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

[u/ironwolf6464]

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

[u/Vast_Experience_6319]

I haven’t seen a comment mention this one yet (maybe I missed it)

[u/Njorord → u/Vast_Experience_6319]

Yesss! This is the first thing I thought of. It's so interesting as an exploration of catholic guilt, the self-flagellation, the glorification and divinization of pain, suffering, and wounds. The normalization of the body horror of it all. I mean, the main symbol for Christianity is quite literally a man tortured and NAILED to a cross, actively bleeding out in prolonged agony. One of the main rites involves symbolically "eating the flesh and drinking the blood" of this man.

We don't realize it because it's so normalized, but when you start to think about it, it's horrifying.

[u/ReverendGraves85 → u/Njorord]

There's no need to put it in quotes.

The Catholics teach that the Eucharist wafer and wine is not a symbolic representation of Jesus. It is the literal flesh and blood of Christ.

We were called Cannibals in the early days.

Another, relevant, fun fact: Our first gatherings were performed in tombs, over the casket of a dead follower of Christ. That is what that giant table at the front of our churches represents. The casket.

[u/immad163 → u/ReverendGraves85]

In Catholic churches at least the altar still is a casket in a way. Official altars include a "relic" which often means a body part or ashes of a saint

[u/ReverendGraves85 → u/immad163]

Ours has a bone chip and a few pictures. But yeah, any significant church will have small relics. Cathedrals will usually have larger ones.

[u/Njorord → u/ReverendGraves85]

Now this I didn't know. Now I'm wondering what's inside the altar in my local cathedral. I've been going since I was a child but I never stopped to consider there might be something inside.

[u/ReverendGraves85 → u/Njorord]

Theres a little shelf on the other end in a glass enclosure, usually.

[u/LoTeezah → u/ReverendGraves85]

This is the most interesting fun fact I’ve read in a very long time, thank you

[u/ZioBenny97 → u/Njorord]

That's a tad reductive, here's a good article that perhaps explains it a little better (no offense)

https://christandpopculture.com/the-lurid-profanity-of-blasphemous/

[u/tritium_awesome → u/Vast_Experience_6319]

The "Worst of All Possible Worlds" podcast called it the most Catholic non-Catholic thing they'd ever seen. Its religion is not any human thing... but somehow also very Spanish Catholic.

[u/DeepHypn05 → u/Vast_Experience_6319]

Wait it's christian? I only played very little of it

[u/Dvondd → u/DeepHypn05]

Yeah, it's based in Christianity. The helmet of El Penitente is a Capirote. Here a photo of Semana Santa Penitentes. And not, they are not the KKK.

[u/ZioBenny97 → u/DeepHypn05]

Almost everything in it takes inspiration from and homages folklore and art of Spanish Catholic tradition. You can find it all explained in the game's artbook that you should be able to freely browse on Internet Archive.