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[Typhrus]

Considering the Knights Hospitaller are originally Christian warriors from the Crusades, who over timed morphed into providing health and medicinal services and gave rise to the modern term of 'hospital'. So yes, it does have a history and close association with Christianity, the Red Cross, by and large is now associated with health and healing in various ways.

Anyway, its hardly the point of the thread and we should really avoid talking about religion as it is kind of against the rules

[Hanako Ikezawa]

http://forum.bioware...ition-xbox-one/

 

Dragon Age: Inquisition will be playable at E3!

Yay! I hope somebody takes pictures.

[Felya87]

 

Despite what many think, the Red Cross is in fact a Christian symbol. The name of the International Organization is "the International Red Cross and Red Crescent", and in Muslem countries the organization uses a red crescent instead of the cross. Also, it is easy to consider a symbol to be "evolved beyond" your religion, when it is the symbol of your religion.

 

Red Cross chose the red cross on white background because is the mirror of Switzerland's flag. Since Red Cross was created in Geneva.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Or priveleged people considering a problem that other people have to be dumb.

 

But this is not the thread for this discussion, so I'm not going to comment about this anymore.

Then why did you bring the symbols up? 

[Kallimachus]

Then why did you bring the symbols up? 

 

I tried to make a point about the Christ-like images in the game. That is all.

[Lebanese Dude]

Nitpicking as always.

It's a Christian avatar used in modern days to symbolize health. Should non-Taoists complain about the usage of their symbol in modern gaming too? I'm kinda "disturbed" by the usage of yin and yang.

Well not really. I'm actually indifferent to usage of symbols in games, because they mean nothing in that setting.

[Wolfen09]

well, to annoy hinata at this point lets bring up the last supper topic everyone has been bringing up since we are discussing christ-like images

[Lebanese Dude]

well, to annoy hinata at this point lets bring up the last supper topic everyone has been bringing up since we are discussing christ-like images

Lets stick to twitter posts.

[Wolfen09]

awwww but i love getting off topic

[Iron Star]

Actually that is called a Greek Cross, which was the standart cross in early Chritianity, and continues to be used as a primary Christian symbol by the Orthdox Church and most Eastern Chrches.

 

 

Despite what many think, the Red Cross is in fact a Christian symbol. The name of the International Organization is "the International Red Cross and Red Crescent", and in Muslem countries the organization uses a red crescent instead of the cross. Also, it is easy to consider a symbol to be "evolved beyond" your religion, when it is the symbol of your religion.

 

I mostly agree with what you say, I'm just saying that while I know that these symbols were once, or still are religious symbols I feel that they at least for me is a symbol for first aid or medicine, rather than christianity. This isn't the case for many, sure, and I just wanted to share my view on it.

 

But I don't think this topic really belongs in this thread, so if people want to keep discussing this it'd probably be best to make a new thread about it.

[hotdogbsg]

How about that Twitter then?

[JakeLeTDK]

Twitter guys. Twitter

I'd hate if someone lock this down Bad enough we got unpinned. I still dream about this thread reach 2k pages you know

[The Qun & the Damned]

Can we get back to the twitter stuff, all this chatter about religious symbolism is giving my headache a headache

[Suledin]

Take the symbols to another thread. This is not the place to discuss them. Thank you very much.

 

[TheJediSaint]

x1000.

 

Though this can be handled differently. If some people of Thedas regard you as a messianic figure, that should not present a problem as long as the story itself is silent about it and I have appropriate ways to reply. As opposed to that, in ME the problem was that the story heavily suggested Shepard actually had that kind of significance, and not just in the eyes of others, so it was impossible to distance yourself from it.

 

I like Jesus, I really do.  I just  don't want to play him.  (Or her)

[Hrungr]

Dragon Age

Dragon age: Inquisition has won on the Role Play Convention's (Germany) Most Promising Product Award!

 

[Kallimachus]

That's a bit like Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize... Now you have to deliver on that promise.

 

(I'm not saying saying BioWare won't or hasn't in the past - I liked DA2 even more than I did DAO - I just don't really understand why an award such as that would even exist)

[The Elder King]

That's a bit like Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize... Now you have to deliver on that promise.
 
(I'm not saying saying BioWare won't or hasn't in the past - I liked DA2 even more than I did DAO - I just don't really understand why an award such as that would even exist)

They're given in some gaming conventions. I remember that E3 gives them too, though they're a bit different.

[DanielCofour]

What I'm saying is that you can borrow the imagery without making allusions to the plot. It can be Faux Symbolism.

 

The author trots out that Battlestar Galactica promotional image as "OMG DIS PREDICTED EVERYTHING" but I would note that the same schtick was used by the Simpsons in the Rapture episode, with Homer in the role of "Jesus." You know who ended up betraying Homer? Nobody, because it was just a joke that the episode closed on. It was meaningless.

 

To quote a wise philosopher: it's sometimes possible to read too much into this s**t.

 

Really? The Simpsons' Jesus metaphor was a joke? WOW! I wouldn't have guessed. Seriously... That's like saying South Park's "trip through the anus"  scenes are meant to be taken as a metaphor of something, and they turn out to be just an obscene.... scene(?).

 

Dragon Age on the other hand... the whole universe is full of symbolisms and allusions to real world events. Why on Earth would you bring up Simpsons as something of an example to this not being the case is beyond me.. 

[Hrungr]

David Gaider ‏@davidgaider 

"I have a plan."

"Is it like the Cylon plan? Because that was a pretty shitty plan."

"Umm...no."

[ArtemisMoons]

Look, can we at least keep the conversations linked to the twitter info because this thread is becoming more and more of a joke. I kind of wish that the only posts allowed were twitter posts so people could find information easily.

[Uhh.. Jonah]

@Lion_Martinez: Great news for you huge Dragon Age fans, incoming tomorrow!

interesting.

[ElitePinecone]

John Epler ‏@eplerjc  3m

woooo multiple SKUs wooooo.

 

(I think this refers to old/new generations/PS3/PS4/Xbox 360/Xbone)

[ElitePinecone]

@Lion_Martinez: Great news for you huge Dragon Age fans, incoming tomorrow!

interesting.

 

The Collector's Edition, I'm pretty sure.

 

Mike was talking about it earlier in the week as coming 'very soon'.