@Aretheus: [...]I do wish that these authors could stop relying on religion being hilariously evil. I mean, western religions have been pretty scummy in the past, but it just gets boring to read every time.
IKR? It was interesting 20 years ago, when it wasn't abused as it is nowadays. As soon, as there is an slightly organized religion, you can count on them being the big evil or at least an evil.
And the way they are acting in most cases. Stupid beyond believe. I know, that an organization big enough, will have corrupted influences within itself and most MC in isekais are a force to recon with, so that those organizations can't possibly ignore them. But why are they always sending the most suspicious guys, with only half of a brain, after those MC like a heat seeking missile? Or in this case here, they are forging their own holy scrolls so stupidly, it hurts. And they wage a war for short term profits, that WILL lower their overall income in the years to come. I mean, they know they won't win, as their saint is a fake, they created. They are just evil for story reasons, but not for logic ones.
I don't say, the authors should highlight a church in the best colors. They are bound to have faults as a big organisation, but really. Badly portrait evil church is boring af.
It's always nobles and the church. How about corrupt merchants for a change? Big companies, that bought their way into everything. Or an evil racial-chauvinistic dragonrace? Or terrorists? Terrorists have been abused in movies like the heck (Even in the last 3 Star Trek movies. Nero, Khan and that one last guy. All terrorists.), but they would be rather fresh in fantasy stories. Show us, why that is evil. Or Nationalists! Don't just go, "Oh, look! It's a bad country." Flavor it out! Show the citizens!
But there are stories out there, that are worse then this one here, so I'm willing to let it slide in this case. That is just a stupid religion, that is hurting the people instead of helping them and therefore should cease to exist or be reformed. Let's just assume, it is at its lowest low.