Saying anyone associated with the Chantry is guilty is pretty damn weak logic as it's the largest religion in all of Thedas. You could use that sort of logic to target civilians in any sort of situation, really. The Chantry is a public building, arguably THE PUBLIC BUILDING in Kirkwall and we have no idea how many people are there holding service or praying for guidance.
It's kind of iffy too as the Chantry is usually the one who is also working for the Mages too, which is something many Pro-Mages miss. For all the oppression rhetoric they get, they also work to keep mages from being killed.
We get a first-hand look what Templars would do to mages without the Chantry minutes later.
I should have clarified, when I said they are "guilty", I meant that this is how they appeared in Anders/Justice's eyes.
The Chantry is directly reponsible for setting up the system that oppresses mages, as well as continuing to propogate the dogmatic line that "Magic is meant to serve man, never to rule over him" to force mages to become worse than second class citizens, through no fault of their own other than a quirk of nature.
This is not to say that the Chantry is of course, an inherently oppressive and evil organisation, as we know that the Chantry does indeed do many good works to help the poor, sick and orphans. But for Anders/Justice, the injustice faced by the mages at the Templars hands (and by extension the Chantry) is something that he saw far more of, so he chose to punish them for it.
I'm not saying that he's right, but put yourself in his shoes and then imagine that you were sharing a body with a being who's sole berserk button is watching injustice. Could you honestly say you could live through seven years in Kirkwall and not end up going completely doolally by the end of it?
You are making this up. No where in the game are any of these claims supported. Anders has like 5 sentences after the bombing and none of them say he only meant to hurt Chantry personnel nor was it anywhere stated that it was the middle of the night. The sky being dark doesn't mean midnight you are clearly trying to make what happened in front of everyone's eyes who played the game into something different to suit your opinion.
I didn't say midnight, I said the middle of the night. Based on repeated playthroughs of the game, as well as the above screenshots from Lulupab, it's clear that it was indeed night when the bombing took place and there were only a half-dozen people in the Chantry at the time.
Based upon those two facts, it's reasonable supposition that Anders chose the middle of the night to attack because he wasn't aiming to inflict major casualties on anyone but the half-dozen people in the Chantry at the time.
Furthermore, It makes far more sense to destroy one (mostly) empty Chantry as a symbolic gesture, than to destroy one with a bunch of innocent people inside, since a major civilian death toll only further to prove to the public that mages are dangerous and incite hatred against them, the very opposite of what Anders wants to happen.
Instead, if a rogue mage destroys a mostly empty building and Meredith responds by attempting to annul the Circle, who everyone knows had absolutely nothing to do with it, you only further prove to the public that mages are the victims ("the popular school of thought" according to Cullen) of the Templar's increasing brutality. Both Anders and his cause wins.
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