Venator Homophobic voiceline

[simonneighten]

After Venator kills a character he goes on a rant how he wants to kill and purify Earth from gay people?

"Nice try. Sodom will burn. Gomorrah will fall. I am the flood that washes the earth clean. [clears throat] No one is going to stop me. I won't stop until all of them are dead. A ventor shows no mercy. I have my orders. The righteous have nothing to fear from me. A ventor will not be denied. The tide will be paid in blood. My resolve is endless. My work will not be deterred. The battle isn't over yet. Death to the wicked. Their death will save lives. Do not mourn them. There are no innocents here. They picked aside and now they will reap what they sowed. Let me be stained by the blood of the wicked. I will not waver. Eternal rest be unto them, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them."

The story is of Sodom and Gomorrah has a big history of being used against gay people by the christian church.

Valve was always silent about LGBT in their games, but why would you add a character that uses a story from the bible used against LGBT people for centuries and then calls them wicked? This is a fucking disgrace.

Sodomy - Wikipedia

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There's many references that could have been added to show he is a priest, but this one one chosen? And when he kills?..

 

[zer0.r.ivxx]

He saying he is going to purge Sin and Evil its not that deep

 

[criticalimpact762]

He is a man of God and is quoting scripture. This is a fictional setting with fictional characters. Any real world implication you see should be null and void. As is true for all works of fiction.

 

[Akasha]

The character is set up as a zealot, Zealots be what they are, i don't think it incites hate or anything like it.

Antagonists in movies and games CAN be controversial in order to emphasize the fact that they ARE the antagonist.

it's like being mad at a ww2 movie because of depictions of SS symbology or swastika's, they're there to imply them being the antagonist.
Obviously there is a limit but i think Valve stayed well within the limit, the character isn't 'anti lgbt' per its design choice especially if only this is the only example you have issues with.

 

[Ukie]

This is a big stretch.Sodom’s sin being homosexuality is a rather recent interpretation that was established in 20th century. In a more traditional interpretation Sodom and Gomorrah are “cradles of sin, lust, evil and wickedness of man” with no explicit focus on homosexuality being the “primary” sin of the list, it’s more so “unnatural sex” which can be interpreted in many ways. I think it makes sense that a religious morally gray character would use biblical metaphors in his lines, which in this case refer to a more universal sin of people of Sodom and Gomorrah rather than just one aspect of it.