(07-18-2015, 01:02 AM)Vachir Crimsonborn Wrote: Have you guys seen the movie "Constantine" with Keanu Reeves?
In that there's a scene where Constantine talks to the half-angel Gabriel, trying to bargain a way into Heaven (he is a suicide survivor which means he is doomed to go to Hell). There's a line perfectly describing how an "Aetheist", or rather, a non-believer could work in Eorzea.
Constantine asks what God wants and Gabriel says "The usual; self-sacrifice, belief...", to which Constantine says "I believe, for Christ's sake." where Gabriel responds "No, you know. There's a difference. You've seen it.".
Same could apply to "Aetheists" in Eorzea. They know about the Twelve and their existence. But they don't believe in them. They don't worship them. They might even think the world would be better without them. They are non-believers, as it were. They know, but they don't believe... if that makes sense.
I'm going to sit on my hands and not type the rant that I want to type about the holes, contradictions, and terrible theology in the Constantine movie. Â Because no one wants that.
Lack of belief in the face of irrefutable proof is almost as religious/ritualistic as belief itself. Â Because you're refusing to believe something despite having irrefutable proof that it exists.
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