Religion Archives - Unwinnable

A New Testament: How Wonder Woman Breaks Down Modern Western Religion

By Elijah Beahm • February 7th, 2019

Wonder Woman doesn’t pretend that science, religion, lawfulness, or anything else defines you as good or evil; everyone in this world is broken, and nothing can change that.

Lara Croft, in a thick parka and holding an ice ax.

Tomb Raider and the Problematic Messiah

By Elijah Beahm • April 6th, 2018

Religion in games is something you rarely see. It’s even stranger to imagine it utilized as a key aspect of any AAA project. See Crystal Dynamics’ Rise of the Tomb Raider.

a white slug cat standing on top of a red chicken legged walker in a post apocalyptic world.

Rain World’s Brutal Metaphysics

By Sam Zucchi • February 27th, 2018

The circle of life is not a metaphor for the operation of an ecosystem, but a lived reality; sometimes you are prey and sometimes you are predator—but you will remember either way.

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Gods & Astronauts – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 96

By Oliver Milne • November 1st, 2017

If space is the final frontier for science, how come so many scientists and science fiction writers use the language of religion to describe it?

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2017

By Stu Horvath • October 16th, 2017

The October issue of Unwinnable Monthly is out now! Whatever could be inside?

Letters from the Rapture

By Reid McCarter and Jed Pressgrove • September 29th, 2015

“Do you think the failure to engage with Rapture as a work regarding spirituality is borne of fear? Or intellectual laziness?”

Cassilda’s Songs

By Bill Coberly • September 17th, 2015

“…the keys of the piano, now transformed from their pedestrian black-and-white into a dozen nameless colors, spinning and dancing and laughing with me…”

Feudal Pakistan

By Shahryar Rizvi • August 17th, 2015

Shahryar Rizvi connects the history of past and present Pakistani politics to forging his own dynasty in Crusader Kings II.

Killing God With Heavy Artillery

By Corey Milne • June 3rd, 2015

Corey Milne reads Final Fantasy X as an indictment of Western religion.

I’ve spent my life trying to work out if being born on Halloween into a religious family is anywhere near as interesting as I have at times perceived it to be. There’s a clichéd iconoclasm to it, and for as long as I can recall I’ve deployed the information as if it were the punch line to a highly-condensed, low-budget Rosemary’s Baby rip-off. It’s entirely reasonable, sensible even, to assume that’s all that the paradox amounts to – something to break the ice at parties.

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