Editing Religion (section)

===Halo===
The Covenant faith from Halo is an odd one. Visually, they obviously take influence from the Eastern Orthodox church, but they see the Forunners akin to Siddertha Guatauma, and the Halo rings are the way to begin "The Great Journey". Within it are tons of references to Judeo-Christian theology, and the original title of "Arbiter" was actually "Dervish", but since some towers got knocked down in the US, this name was understandably dropped. The Covenant also defy the simplistic analysis of "science vs faith" by having explicitly more advanced technology than the UNSC, reflecting a blend of the two elements.

*Of note is that Halo 2 is perhaps the only game/piece of media that actually critiques religion in a way more complex than "LOL RELIGION DUMB AND SILLY AND BAD". Many players and critics praise the fact that the Arbiter slowly grows out of the Covenant faith, learning the true purpose of Halo contradicts what he's been told, with Tartarus being his dramatic foil (helps that the Arbiter gets his information from the source via a Forerunner A.I). The Zealotry is still bad, but the writers explicitly took time to flesh this out as opposed to just taking a simplistic position and having Gary Stu beat the shit out of caricatures of anything they didn't like.