Talk:List of references to religion in the Halo series: Difference between revisions

Many of these references in the page could be from the Qur'an or the Torah also, I suggest we rename it to "List of Abrahamic religion references" instead of Biblical references. [[User talk:Baryon15|Baryon15]] 22:03, 29 July 2009 (UTC))

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== Merge of Norse and Greek Pages ==

:-They should all be on the "Mythology" page. Since they're all pretty much that.--[[User talk:Hotdamnitsaaron|Hotdamnitsaaron]] 02:57, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

::mythology =\= religion [[User talk:Asdf1239|Asdf1239]] 04:22, February 14, 2010 (UTC)

::::As a Norse Pagan, I would actually be in favor of merging all spiritual/religious/mythological references together. HOwever, as I said on the Norse References page, I feel that ''all'' of it - the Judeo-Christian references included - should be put under the umbrella of "Mythological References". One persons religion is another person's mythology, and it's unfair to label one as "religion" because it's popular and the other "myth" because it's a minority. We should also only put in the things that are solid and evident; none of this "Tsavo Highway ''might'' be a reference to the highway mentioned that one time in Revelation!"[[User:Ocean Soul|Ocean Soul]] ([[User talk:Ocean Soul|talk]]) 21:41, 3 November 2015 (EST)

==The last comment==

::I'm religious (well, recently turned religious, so correct me if I'm wrong here), and I find it odd that these connections are even mentioned. They seem to have no relations to the Bible at all. Though, it's obvious that there are a lot of Christianity references in Bungie's games, not just Halo. As for the mythology sections... isn't it odd to say "OMG, they're referencing something that is referenced so much it's common sense to notice it." I mean that for the Norse Mythology section. But that's just me. [[Special:Contributions/98.198.83.12|98.198.83.12]] 03:11, December 20, 2009 (UTC)

== Gravemind is Gabriel from Quran ==

I don't mean to offend anyone, we all know religion and the internet don't mix very well, but this article seems a little bias to me. The section that puts different factions representing different things (God = Forerunners, etc.) always puts the Christians as the humans and good guys; there are a lot of different religions referenced in the Halo universe. Now, we know at least a few humans are religious (Dutch), but for the most part it's an non-subject around the humans. I think this is mostly because if the humans were religious too it would make the Covenant seem less crazy and scary by comparison. I always thought of the Covenant as representing religion, all religion, belief in a God or Gods and everything that goes with that. I also think that Christianity (to be specific) in the Halo universe is just as much a misunderstanding of the Forerunners and history as the Covenant's religion. There are obvious things that seem Christian in the Halo universe because in the universe Christianty was formed from the ancient stories of the Forerunners. We learned in Halo: Cryptum that humans were a space capable race, and allies of the (later) Prophets, before the Flood attacked the galaxy, we fought and beat them and developed a cure, but we were also fighting the Forerunners. The Forerunners won and de-evolved the humans back to about the cave man era, but in one last act of spite the humans destroyed the cure to the Flood, and not too long after the Forerunner-Flood war began and we all know how that ended. So the humans would have these stories and legends about the Foreeunners, about space ships, the Flood, the Ark, and all this other stuff from before the Halos were activated. After the few humans were put back on Earth these stories and legends became more and more distant, and (like Telephone) more and more different. The early humans didn't get the concept of aliens, space ships, and all the advanced technology, so the Flood in the stories became a real flood, the Ark became a boat that carried Earth animals, because that's what these early people could understand. All the other smaller details would naturally fall into place. Out of all this these religions were eventually formed. It's not perfect, and I'm not good at explaining it, but it makes enough sense to understand my point. Once again, not tryin' to offend anyone, this is just how I see it. [[User talk:Alex T Snow|Alex T Snow]] 08:21, 10 April 2011 (EDT)

the parts that with bible verses don't seem to have much to do with the plots of the game butthead4