CR3: EPISODE 60 SPOILERS
(as I'm typing this out I'm still in the middle of watching the episode so this is just a train of thought mental rant)
I love a good philosophical debate as much as the next guy, but there's something about the pro-god vs anti-god debates in the current campaign (and all the other campaigns too tbh) that hits different.
in our world, gods/god is more of a blind faith or theory but in exandria the pantheon is real. they exist. it's not up for debate that they are there and they have power and influence. some of them are good. most of them are bad. their followers are capable of good, and bad.
and that's true for the real world as well. as someone with a lot of religious trauma, i am always going to be on the side of caution when it comes to anybody exerting religious power over others, BUT -- especially for orym -- hearing someone who hasn't seen what ludinus has done and is willing to do to destroy the gods basically imply that he's just lost his way irritates me. in a good way.
it's never gonna be a "im right, you're wrong," clear cut answer, but like orym has said before, as noble as we can pretend ludinus' goals are, he has killed innocents, destroyed countless lives that were not involved in his beef with the gods. his ambition and cruelty and callousness is driven by his hatred of the gods, and that's just as bad as the pantheon preying on followers and non-believers alike.
ludinus cannot free predathos and he cannot kill the gods, if only because i do not trust the kind of man who is capable of all of those atrocities and all that darkness to hold all the fucking power in the world. who could go against the man who destroyed the gods? it's a recipe for disaster.