ahhh, yes well FF8 is not religious itself, but it contains religious dogma...and this is what we are really interested in. It is fair to say that FF10s actual story revolved around religion, but it tended to criticize religion as some sort of "left over" trying to maintain itself in the modern era. FF8's religious references go very deep and represent how religion should work in society... i.e not a conspiring authority like in 10, but more as a tool to realise how symbolic events and people are...FF8 does this brilliantly