"Cursed", the church as the enemy

[Kitan Etos]

[Belacqua]

[Kitan Etos]

Oh, he has a sense of humor!

[Belacqua]

Oh, he has a sense of humor!

If you fantasize something that never happened, you can also fantasize that the church would oppose it. 

That way you can reconfirm your preconceptions despite no contact with reality at all.

That's something to laugh about.

[Kitan Etos]

Now I see your confusion.

In the show, the church is doing what it does best. It is killing the pagans for being against what it perceives as its truth, which is just its hate disguised under a religious cause. This historical and accurate part has simply been incorporated into a fictional show.

[Belacqua]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I haven’t seen the show, although I may give it a look (mostly because Katherine Langford is weirdly hot).

Of course quests for magical swords by aren’t historical, but the efforts by the medieval Church to stamp out paganism certainly are (although they tended to do it more through conversion than mass killing). Sort of like in the HBO series ‘Rome’ - the careers of the two main characters absolutely didn’t unfold that way, but the politics and daily life of Rome in the 1st century BCE are depicted very accurately indeed.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

Also remember that a watery tart throwing a scimitar at you is not the basis for a form of government.

[Kitan Etos]

The church certainly killed “witches”, also depicted in this show.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]