvi was saying here, and it wasn't that God is definitely finite, mortal and fallible. That was her questioning her beliefs, until she decided to believe in an infinite, immortal, infallible Creator anyway.

None of this would be a problem if you heathens worship our true lord The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Which really isn't a bad thing for those topics.

I assume this is supposed to be a criticism against BioWare for playing it safe, but this is certainly an odd list. Like, why the frak would religion be the main focus in a space opera setting where zero supernatural phenomena takes place? Why would Trump matter hundreds of years in the future (at least before his fuckery reaches critical mass)? 

I will say, it's quite something to think that representing only one gender or orientation would now be considered risky. What a time to be alive. 

I said that many pages ago....and then a derailed this topic many pages ago....