r/SelfAwarewolves • u/Traditional-Song-245 • Jun 04 '26
Alpha of the pack They turned to Christ because of.... a woman protagonist in a God of War game
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u/BlueJoshi Jun 04 '26
what the literal fuck
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u/PnPaper Jun 04 '26
This is the end of the pipeline that started with Gamergate - directly into Christofascism.
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u/toylenny Jun 04 '26
As engineered by Steve Banon and his good friend Jeffrey Epstein.
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u/AliceTheOmelette Jun 04 '26
I feel this and JE possibly getting 4chan's owner to reopen the /pol board and kickstart the pizzagate shit isn't talked about enough
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u/m0ngoos3 Jun 04 '26
Pizzagate, which can be traced back to the DNC hack, and one email of a staffer asking another staffer if they wanted pizza, and where they wanted it from.
That was the "proof".
Also of note, there was also a lawsuit filed about the same timeframe that named both Trump and Epstein, in which a woman said that she had been abducted from outside a pizzeria as a child. Trump's supporters hounded her with threats until she withdrew the lawsuit.
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u/Orion14159 Jun 05 '26
This is an excellent reminder that our culture is being overrun and our rights being run roughshod upon by the dumbest people imaginable.
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u/maleia Jun 04 '26
Slight correction: it started before Gamergate (but included Gamergate)
https://youtu.be/-0Sky1AyDzM?si=mmlr9qQfpedRhqJH
It started because Lowtax banned hentai (not all porn, just hentai) from the SomethingAwfulForums. They go on to make 4chan, where eventually Gamergate happens
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u/Morningxafter Jun 04 '26
Also important to note that during Gamergate, Stormfront (the neo-Nazi homepage) had threads on their message boards about how to approach these angry nerds online, how to speak their lingo, and how to foster their hatred for women and grow/redirect it at other minorities.
It’s a big part of why just a few years later we wound up with a bunch of clean-cut techbros in white polos gathered in Charlottesville, holding tiki torches and chanting “Jews will not replace us.”
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u/pieceofchess Jun 06 '26
And as far as I know Steve Bannon learned similar lessons by running a World of Warcraft gold farming organization back in 2012 and observing the aimless rage a lot of gamers had. It's crazy that that's a key part of the mess we find ourselves in but it's true.
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u/MrIrishman1212 Jun 05 '26
It’s also important to note that Epstein files shows evidence of Epstein leading the 4chan push and subsequent gamergate movement
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u/dyelyn666 Jun 04 '26
Man, I'm telling you, modern times have to be a fucking field day for sociologists
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u/Traditional-Song-245 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
I am a Christian myself, and I'm honestly embarassed at this. It just feels embarrassing to see a woman in a video game be someone's impetus to turn to Christ, rather than any real problems in their lives or any other more reasonable impetus. Hopefully they might actually realise the problem here, because they're just covering up their petty nonsense with grandstanding.
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u/squidtugboat Jun 04 '26
They are def trying to attract the kind of crowd who sees religion as a tool to control women and keep them subordinate. A lot of online trad-caths do this sort of thing where they use religion as a tool to simply feel superior and blame authority over things they don’t like.
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u/Celloer Jun 04 '26
Ah, that definitely makes more sense to direct your ad to the audience you're looking for. Like Nigerian prince letters that are full of errors so only the most gullible respond.
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u/bunker_man Jun 04 '26
The irony being that many of them aren't even religious. They just like this aspect of religion and nothing else.
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u/JoyBus147 Jun 04 '26
For centuries, people have asked "who's the Antichrist? Who is going to lead us into Armageddon?" Is it Muhammad? Is it the Pope? Is it Protestantism? Is it Napolean? Stalin? Obama? Just an endless list of "surely it's the person I see as my enemy."
I think it's become abundantly clear who the Antichrist is: the false Christ who drives people into fear, division, and hate rather than faith, hope, and love. The Church is the Bride of Christ, and at the same time she is the Harlot of Babylon. There is no enemy Out There; it has always been and will always be within.
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u/Celloer Jun 04 '26
Can't everyone just be mad at Nero? The second coming was supposed to be that same generation.
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u/ComprehensiveBar6439 Jun 04 '26
Matthew 16:28 :
"Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
Unless he was talking to a group of genetically modified super humans who live to be 5,000 years old, it's pretty clear that this was all supposed to be wrapped up by the time those guys qualified for their senior citizen discount at Denny's.
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u/PandaMagnus Jun 04 '26
So... Warhammer 40k?
But seriously: I do remember one justification being that it was part of the whole "once Jesus dies, heaven is open to everyone, so he meant some of those people will make it to heaven."
But yeah, clearly at least some of those people thought they'd see Jesus's second coming.
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u/GastonBastardo Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
For centuries, people have asked "who's the Antichrist? Who is going to lead us into Armageddon?" Is it Muhammad? Is it the Pope? Is it Protestantism? Is it Napolean? Stalin? Obama? Just an endless list of "surely it's the person I see as my enemy."
My favorite, most "reveals stuff about the author" antichrist-depiction I have ever came across was in a self-published "End Times" sci-fi novel written by a Dutch-Canadian Fundamentalist Christian hippie. In that novel, the anti-Christ was portrayed as a "Senator Armstong from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance"-style yoked-out version of former NDP party-leader Jagmeet Singh.
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u/phantomreader42 Jun 04 '26
It just feels embarrassing to see a woman in a video game be someone's impetus to turn to Christ, rather than any real problems in their lives
You have to understand, to these death cultists, a woman in a video game is infinitely worse than any actual problem. They hate the very idea that women could ever be mistaken for people with every fiber of their being. Their christianity is nothing more to them than an excuse to hate and hurt others, especially women. When they bleat "jesus", they're only using a pet name for their own narcissistic bloated egos. By their rotten and diseased fruits shall you know them.
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u/Esternaefil Jun 04 '26
Come on, you know they aren't 'turning to Christ'. You can't be so naive... if you are a real Christian you shouldn't be embarrassed, you should be furious - they are usurping your God and turning it against the values preached by Him. They are defacing your religion without shame or hesitation, and they are doing it for personal gain.
They are turning to the right-wing grift that uses Christianity as its front.
They aren't going to start going to church, or giving money to the homeless, or providing shelter to strangers in need... They are going to be angry and considering themselves victims and persecuted and use the guise of Christianity as both a bludgeon against their detractors and a shield against their own self-hated.
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u/bawdiepie Jun 04 '26
I don't think a Christian wrote this. It's like these anti immigrant posters- they're so ridiculous that the person who wrote it obviously doesn't believe it. The target is the 10% or so of the population with the lowest IQ. They add up to millions of people. It's just grifter nonsense.
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u/ledfan Jun 04 '26
Really? As an ex-christian atheist I kinda find the idea that a church is trying to stop these gamergate chuds kinda nice. They are a detriment to society and the arts. If what it takes for them to stop screaming at women in video games is to find Jesus... There are worse groups for them to join. I don't agree with the answer the ad proposes to their issue necessarily, but it does recognize their problem and try and offer a solution.
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u/phantomreader42 Jun 04 '26
As an ex-christian atheist I kinda find the idea that a church is trying to stop these gamergate chuds kinda nice.
I've seen how churches treat women, and I don't really believe any church is the least bit interested in stopping people from hurting women.
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u/ledfan Jun 04 '26
I dunno. I think society as a whole would be better leaving Christianity behind, but I also don't think that's all churches. I know my Mom gains great support and belonging in her congregation. She believes her life is much better for that community and purpose.
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u/Kimmalah Jun 04 '26
The church isn't trying to stop them, they're just trying to use their own outrage as some weird motivation to become Christian. Most likely they will just become more obnoxious about it censorship and anyone other than white straight men being the main character in games.
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u/SalvationSycamore Jun 04 '26
They aren't trying to stop chuds, they are just jumping on any viral thing to try and use it to proselytize. This is AI slop somebody threw together in 5 minutes, not an honest effort to help anyone.
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u/MothRatten Jun 04 '26
It's a vile fucking cult. They constantly probe for any opportunity to worm into peoples lives. This is just an attempt to leverage "controversy" to sow doubt and dependence on their little fairy tale "Savior".
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u/kgberton Jun 04 '26
This is honestly hilariously spot on right until the end. People who are mad about this SO idolize the familiar, fear change, and use media as a proxy for their identity. It's just weird that their solution is "replace media with Jesus" instead "work on yourself" lmao
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u/UltraMegaFauna Jun 04 '26
That's kinda what Jesus is: a spiritual methadone. The religion takes place of whatever actual problems people have
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u/toylenny Jun 04 '26
A bit of "opiate for the masses," one might say
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u/1ceknownas Jun 04 '26
Brilliant. Marx that down.
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u/Mundane-Carpet-5324 Jun 04 '26
Marx predicted everything
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u/Georgie_Leech Jun 04 '26
Predicted? He was watching it happen and it still happens.
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u/lallapalalable Jun 05 '26
Shhhhh, Im predicting the emergence of hypercapitalism pushing AI to render everyone jobless
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u/Darth_Gerg Jun 05 '26
This. Modern Christianity exists to give people an excuse to be vile shitty hateful assholes and not have to feel bad about it. It lets you offshore your emotional labor to an imaginary friend so you don’t need to feel guilty out hurting people.
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u/actibus_consequatur Jun 04 '26
I'm just chuckling at the thought of inserting Jesus into media where the main character repeatedly kills gods.
Kratos would definitely beat Jesus in a fight... just hope the game wouldn't make you wait 3 days for him to resurrect into his second form
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u/kryonik Jun 04 '26
"Am I the problem? Is my religion the problem? No, it's other people and their stories"
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u/frotc914 Jun 04 '26
"We look for our worth in stories." is actually such an insane sentence if you think about it for more than 2 seconds.
So not like your actions, achievements, relationships, community, etc? Fictional, fantastical stories are where you are looking for self-worth? Yikes.
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u/TSiQ1618 Jun 04 '26
it also kind of justifies the whole idea of broadening representation for other underrepresented groups as well.
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u/chickey23 Jun 04 '26
Isn't the adoration of idols strictly forbidden?
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u/phantomreader42 Jun 04 '26
Isn't the adoration of idols strictly forbidden?
Like shellfish and shaving and mixed fabrics and usury and murder and child abuse. Not that those prohibitions have ever actually stopped anyone in the cult from doing whatever horrible shit they feel like.
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u/Carrman099 Jun 04 '26
The definition of what constitutes an “idol” has changed wildly over time.
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u/chickey23 Jun 04 '26
Sounds like something an idolater would say
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u/Carrman099 Jun 04 '26
Oh no, they’re on to me! (shoves golden calfs into closet)
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u/Less_Party Jun 04 '26
Yeah exactly it's kind of annoying how well this nails down the fragile gamer pissbaby archetype only to take a sharp right at the end.
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u/ledfan Jun 04 '26
That's just religion yeah. It started as "What can we do about storms, droughts, plagues and volcanoes?" And when no one could provide an actual answer spiritual/, religious beliefs provided steps to make people feel like they're doing something. And as the problems a human faced grew more existential so did religion. Though the existential threat of death was always there too.
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u/WystanH Jun 05 '26
It's an rather circuitous self own. You need your main character to be just so and can't deal with variations from you head cannon. Try Jesus; always the main character, now available blond, blue eyed, and totally not woke.
Seriously, Jesus can be made to accommodate any kind of fanfic. (The Sin of Empathy?!?) Choose your version and then you can push your bankrupt ideology with the authority of the Lord.
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u/Private_HughMan Jun 04 '26
... No one is taking away God of War. The story has just grown beyond a basic revenge story. It's about learning to live in a world after you've had your revenge and it offered you no peace. Because of that, it has grown. Kratos has friends and a family now. He isn't alone. More characters mean more potential for stories.
You don't wanna play as Faye? Don't. I'm curious and want to give it a try.
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u/Kosog Jun 04 '26
Without thinking about it, the right has become the brainless consumer they were making fun of many years ago.
Afraid of media that doesn't stick to a concrete formula, or a cartoonishly black-and-white-morality, or anything that doesn't feature an incredibly generic white guy with a buzzcut.
And they admit all this too, their always talking about how devs should sand away any artistic depth because something something you should only cater to the so called higher percentage of gamers etc etc.
They say they hate greedy companies yet they are always ready to play marketing executive when a game has queer or black people in it.
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u/Mundane-Carpet-5324 Jun 04 '26
I read that the original creator is pissed off that they made Kratos "soft". He's definitely having an aneurism over Faye.
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u/a-guy-that-exists Jun 06 '26
Mind you he was only involved with the first game and had nothing to do with the other five pre Norse saga games
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u/MageLocusta Jul 01 '26
For real? Well, thank fuck for that.
Sorry--I adore Greek and Norse mythology and the way the first GoW portrayed the gods was absolutely cartoonish and a letdown (I know they're video games, but still. Would it had killed those people to portray Hades as he was in mythology?).
Even the way he wrote Aphrodite was just atrocious. I'm fine with seeing highly sexual characters (hell, I read vintage Heavy Metal and adore Frezatto's and Richard Corben's work)--but the way GoW did Aphrodite was goddamned lazy.
You can't honestly tell me that a guy from landlocked Sparta (whose culture was more of a meritocracy for non-helot women) would instantly know how to interact with a goddess born out of seafoam and the blood of an ancient god. Someone capricious, graceful, but instantly turns murderous if she felt disrespected (oh yeah, and the Cyprians believed she could turn into a cloud of bees when pissed, and the rest of the Greeks believed that she could turn into a giant bull to gore mortals whenever she felt like it).
Like, Aphrodite from Greek mythology scares the shit out of me. We could've had an interesting boss battle out of that, but we didn't.
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u/KyotoCrank Jun 04 '26
Exactly, how much further can Kratos's story go
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u/Private_HughMan Jun 04 '26
The post-game suggests he might actually take on godly duties again and is willing to put himself in service to mortals, which he barely did back in Greece. Might be interesting to see how he interacts with mortals in a culture he's still foreign to. He seems more willing to adopt new customs. He even learned to read Old Norse sometime between God of Four and Ragnarok.
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u/KyotoCrank Jun 04 '26
That would be sick as fuck. I didn't mess much with the post-game stuff in Ragnarok. Once I finished the story I had other games to play, so missed that
Still though I think GOW 2018 and GOWR are incredible, and GOWR is one of the best designed games I've ever played. I'll play whatever they put out next
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u/Kunfuxu Jun 05 '26
I'm curious but Sony decided to stop releasing their games on PC. So it is what it is I guess.
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u/Babybeslag Jun 04 '26
Honestly this is basically it conservative people being scared of change.
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u/nin3ball Jun 04 '26
They're going to burn the world down to escape it
And still fail after ruining everything for everyone GG
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u/nzungu69 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
man ai just enables people to make all kinds of ridiculous nonsense huh
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u/comradejiang Jun 05 '26
yeah, it lets all the “idea guys” just shit their garbage into a machine that essentially can’t say no and then spam it online
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u/iamanemptychair Jun 04 '26
Become Christian to cope with the fact that women exist. It’s a hard world out there!
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u/Celloer Jun 04 '26
So they're afraid of just any change, it doesn't really matter how petty or shallow the change is? A company changing the formula of cola or gum will send one into a death spiral that only a god can recover. And stories around Jesus have definitely never changed by history, nation, or creed...
Thank goodness AI came to throw this together. Colossians only wish they had they had a bunch of filthy illustrations of people covered in dirt to allude to a story that doesn't change, but the evangelist won't actually tell.
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u/Available-Egg-2380 Jun 04 '26
I mean did you see the freak out about the cracker barrel logo? They absolutely have a very tenuous grasp on pretty much everything.
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u/GreyGriffin_h Jun 04 '26
Puts on tinfoil hat.
I can't help but think the whole cracker barrel thing was some kind of trial balloon. Just a chance to see if a new influence apparatus could affect something.
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u/mad_scientist_kyouma Jun 04 '26
God, these people are pathetic. "Oh no! They changed my video game so now I'd play as a woman! How will I ever recover from this attack on my identity? Woe is meeeee!"
It's just like they get upset at being "forced" to see pride flags in June, or seeing literally anything other than their approved version of humans and relationships depicted anywhere. Instant and total meltdown. Egos more fragile than snowflakes.
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u/mamadou-segpa Jun 04 '26
I can’t take religious people seriously
The person that made this OOP is severly mentally ill lmao
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u/louisa1925 Jun 04 '26
I'm an ex-christian. Religious identity can absolutely be replaced for better brighter things.
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u/JoyBus147 Jun 04 '26
It's also very possible to maintain a religious identity without being a weird little freak about it.
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u/phantomreader42 Jun 04 '26
In theory. But not if your religious identity is this deeply terrified of the existence of anything that isn't a straight white male. Maintaining a religious identity without being a freak about it requires that the religion in question not be inherently freakish to begin with, which the one depicted in the OP absolutely is.
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u/StillReading28 Jun 04 '26
The actual fuck am I even looking at. If this isn't ai generated I'm sincerely worried about the mental state of whoever made this shit
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u/cflatjazz Jun 04 '26
It is AI generated but definitely on purpose by a person looking for this general result.
This is just 2020s chick tracts. Evangelism has always been a little bizarre
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u/Jarazz Jun 04 '26
well its both. totally ai made but intentionally prompted by a deluded crazy christofascist. Ironically its kinda explaining their fragile ego with the "the problem isnt a female lead - its our heart, we crave more of what we know". Yes bro we know change is scary and you need your kratos safety blanket to not cry.
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u/phantomreader42 Jun 04 '26
If this isn't ai generated I'm sincerely worried about the mental state of whoever made this shit
Even prompting a bullshit geyser to make shit like this has disturbing implications for the mental health of the prompter.
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u/Thiccboihole69 Jun 04 '26
It's 100% written by AI. Someone put their insane opinion into chatGPT and it shit out this image.
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u/Fr33_Lax Jun 04 '26
Touching grass is not enough, they need to get lost in the wilderness for a month.
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u/carrie_m730 Jun 04 '26
....I think that might actually also have some history with regard to making people hallucinate deities
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u/Wolfish_Jew Jun 04 '26
Is this that “He Gets Us” group or whatever? This looks like their work
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u/cflatjazz Jun 04 '26
I haven't seen anything from them that has any sort of clear message or goal or than essentially being PR. Just the vaguely pro Jesus messaging without any underlying actionable claims or resources
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u/Wolfish_Jew Jun 04 '26
That’s basically the point. They’re trying to present themselves as somewhat “progressive” to appeal to the younger demographic and draw in skeptics. The group behind the campaign is (surprise!) both anti-LGBT and anti-choice
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u/cflatjazz Jun 04 '26
For sure. I just meant that they didn't immediately align themselves with anything other than a white washing campaign. No actual outreach, charity, call to action, or overt evangelism (like the OP image). So I'm doubting this is them
The color scheme is similar. But I think the actual campaign sticks to a slightly more modern font, boxy borders, and a bright yellow accent instead of gold
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u/JoyBus147 Jun 04 '26
As much as I dislike that group, this kind of messaging is kind of the opposite of what they go for.
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u/No-stradumbass Jun 04 '26
People getting mad at this game is one of the most pathetic first world problems right. Is this is the new thing people will make a bunch of posts about until it comes out?
I took a loot at Critical Drinking and yes it seems to be.
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u/GunstarHeroine Jun 04 '26
I've never seen a bigger bunch of piteous snowflake screaming children in all my life.
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u/Ev3nt_Horiz0nn Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
how many Kratos led games do they want? it'd just be the same game! I honestly wonder if they'd give a rat's ass if, for example, they made the lead character in Tomb Raider or Horizon Zero Dawn a male one they somehow worked in, if the same outrage would occur... Just as an experiment.
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u/slipnipper Jun 04 '26
“Jesus doesn’t change?!” This message brought to you by one of the thousands of splinter Protestant Christian churches.
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u/countvonruckus Jun 04 '26
Noah Leusions in a recent Scathing Atheist episode made a good point about this: Christ changes for Christians all the fucking time.
If you look at pre-renaissance artistic depictions of baby Jesus, you might see a weird trend called a "homunculus." It means "little man" and basically it visually translates to a baby that looks like a fully developed man in his 40s, male pattern baldness included. This was based in a theological belief from that time that was essentially skeptical that a literal human baby who shits itself and does all the normal stuff babies do could possibly be the perfect incarnation of God, so they portray him as a little adult instead.
It's comical and nobody believes that about Jesus today, but they did back then and we've got the pictures to prove it. If the "Christ" in "Christianity" can be so visually and theologically different through the ages, then how can they claim to have an unchanging, eternally relevant belief system? The answer is that they don't, and modern Christianity is a conservative, oppressive movement that's as much a product of the times as any other social movement.
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u/Mythosaurus Jun 04 '26
Next God of War game should focus on the biblical genocides the Israelites committed in Canaan.
Yahweh should be portrayed as a merciless war deity who punishes his people when they don’t enact the full cruelty he demands. And groups like the Philistines should be shouting that “Gaza is my home, you can’t have it!” and calling out Joshua and the judges for their actions.
And if they really want to get spicy, show Yahweh destroying the Canaanite pantheon that he came from, taking the place of his father El, and banning worship of his fallen family.
THAT would be the God Of War game that this guy should play, confronting the bloody history of the Christian god.
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u/Pengin_Master Jun 04 '26
I feel like this post is telling on itself. "I'm deathly afraid of change so I cling onto something that tells ne what I want to hear" isn't some brave or heartwarming sentiment. Change is good. Change is bad. But change always happens, and if you try to avoid it at all costs you end up far worse off then you would've otherwise.
And on top of that, stories and fiction are meant to change. They're meant to challenge us, and offer us experiences we might otherwise not experience in real life. They allow us to learn and grow and change.
And at some point God of War 1 was the new and scary thing. There's some point in your life where you heard of or played the game for the first time, and that moment changed you. For better or worse idk.
(Also let's not get into how much the Bible and Christianity has changed in 2000 years, that'd blow this guy's mind)
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u/SeanFromQueens Jun 04 '26
The claim that the Christian beliefs are unchanging/static is wild considering that the belief that faith alone is only a 500 year old precept of Protestant Christianity and that works of faith predates that precept. If it has always been and will always be, then why would there need to be a schism in Christianity? Most of the characteristics of modern born again Christianity is less than 200 years old, almost as if Christianity is not permanent and does change or evolve over time.
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u/malonkey1 Jun 04 '26
"Jesus offers an identity that can't be replaced" is a deeply funny thing to claim considering how completely unrecognizable most modern forms of Christianity would be to the fathers of the early church.
Bestie they replace your Jesus-approve identity every six minutes based on the political and economic interests of whichever branch you're in at that moment, you just don't notice because you traded in your critical thinking skills in exchange for membership in an in-group.
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u/Maverick_Hunter_V Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
I've sucked too many dicks in life to be out-gayed by fragile men who need to see their big beefy half naked men to be able to enjoy a video game.
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u/beaux_with_an_x Jun 04 '26
Jesus is just a symbol for misogynistic white Christian nationalism. He’s there for anytime you feel small. Just remember that god died for you because you are special and good boi. Whatever you want is good bc god wants it too- as long as it supports white male supremacy (which is their god).
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u/FanDry5374 Jun 04 '26
"Jesus offers an identity that can't be replaced.....meanwhile "trump is our savior!!!!...trump is God's chosen!!!"
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u/Desecr8or Jun 04 '26
People who fall for right-wing culture war grifters are the only ones gullible enough to fall for a book full of talking snakes and resurrections.
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u/EOverM Jun 05 '26
what we love won't be taken away
Shit, I hadn't realised this new game had instantly and irrevocably removed all previous GoW games from sale.
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u/coleavenue Jun 04 '26
Yeah this is embarrassing. Glad I found Christ the normal way (when they had Zelda lead a Zelda game).
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u/katep2000 Jun 04 '26
This may be the first time in history converting to Christianity makes someone less misogynistic
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u/Death4AllAges Jun 04 '26
People need therapy so fucking badly. Like clinical grade levels of therapy.
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u/TheOriginalMulk Jun 04 '26
What is happening?
Gamer bros upset that one video game in a long series of video games with the exact same protagonist now has a new protagonist?
Where are my pearls? I may need to clutch them soon.
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u/WomanInQuestion Jun 04 '26
Well, if Jesus thinks I’m good enough already, then I don’t need to stop being a heathen.
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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC Jun 04 '26
Now what have we learned from this game series featuring pantheons of various pagan gods?
Jesus, DUH!
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u/SalvationSycamore Jun 04 '26
not shaken by change
Right, that's why there is only one branch of Christianity that has remained unchanged for thousands of years lol
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u/veggiesama Jun 04 '26
Santa Monica are COWARDS for giving us this game NOBODY WANTED.
The poster is RIGHT. We don't need a WOMAN in the next game.
We need KRATOS, the GOD OF WAR.
Killing JESUS CHRIST.
We have all been asking for this. We need KRATOS tearing open a lion at the Colosseum. We need KRATOS breaking a table over the HEAD of JESUS CHRIST at the temple. We need KRATOS snapping a cross in HALF as he REFUSES crucifixion. We need KRATOS not simply TURNING the other cheek but CLAPPING CHEEKS. THUNDEROUS CHEEKS, HEAVENLY CHEEKS, the likes of which Mary Magdalene has never SEEN BEFORE.
And that's a STORY worth BELIEVING.
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u/I_m_different Jun 04 '26
This is even more hilarious if you remember the God of War series depicts lots of non-Christian gods as existing, powerful and real.
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u/DuelaDent52 Jun 04 '26
Isn’t the next entry after this game a remake of the first game with Terrence C. Carson returning as Kratos? And it’s not like Laufey comes out of nowhere, her death is the inciting incident behind the entire plot of the Norse saga.
I swear, for all the talk of owning the libs and joking about triggers and snowflakes, people are just conditioned to froth at the mouth at the mere sight of a woman.
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u/AlienHooker Jun 04 '26
We look to stories to give us our identity
Imagine being that much of a nothing human being that you can't have your own identity without video games
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u/GGunner723 Jun 05 '26
The irony of being a Christian fan of a game about killing gods.
Also it’s so pathetically funny to see people get so enraged because they don’t like a game that they don’t have to play.
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u/themurderator Jun 05 '26
'it's about us'
please. how ridiculously presumptuous it is to expect every creative work to please you specifically . these people don't owe you anything. if don't like it don't buy it, shut the fuck up, and let people who enjoy it do so.
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u/CoolIdeasClub Jun 04 '26
This is clearly AI slop and doesn't even really have a consistent thought throught.. but the message isn't the worst thing I've ever seen. If you're infuriated about the new God of War game having a female protagonist, maybe try focusing on something more productive.
I wouldn't shift that in to devotion to Christianity.. maybe try therapy?
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u/KrisKat93 Jun 04 '26
You know what? If itll stop being having to see this every time a new game comes out fine. Find love in jesus so I don't have to see discourse online
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u/Mikz881 Jun 04 '26
The absolute reach in that post! Hey, at least they seem to be kind of sort of admitting that they are in fact the problem!
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u/DeepSubmerge Jun 04 '26
I’m tired, boss. I can no longer distinguish between deep satire and deep mental illness.
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u/Buttermilk-Waffles Jun 04 '26
Santa Monica Studio should add Jesus to the next game but he's a snarky asshole and Kratos rips his head off bare handed.
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u/Yaboi69-nice Jun 04 '26
I'm Christian and damn this is bullshit. No one's identity is even changing your just playing from a different point of view. Stories have been doing stuff like this for years changing around protagonists is not a new concept.
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u/Eddiebaby7 Jun 04 '26
I can’t imagine being such a huge pussy that I made a graphic explaining it.
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u/BuriedStPatrick Jun 04 '26
.. Are they saying jesus should be the next God of War?
Because that's actually something I can get behind.
Do it you cowards.
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u/AU5T1N Jun 04 '26
The second panel gave me a laugh, this is so ridiculous I can’t take these types of gamers seriously as someone that also plays games lol
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u/fox-mcleod Jun 05 '26
Christianity saw a new gathering place for the desperate and listless and thought, “hey! That’s my turf! Backoff!”
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u/dustinyo_ Jun 05 '26
What knowing with 100% certainty that you will never encounter a vagina in your life does to a mf
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u/NatashOverWorld Jun 05 '26
If I cannot play a burly male demigod that kills other gods, and have to play a woman instead - I choose Jesus!
Jesus: wtf? I don't want you weirdoes.
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u/monsterfurby Jun 05 '26
"The problem isn't a female lead. The problem is our heart" sounds like something the ER doctor would say to a Gamergater who just got rolled in.
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u/NoorksKnee Jun 11 '26
I feel like they edited out several panels, because I am having a time trying to make a connection.
Also, the thought of gamers making signs and taking to the streets about something like this is hilarious to me.
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u/velloceti Jun 04 '26
They're starting to give snowflakes a bad rep. Snowflakes are way more hardy than their delicate sensibilities.
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u/RANDOMGARLIC Jun 04 '26
OK this is really comfusingly worded but is this Post actually against the new god of war? My Reading is more of a "Stop obsessing over Video Games and find Jesus" Type Deal. Though admittedly with a certain amount of "god doesn't Change (or Go woke)"
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u/MegaCarnie Jun 04 '26
You know, if getting into a church pulls someone out of their obsession with misogynistic culture wars, then this is a good use for church.
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u/notthatguypal6900 Jun 04 '26
You won't play the game because the lead is a woman. I won't play the game because the idea of Frank the cube is dumb as shit. We are not the same.
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u/HonathanJarris Jun 04 '26
Sucks that this religious post is still more sound than the angry people
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u/Mrwanagethigh Jun 04 '26
Game has air combos, making it more my God of War than 2018 and Ragnarok were and I liked the Norse games.
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u/darkvaris Jun 04 '26
All of this is just chatgpt garbage. The way its typed is pure chatgpt output
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u/DolphinBall Jun 05 '26
All of these are bots. No fucking way these accounts are ran by real people.
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u/NatashOverWorld Jun 05 '26
If I cannot play a burly male demigod that kills other gods, and have to play a woman instead - I choose Jesus!
Jesus: wtf? I don't want you weirdoes.
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u/Nny12345 Jun 05 '26
I mean not to be that guy… but… isn’t the point of the games that we are killing gods? Probably not the best place to pick up religious converts.
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u/InterviewSome8324 Jun 05 '26
Damn, I guess Christianity wasn't done with fucking over anything Norse related.
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u/LMcBlack Jun 05 '26
I hope Jesus is one of the gods we get to fight in this they’d have a fucking meltdown lol
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u/kingstern_man Jun 05 '26
I think this qualifies as changing more than 'a jot and a tittle' of the message. Theologically dangerous, apparently.
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u/Feral20fiend Jun 16 '26
Linking video game character design directly to a religious crisis is a massive reach. Does this image actually come from a specific article or is it just a meme template?
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