Fast forward 10 years after BioShock ended, and there's a new lunatic running the battered city. Her name is Sophia Lamb, and unlike Ryan, she's dismissed all notions of the power of individualism. She preaches about collective effort and the effects of the many working in unison can have, bringing about a kind of religious revolution within Rapture.
This will no doubt bring forth a slew of psuedointellectual, historically incompetent gamers and non-gamers ready to give their 'zomg, religion is so evil' arguments, all while ignoring the previous game that was centered around rapture being completely secular.
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I took Bioshock to be a condemnation of anything taken to extremes. Every character in Rapture was extreme, from Andrew Ryan to the Doctor to the crime boss. It was extremity that was their downfall, not secularism.
The reasons of why rapture descended into invariable madness is another topic altogether and really is not the point here(and actually makes for a good post in the future). The point is, when it comes to the first one, the fact that it took place in a completely secular setting has been and will be totally ignored, looked over, hand waved away and excused. When #2 comes out I have no doubt that religion will be the first thing to be blamed.
Not to say you're the one that is doing the ignoring, hand waving, or looking over. That was just a general statement.
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