Are Final Fantasy game anti-religious?

[Vivisteiner]

FFXII also had the Occuria, who were God like figures which were effectively corrupt/ruthless. FFIX and FFVIII really had no mention of religion. FFIX deals a lot with philosphy though, life and death. It had the cycle of souls and all that. I found it interesting that there was no mention of religion in the whole game.

Prayer often works in FF as Avarice-ness mentioned earlier. You pray to the summons in practically every game. But then summons are observable entities.

Maybe FFT and FFX were anti-religous, but if you ask me, FFX was just the gospel in a video game.

But I thought the gospel was boring...

What is FFX-2 then?


Anyway, I think you'll find that FFIX is the true religious 'text'. It chroncicles the ascension of Steiner into heaven where he sits on the right hand side of Beatrix, the father almighty.

[Gilthanes]

technically the early Final Fantasys could be considered alot more religious than we take them for. Not christianity though. Most of the early Final Fantasies, and hell even IX, revolve around a balance of the elements of nature (and the crystals that represent them). Thats a very basic part of the Shinto religion which is part of Japans culture.

FFI, III, IV, V, IX all involve some kind of balance of nature, elements and crystals, and to some extent parts of FVIIs ideals fit into Shinto as well (living as one with the planet type thing)

[Vivisteiner]

^You could say thats more of a philosophy than a religion. Apart from it mentions the planets life force and stuff like that, but its factual - Iifa tree, instead of being an unfounded belief.


But yeah, it does have some ideological similarities with Shinto, which isnt at all suprising.

[NeoCracker]

Of course FF is anti-religion. Why, after playing just one game I burned the Local Church. The message of FF is just that powerful.

[Jessweeee♪]

I wouldn't say so...though FFX did recieve some criticism from some religious groups

[toad626]

No, no, no, far from it in fact. 7 is a perfect. There is so much Buddhism mixed in there. You'd never know it unless you studied it. 10 reminded me a lot of how a church can get too much power and control and rule the world instead of helping people live a better life. The Catholic church had time in history where it was operated like that. 10 reminded me a lot of that history in fact.

[Tabris]

I wouldn't say that FF was anti-religion, but X was definitly anti organized religion. Apart from the organized religion, X (and most other FFs that I know off) is filled religious ideas of dead, unsent, Lifestream, Pyreflies, Gaia etc.