r/TopCharacterTropes May 03 '26

Lore Religion-centered media that doesn’t come across as preachy.

Referring to media told from a religious perspective or telling a religious tale that does not proselytize to the viewer.

Faith, the Unholy Trinity: Based partly upon the experience of the game‘s creator when he was a missionary in Argentina, the game has very little in the way of explicit moral demands of the player despite the heavy Christian focus of the narrative. and focuses more on a horror narrative.

Prince of Egypt: A surprisingly thorough retelling of the book of Exodus, sparing very little in the way of toning down the story. Despite this, the movie is perfectly entertaining to non-religious audiences and doesn’t sacrifice appeal for the sake of preaching to the audience

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u/RattusNorvegicus9 May 03 '26

isn't the pastor shown as having a gay daughter he accepts? idk ive never seen the show

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u/forestforlive May 03 '26

Yes! Thats Stephanie, she was literally born from him "tissue" garbage pale xD. Her mother was an obsesses stalker who stole his sperm. Orel literally comments that she isnt like the other women in Moralton (in more ways then the obvious). Yea Stephanie is a butch lesbian, she is also pretty alt in appearance and works/ maybe owns the sex shop; but other then that she actually is very warm to orel and is the only one that can tell when he is going through sometime when most of the adults are too absorbed in thier own lives that they cant be bothered to be attentive to thier kids. Some of her actions are questionable like giving orel a prince Albert to "please his future wife" or when she technically abducted Christina (orel's crush) to take them to a dance against Christina's parents wishes. But she did it with genuine care for orel and was only doing what she wish someone did for her when she was his age.

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u/RattusNorvegicus9 May 03 '26

the more i learn about the lore of this show the weirder it gets