community, eager to participate in what they knew was evil.” “There’s no evidence that the Color Prince’s people have done any of this,” Ben-hadad said uncomfortably. “This is what they want us to go back to!” “They probably don’t even know about this,” Ben-hadad said. “It’s here, in this library. How would—” “Are you on their side?” Cruxer asked. “You read it, you tell me if such things don’t go a long way to explaining why the Chromeria sent luxors out into the world.”
I like this scene because it shows a lot of the moral whataboutism in a lot of theology. The Color Prince’s people are fighting for an ideal that has left its origin (which includes eating babies) because the very real religious oppression happening now is too terrible to stand. Yet Cruxer doesn’t get it, he’s never faced cultural adversary as he’s a devote Parian.
