Quote Originally Posted by shion View Post
No, don't just blindly believe in something. I'm Catholic, but that doesn't mean I agree with everything the Catholic Church does just because it's Catholic. Sure I believe a lot of it (I am Catholic) but at a certain point people need to be able to question things and think for themselves. One of the things pointed out a few times in game when Tidus asks why things are a certain way, a few people tell him they haven't thought about it. It just is. I think the game teaches you to think and wonder and question things, which is a good lesson in my opinion.
As another Catholic, I'll agree (I honestly can't believe there's as many as two of us here!) It was just a joke. I think the game has worse flaws, but it still was not subtle about being anti-organized religion. It was kind of disrespectful in that regard. At one point I was under the impression that they tried, through Tidus, to push the idea that the ideas of sacrifice and atonement are inherently bad. Thankfully, this is Yuna's story, and in the end, she gets to find the balance between sacrifice/devotion and reason. But the church itself is still irredeemably evil here. I kind of feel many other games (FFTactics, Xenogears) handled it way better, showing actually well-meaning individuals within their organized religions who keep believing in their respectove denominations till the end, with some important people being really corrupt, which is sadly often the case in real life, but that actually makes those games more fascinating, IMO, since just making the religion evil seems cheap.

Anyway, I get where you're coming from, but it would have been better without the evil space whale and that the evil church says it's all our fault