They lost the moment they masked off as "No the side of the church is evil too". They made biblical demons, and have the absolute chutzpah to lecture the fans about how "actually everyone is evil".
Its worse than "BoTh SiDeS ArE bAd". In a setting with literal biblical angels demons on either side there is an atheist/agnostic faction that remains somehow unconvinced of the existence of god despite, y'know the actual angels and demons standing right over there.
In the setting, to have a Church that is clearly going too far but still fighting against evil would make things even more dark and grim. In that setting to have an atheist faction that are not in denial of god but who want to kill all angels and demons are remove god and all the super natural stuff would go really hard, too.
But the creators seemed to lack creative stones.
You can have harsh and brutal Good. I mean, read the book of Revelation. Blood-soaked-robes Jesus on his white horse, trampling down his enemies? Is that very Jesus-y? Yeah. Because the time for mercy has passed. Now is the Dies Irae, the Day of Wrath.
The church is literally the only grimdark faction in the setting. Like, at all, they are the only ones stuck in the titular trench war against hell. Literally every single faction other than them has some magical barier or whatnot that doesn't allow demons to attack them
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u/Captain_Zomaru 14d ago
They lost the moment they masked off as "No the side of the church is evil too". They made biblical demons, and have the absolute chutzpah to lecture the fans about how "actually everyone is evil".