Born-Again Christian rants against DMC
I'm not trying offend any Christians or Catholics. Everyone has a right to beleive in whatever they want and I respect that but...
A year ago, when I first played DMC 3, my brother-in-law visted my family from out of state. He was watching my cousins and I as we played mission 15 for the first time. In the beginning of that stage dante has his first encounter with the Fallen (twisted angels).
We did not read the enmemy files at this point so we had no idea who the Fallen were. My neice kept shouting "An angel...a friggin angel!" She's getting her butt whooped by the fallen so I tell her to Devil Trigger.
At that point my brother-in-law gets really pissed off and starts asking me questions about DMC like "Where is God?" and "Why are you killing Angels?" We tried explaining to him that most japanese stories don't delve too closely with Heaven/angels and how its mostly demon mythology (or so we think)
We tell him that Dante is half-man, half-demon and he calls it "disgusting" ranting that Demons come from the dark bowels of hell and that humans mating with demons is beastiality. We then tell him that Sparda was a demon knight who saved humanity and he blasts us telling us that Satan's minions have no souls. For the next twenty minutes he kept quoting bible verses about Satan and his plans for humanity.
After watching Dante devil trigger and fight using his guns and swords my brother-in-law tells us that this game promotes devil worship and that it was inspired by satan.
Lol, Years ago, he told us that Resident Evil was made by the devil and that it was brainwashing us into wanting to become flesh-eating satan worshippers. I'm like "Look at the friggin game, we're killing zombies not worshipping with them!"
My brother-in-law just doesn't understand that this is a work of fiction that dabbles in the occult. But it does raise some interesting questions.
If the Fallen were once peaceful angels, then where does Heaven stand in Dante's quest to crush Mundus' minions? What do you guys think about Heaven in the DMC universe?