is that they have an extremely obsessive, onesided, and recurrently extremely malicious and dishonest pure hatred of any form of faith whatsoever, especially Christianity,
Well Ant, I believe this piece being extremely close-minded and disingenous; aside from you cramming together wildly different materials and only popular one, I don't see why speaking badly of religion is now a concentrate of evil like you say.
Religious satire has been made since the dawn of man, often met with oppressive acts of suppression, and some of those are simply interpretations and critiques of the faith itself.
And one thing might be more sterile depictions like Family Guy and South Park, which do it mostly for shock effect, but should be respected just as well, especially because they play on the other side, i.e. the exceptional and pointless obsession the many americans seem to have with religion, which brings them to being close minded and repressive as well, and as someone who was grown and lived extensively is societies chock full of hypocritical and sufficating catholicism (such as Italy and Poland), that gas done more damage than else, I know something about it.
Then you cram Berserk in there, which is a much more elaborate depiction of the many contradictions and dark sides of western religion that are just plain truth and historical facts, I find it much more for religion itself to have gone to such lengths itself, rather than a piece of art that points them out for what they were, and is ultimately a call out for the physical and intellectual independence of man against any form of authority, divine or man made, with the two historically overlapping in self-righteousness and personal gain.
According to you, even a classical masterpiece such as Paradise Lost (to make an emblazoned and easily recognizable example) falls within the same categories and checks out all the adjectives you wrote about for much sillier operas, as it was even banned by the church for the very same reason, just like many other books, poems, songs, but also monastic orders and etc.. which challenged the established dogma and authority that furthered the personal interest of religious figures and egemonical structures.
with "One Piece" being a much more socially relevant, positive, and constructive exception, as it focuses on the real world types of atrocities caused by genuinely evil tyrannical humans with political power, rather than blaming God and faith for everything going wrong in the world.
Cutting it short, One Piece is honestly a very vanilla and superficial depictions of this and yeah, it's meant as a social critique, but I can name a number of fictional works which do the same in a better and more a congrous way, your lotathed Berserk having a front seat in it.
Still, it's not like One Piece doesn't challenge the notion of religious authority being a mean of oppression, in fact it does it repeteadly, just because it doesn't call out to christianity directly it doesn't mean it's not meant to draw parallelisms with the same policies enacted by it and other parallel creeds that always fall on the same oppressive cultism.
My unrequested and selfish counter-rant is over, sorry or for the derailing, but I felt the need of speaking my mind on this.
Now, to get back on topic.
In short, proximity to actual doctrine is far from the only thing you may put under consideration. You can argue that the nature of the work itself makes its indexing a pretty unfeasible thing to do as well
This, and bowing our heads just because people stop at the surface and do a linear connection between the Comedy and Christianity is an intellectual loss for us, as all the work done here is still done in a purely respectful manner and still draws from a specific source material.
And besides, while the Comedy does intertwine with Dante's personal philosophy, it was ultimately meant to be fictional literature since its very beginning, without any claim of authority in the first place.
And the be totally honest, Dante's own thought and the Comedy itself were rather counter-culturish for the time and he himself wasn't exactly lined up with the pope and the hegemonical church at the time, for both religious and political reasons which, as always, end up covering the same spot.
I'd argue the cosmology is separate from the character.
Cause the character is 1:1. The doctrine and identity of the character is the same. Outside religious beliefs of the cosmology and other figures are different, but the primary being of worship is a push.
Like if someone were to index Moses I would not care. But God? Nah
Well, in this case no, here God and the cosmology are literally the same thing. But this is to point out of this depiction of God is still circumscribed within the boundaries of an overall fictional work, which has to be faced in its entirety and judged as such.
