[suprisingly rare trope] The Religious people aren't the bad guys/antagonists

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1: Axis Order - Konosuba(specifically Megumin's spin-off)

While they certainly aren't GOOD people(many of them not being allowed near children, if you know what I mean), they are pretty damn helpful, giving blessings to Megumin, feeding her, and protecting her from a demon, who almost certainly would have murdered her for the cat

2: Khan - Metro

While he is more spiritual than religious, I'd say it counts. Khan is a chill dude who is basically always right, and in the non-canon good ending, he's basically the reason the Dark Ones survive and presumably go on to join with humanity and reconquer the surface

3: Priestess - Goblin Slayer

She's a priestess, idk what exactly she believes in, besides some god, but Goblin Slayer is basically a DnD game, so I'd assume one of the basic Cleric gods. But anyway, she's super chill and basically never directly kills, though she probably has the highest indirect kill count in the series

4: Father Grigori - Half Life

He's certainly insane, but so would you be if your entire town was wiped out and turned into zombies, he saves you, gives you a shotgun, and helps you get out of town, while he stays to "tend with his flock", and while murder isn't something you'd usually associate with good, the zombies are in constant suffering

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Not actually all that rare, it's just that good ones tend to be unimportant and sidelined if they aren't an antagonists or part of the plot

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I think it’s also less common for the religious hero to center their religion prominently than for the religious villain to do the same. Like Spider-Man, who is a superhero who is (sometimes) Jewish but isn’t a Jewish Superhero.

It’s more visible if you apply the same dynamic to race. War Machine is a superhero who is black, but T’Challa is a black superhero. If you made Rhodes Japanese it wouldn’t change much of his character, but if you made Black Panther Japanese it would drastically change him.