You claim subjectivity, but you consider anyone who disagrees with your stance wrong, and by doing so, you have moved to objectivity. Nothing you say changes that.
The Army of the Light consists of volunteers. That sounds like consent to me.
It can depend on the religion, but yes. And the hands of the non-religious are not clean either. Stalin. Zedong. Mussolini. Pot. Kim. Castro… Western media focuses on Hitler so much cos they don’t want to acknowledge leftist, atheist and/or communist tyrants.
How many movies have the Third Reich as enemies vs movies where the Soviets or Khmer Rouge are enemies?
Castro was a Catholic. He had issues with the polticial institution of the Vatican but reconciled with them later in life. Mussolini was lauded by Pope Pius XI,who saw Mussolini as a man “sent by Providence” and fascism as a vehicle of “moral regeneration.”
Hitler was famous for including Atheists as one of the groups that had no place in the German society he envisaged and maintained close relations with the Catholic Church.
Citation needed on Castro. The others were still atheists. Mussolini was an avowed atheist who tried to exploit the Catholic Church when he realized he couldn’t crush it. The Pope at the time - your whataboutism aside - wrongfully taking advantage of Mussolini’s boons doesn’t justify or excuse Mussolini - and Mussolini was still as “Christian” as Richard Dawkins , but had a body count.
Irrelevant, that last part… I can name quite a few God-fearing Christians who are pretty steeped in blood themselves.
I can’t post links but I found what I needed by Googling and checking Wikipedia. The Church marching hand in hand with genocide has been a thing since the Crusades.
Castro was born a Roman Catholic and educated by Jesuit Priests. This is Cuba we’re talking about, after all.
Nevertheless, light-using undead priests canonically exist. Though I agree that it would be cool if they didn’t just forget about the forgotten shadow. (Insert joke about the forgotten shadow here!)
Those generally aren’t the people who take the rules super seriously and try to enforce them on other people. Which is where the majority of chaffing with religion happens.
I’d wager someone who exclusively knew religious people who were Sunday Christians would have a better overall opinion on religious people.
I am not so sure Metzen is as big a fan of moral relativism as Danuser was, rather he seems to like Light = Good, and Void = Bad as he originally wrote it. There are a few extreme examples like the scarlets, but they tend to be seen as abusing the gifts of the Light by everyone else.
Shadow wasn’t bad in the original lore. We had examples of good shadow priests like the Auchenai and more neutral shadow priests like the Cult of Forgotten Shadow.
There was a duality to Light and Shadow that was a pretty central part to both Draenei and Naaru that doesn’t really exist anymore.
Likewise, Light wasn’t always good as seen in the Scarlet Crusade and it could also be forcibly used like the Blood Knights did.
Legion is what brought in the shadow is always evil and shadow priests are insane old god worshiping cultists stuff.
Religion in WoW was a lot more diverse in the past than just simple Light good, Shadow bad, dichotomy.
I always enjoyed the older lore about shadow and light, and how they were basically two sides of the same coin. But both could be used for good or for ill.
In WotLK the cosmic forces had not yet been pulled apart. Arcane, Void, Fel, and Death were kind of all one big soup of Legally Distinct but Actually Warhammer’s winds of magic.
Light was sort of DnD divine magic and had not yet entirely had its WC2 era Abrahamic elements purged from it.
, but had a body count.