>Error: field too longShitty character limit. I thought it was 5000 but I guess not.
>>132863044>>132863129First I'll apologize and say that I was not specific enough in my first post. Writing this out I realize it's not Christianity or references to it that bother me, it's the folks who see a simple Christ allegory and jump on, taking it at face value. There's a lot of other stuff going on in the series, and people who are dismissive of it are missing out on lots of interesting things.
I'm not accusing anyone in this thread of that, but it's been a very long time since I've seen a Madoka thread that didn't start off with instant shitposting (I'm surprised with an OP like this that we didn't here), so I'm taking the chance to hopefully discuss things like it.
Now for some hot opinions:
>You'd have a point if Homura's worship of Madoka wasn't flat out of Christian Mythology.I think the idea of obsessing over someone or something to the extent that Homura does isn't unique to Christianity. She doesn't start out that way either, we see her slip further and further in as events progress.
>Oh and Kyouko being a Lasped Catholic who regains her faith.Kyouko and her family's Catholicism (or similar faith; it's not explicit) is part of her character arc, and motivations for same, but that's not quite the kind of thing I was talking about. It helps to show her own story, but it's not really used in a big way "oh look she lost her path but now she's back, just like ~~~ from the Bible" or anything. In other words, it uses Christianity, it's not meant to be an allegory for it. I'm having trouble articulating this point.
>And in Rebellion Madoka literally spreading her arms like Jesus on the cross.You're right, Rebellion upped the Christian symbolism by quite a bit. I wonder how much of that was Gen's and how much was Shinbo / Inu Curry's idea.
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