Entertainment With Mythology?
Well personally the reason to indulge in this particular form of entertainment (in a balanced way to balance life priorities off course) is that it is a strategy game where one can explore different strategies based on factions of choosing and hence helps in development of cognitive behavior. Plus the graphics and asthetics (depictions of multiple cultures) of the the game are visually appealing in the artistic sense too. Having said that, it’s not anything about the gameplay or mechanics that causes this anxiety but only the inclusion of those particular elements which are inspired by real religions but we’re put there by the devs for gameplay aesthetics only and not to endorse any religion or anything like that. PS: I have been playing this game for a while now without feeling any guilt but only recently started feeling anxiety due to this new found OCD.
@faisalharoon yes brother I agree with you on that. I have had a chance to reflect on my anxiety and deduced that in my case it would be better to suppress my anxiety. Reason for this is that I don’t feel guilty while doing the act itself/ while playing the game but just thinking about it gets to me (about indulging themes inspired from other belief systems) due to the reason you mentioned above(for every person claiming for a particular thing to be mubah 10 others will claim it to be Haram 😅). Hence my condition is leading me to overthinking things and thus doubt simple pleasures people take for granted in modern times. Having said this I think that just someone telling me it’s okay won’t do anything and that I have to dig deeper into the reasoning behind it and also seek therapy to combat this anxiety.