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I'm going to do my best to not get overly mad at you right now. Who exactly was fucking stupid? And why are they any more stupid for worshiping animals than worshiping an invisible force in the sky?
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It was a joke and I even stated that in the next paragraph.
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Again, I find it more than a little strange that you're trying to equate a monotheistic religion to polytheistic indigenous religions. Why not compare them to real world animistic religions instead of a set of monotheistic religious scriptures that have been tweaked and changed for nearly two thousand years?
Mudokons are a shamanistic race that believe in souls, much like many other animistic cultures, and I think it's a safe bet that they believe the creatures of Mudos have souls as well.
Seeing as one of the biggest themes in Oddworld is a loss of cultural identity, it would make sense that these beliefs are very old, and out-date the enslavement of Mudokons. Industrialism is killing the beliefs of old. The industrialism isn't giving rise to these beliefs.
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In a way I supposed I compared to religions in real life, but I was just trying to search for a reason as to why the creatures were worshipped, however I don't think me speaking about religion was a bad thing, the story of AO is perhaps a really extreme interpretation of our own lives, and a surreal narration upon capitalism and industrialism. Lorne clearly had inspiration from real life, of course in real life we have capitalism, which can be seen as survival of the fittest where those who work hard get a lot out of life where as those who don't stay at the bottom of the chain, but as we know, some people are stuck at the bottom due to unfortunate circumstances or not being given the right opportunities, and I can see how Oddworld interprets this as the creatures and grounded up and mudokons are forced into slavery for nothing but profit for those at the top. So I don't see why there wouldn't be some inspiration from religion thrown in there somewhere, but still I find it fascinating that they were worshipped given the threat they pose in the game. When we learn that they were worshipped, why was this done? Was it to show how sacred Scrabs and Paramites are, to give us an insight into life before the mass industrial takeover? Or to in a sense, put a religion in there somewhere, but make it seem more logical as the creatures being worshipped are things that we see in the flesh and we know exist.
Or is there some invisible force in Oddworld that we don't know of that carved out Abe's fate, or was it just all coincidence that he stumbled onto the meeting about the Mudokon pops?