I didn't mean to offend anybody, and I hope I didn't. I just meant that I could easily let my son play the game and explain to him that he should question things and use his brain instead of blindly following anything really. It's also easy to explain to him that this is a game, it's exaggerating for effect (not necessarily effectively) and that it doesn't mean everyting the Church does is wrong. At the end of the day, Final Fantasy X is fiction and we can learn certain things from it, but it's not reality. It doesn't portray how organized religion is exactly. And I would expect him to question and wonder about that too. Heck I expect him to question and wonder about me saying all of this.

Anyways, yes, Final Fantasy X does take it a bit far with the whole everything the Church/Yevon does is wrong and hypocritical, but no, even as religious as I am, I have no problem letting him play it because he can take a lesson from it and it's also just an enjoyable game. If I can teach him about fiction vs reality then I feel pretty safe about letting him play games/movies/tv shows that aren't the most child friendly. I would actually rather he be exposed to it while I'm around so I can discuss things with him, explain why certain things portrayed aren't acceptable in real life or even realistic, and answer his questions should he have them.