Comments on: The Theology of … Halo https://www.pluggedin.com/blog/theology-of-halo/ Shining a Light on the World of Popular Entertainment Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:42:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Erik H. https://www.pluggedin.com/blog/theology-of-halo/#comment-28324 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:42:41 +0000 https://www.pluggedin.com/?p=34043#comment-28324 In reply to Anthony.

According to the Halo wiki, deuteragonist The Arbiter was originally going to be called “the Dervish,” but that was removed in order to avoid such a connection.

One aspect of Halo’s story I always did enjoy was that it showed how flimsy the Covenant hegemony really was – the species therein rarely got along with one another.

]]> By: Anthony https://www.pluggedin.com/blog/theology-of-halo/#comment-28309 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:19:39 +0000 https://www.pluggedin.com/?p=34043#comment-28309 In reply to Erik H..

Yes, I did always connect The Covenant with radical Islam.

]]> By: Erik H. https://www.pluggedin.com/blog/theology-of-halo/#comment-28103 Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:13:25 +0000 https://www.pluggedin.com/?p=34043#comment-28103 This was a good article, keeping in mind that the first game’s movie-like story of religiously motivated aliens (crucially, back at a time when first-person shooters weren’t known for having elaborate stories, let alone ones told extensively through non-interactive cutscenes) coincidentally released shortly after one of our darkest encounters with religious violence.

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