Ok, so things pointing to Drifter being Christian… used to there was a gun you could get from Gambit, called Servant Leader, which I searched the meaning of. It means encouraging diversity of thought, creating a culture of trust, having an unselfish mindset, fostering leadership in others, and this is something I got in a search result,
What does servant leader mean Bible?
Servant-leadership serves others by investing in their development and well being for the benefit of the common good. Thus a good Christian servant-leader serves God through investing in others so that together they may accomplish a task for Gods glory.
Drifter has done things to help others without seeking a reward, like in season of plunder, he helped and told the Guardian not to give him any of the gold. And btw I believe Drifter is poor. There have been multiple times he’s said that he’s hungry, and he also doesn’t really have his own place to live. He pays rent to the Vanguard so he can live in the Tower, and he eats random gross stuff or has to steal food. He helped when the Pyramids first arrived, he helped deal with Eramis, and he also was trying to help Eido when she was upset at her dad for not telling her about his past, Drifter was trying to help her without bossing her around. He also once said to Spider, “I ain't the man to tell anyone what to do.”, showing that he does not believe he is higher or better than others, even though he is very powerful. The Drifter has been fostering leadership in the Guardian, encouraging them to make the decisions, Drifter has been creating a culture of trust with Eris, he normally does not trust others or open up to them, but lately hes been opening up and trusting Eris, which she really appreciated, and that means a lot because normally Eris is kinda sad and depressed about everything. Drifter has been kind and comforted Misraaks when he was upset because of how he’d done bad things in the past, and Drifter told him that what you do now matters more than what you did in the past. And another time Saint-14 said the same type of thing to Misraaks, and Drifter responded saying, “Amen, brother.”, and I don’t think that’s a normal thing for people to say in video games, but Drifter said it. Drifter has also related to Misraaks, saying how everyone has something that keeps them up at night and has done something they are not proud of, and there have been times in the past Drifter did something that wasn’t great, but he obviously regrets it. And once Drifter lived in a village of people who didn’t have the light. He helped them to find food, but they didn’t know it was him helping, and he never told them. He helped them without seeking praise or glory, and instead another person in the village got the praise. And used to, Drifter hated his Ghost, because it brought him back and Drifter was miserable and always starving to death and being brought back just so he can starve again or die some other way again. But then in a piece of lore, the description for it was, “Had a face like the end-times and eyes like manna in the desert. One look at him and I knew I wasn’t gonna be saved.”, which had nothing to do with the lore the description was on, but on that lore Drifter actually was being nice to his Ghost. So he made a drastic change from hating his Ghost, to calling it his friend. And he made a Biblical reference with manna in the desert, and who else would he be talking about besides God? Because who else is saving people? And I think that after that piece of lore Drifter became a much kinder person, to his Ghost and to others. Here’s part of the lore where he’s being nice to his Ghost,
Above him, the derelict descended. His Ghost flinched slightly as the ship’s engines kicked up a whirlwind of dust. Drifter cooed softly to his friend. “I love this job.”
And another part,
Drifter’s Ghost expanded and it’s eye went wide. It did this instead of laughing. It couldn’t laugh. “shut up. Shut up, you idiot.” Drifter waved his friend away.
And another thing. Drifter has had many different names, one was Eli, which is a Biblical name. And there’s a gun that seems like it was Drifters, and on the side of the gun is a picture of a crane. And I searched the meaning of the crane, and it represents balance, harmony, respect, immortality, grace, devotion, and the crane has been featured in Christian art for centuries (plus, cranes eat a lotta stuff in the wild, same with how Drifter eats all sorts of stuff, pointing to the crane representing Drifter). So there is a lotta random stuff that points towards Drifter being a Christian.
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Locking this thread. It was already skirting CoC (Religious Discussion), and the replies prove why we have that as part of our Code of Conduct.
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99 Repliesim pretty sure christianity has been a dead religion long before drifter showed up
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I doubt it. If Drifter is a Christian, he would have been banned a long time ago for violating the code of conduct here. Hahahahahahaha! In before locked. Hahahahahahaha!
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I kinda doubt this one. He strikes me more as someone who has read ancient lore on various religious beliefs and has maybe picked up on some of those concepts. Much of what you presented didn’t seem like things that were especially unique to a Christian belief. I am a Christian myself and I dont see Destiny team inputting any real world beliefs into this universe for several reasons. 1. is of course marketability but 2. Is that they are playing with very different concepts about religion, life, death, causality, the universe. Basically big questions in their made up universe and real world religions may muddy the water of understanding. As an example of difficulties that arise with real religions in this story could be along the lines of: If the hive or the vex can demonstrate religious observance if something in exchange for power, and we have in universe lore that supports a particular religion (lets say Christianity) then one could wonder was Jesus a being with paracausal powers and was he serving the traveler….. etc. it just muddies the water and kinda messes with this story which is trying to explore what it means to be human and concepts of fate, destiny, etc.
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2 RepliesOmfg I clicked on this expecting a short silly gag post to find this dude wrote a whole damn essay
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I think drifter is a humble person, but im not sure if he adheres to any "old world mythology" (as quoted by felwinter in an old rise of iron grimoire card), given even general information on modern religions in the world of destiny has pretty much disappeared by the time of the city era.
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That would be nice but bungie won’t ever let that happen.
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Who cares if he was even catholic. We’re at war with the apocalypse for crying out loud😂.
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As the lore lawyer , I’m going to have to sue you for spreading false information
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I’d be willing to bet actual cash that this isn’t real. Not because the religion is wrong/bad like most people on here, but that Bungie would never actually make one of their characters with real religious junk
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Nah, he's probably Catholic, does bad things then confesses what he did later for validation reasons, only cares about himself.
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2 RepliesI'm not reading all of that, what's the tldr?
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Drifter Christian, oh the time has come And you know you're the only one to say, ok.
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TLDR. I think not.
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There are no old world religions in Destiny. People began worshipping the Traveller after the collapse.
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5 RepliesBut does the drifter know what a paragraph is though?
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1 ReplyEdited by IH8 Warlocks: 2/12/2023 2:52:12 PMUnless hes colonized and murdered Indigenious native americans, enslaved africans. And supported Trump, then hes not
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31 RepliesI don’t think Christianity even exists in Destiny dawg.
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I'll give it a read in a bit.
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3 RepliesEdited by Astartes Marine: 2/11/2023 7:37:37 AMI can see it. Christians, at least the ones who practice what they preach and stay true to the Bible instead of those lukewarm Laodicean types that compromise on the faith to appease the world, aren't all that well liked by society as a whole, don't make many friends, and are generally outcasts from society. The Drifter fits many of the criteria, and I've come to like how his character has grown from the typical shady rogue to someone I would gladly have at my back. That said, I'm still not going anywhere near Gambit.
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Alllllllllllrighty
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Idk about that...keeps asking me for a bang
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Idk but Christian but drifter is the kind of guy that I would go do my taxes with while claiming 6 kids that aren’t mine or real to get a bigger tax return and he would be cool with it as long as he got a cut
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Edited by Tru-Zrue: 2/12/2023 8:46:05 AMIdk about that. Strong possibility they don’t want that (my) religion in destiny. Wouldn’t fit the story (amongst other things).
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Not reading, but Bungie takes all of the story related content and naming schemes from all kinds of already established religion and mythology based history/literature.