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Catholic church canonises its first gamer saint, and one of his favourite games was Halo
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What committee?
I see. Focusing on the least relevant thing I said to avoid the main point that you can't contest. Thanks for confirming that.
As for the committee... how do you think the new testament came into being. Some person collected all the writing he liked and declared it the new testament. Then everyone else said sure... we would like to buy a copy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_New_Testament_canon
By the time it came into being, the church was an organization with power. Such an organization always draws ambitious humans who crave that power and influence. The new testament was crafted to help grow that power and influence.
It is very likely in my opinion that Jesus never even claimed to be the son of god. Probably he was a very charismatic person who actually cared about the well being of people. And so he got popular with the people. Which is why he had to be killed. Then ambitious people leveraged him and his popularity to get what they wanted. Several other modern religions took a similar road.