Dragon Age - Theology and Atheism @ bit-tech.net

bit-tech.net's Joe Martin posts his impressions of and problems with how religion plays out in character choices and storyline in  DA:O in a slightly off-the-beaten-path blog post entitled Atheism in Dragon Age: Origins.   (NOTE:This article contains spoilers.)

Here's a short excerpt to set the stage:

Dragon Age’s fictional religion obviously plays a big part of the story, with the Chantry cast as alternately oppressive and supporting of society and constantly near the centre of attention. Whether you’re helping rogue mages resist what could be seen as religious persecution or collecting ancient texts for Chantry scholars, the religion of Andastre and the Maker is pretty much unavoidable – and when it’s like that, I don’t have a problem with it. Just as in real life, I’ll let people believe what they want as long as they don’t try to make me do the same. It’s on that last, italicised clause that Dragon Age and I start to have problems…