This is just a blog post about the Christian themes in the Souls series that Christians and other religions can appreciate from the series. This is not to say that the series pushes these on the player. I'm just pointing out the ones that it has in the background. This is a list of things that I've found in the series and is also my opinion in some regards. I hope you find them interesting.
Demons souls - Dark souls
- There's more to humans than humanity
- There's a point to humanity existing
- Humans made themselves into gods through the power of souls, but they all eventually fell to the nature of the world
- Hypocritical atheists like Patches is worse than the clerics he hates
- Self-sacrifice is the highest good
- A single person can change the world and it can be anybody
- Miracles and spells all draw from the same source like how Christianity mixes reason (intelligence) and faith
- Clerics that use the faithful to make money usually end up in the worst scenarios
- Pledging yourself to a covenant is better than going solo
- Don't always trust what people tell you
- Persist through life to get the highest rewards
- Dark magic is a corrupted version of faith
- Failure is a teaching tool
- Everyone is flawed
- Everything is ordered and there are laws in the world that can't be changed
- You're always going to experience pain so you should make what you're striving for worth it
- Immortality in the mortal realm isn't a good thing
- Humanity uselessly fights against the natural way of things i.e. the linking of the fire
- Improving every single second of the day helps to get us to our goals
- The first time the first flame is used is similar to eating the fruit of good and evil
Bloodborne specific
- Don't take things on blind faith especially if someone says it's from God
- The church isn't always right
- Blood is sacred and shouldn't be misused
- No one knows everything about reality unless you are a higher being
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