Quote Originally Posted by neflight86 View Post
I'm at the point now where these schemes are beginning to grate until I understand the master plan behind them. Apparently its the church (the most unfortunate and cliche possibility) behind this, but I don't understand their rationalization so their side has no depth of purpose, and Malty working with them doesn't endear me any further.

I hope we either get away from this for a while or dive in nose first (and get some answers), because these shinanegans are just feeling lazy at this point.
Well, from the Church part it's no different than the Crusades. They for one reason or another consider the Shield hero (whomever wields it) devilish. And it makes some sense in some context because we've already seen the Rage side of the Shield. That seems fairly self explanatory.