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Shadow at Morning wrote: Live: Not among any atheists I know. They're literary characters, and thus exactly as offensive as Achilles or Zeus. That is, not at all, when used in a fictional context, rather than to justify real-world brutality. You either barely know any atheists, or you're a lucky bastard. Atheists despise christianity with a passion as hot as a Seraphim. Most would nuke the pope if they could. The number of atheists that just don't believe in God and don't hate the people that do are a pretty small minority.

Being literary characters doesn't change much. They don't care about any religion that isn't christian. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Celtic, Norse, it's all fair game to them. But Christian religions are the ones they hate.

They can easily hate a biblical character, yet love a greek character. It's like a double standard, just as absurd but not as controversial. Not saying they will instantly hate any biblical character that appears. But more likely. The end result obviously depends on the performance, but you would be walking a more thin line than usual.

And of course, if it's something arguably anti-Christianity like Shin Megami Tensei (where you can even defeat God) all the better for them.