Board Thread:Anime/Game Discussion/@comment-29981284-20161228210504/@comment-4148373-20180921172613

Zodazzle wrote: You have to keep in mind the fact that just because a metaphor doesn't make sense in some parts, doesn't make it technically wrong. Especially considering that you aren't supposed to take it SO literally that you branch out of the intention. That's what I think you are doing with DIO being God meaning he should be worshiped, or Santana being a guitarist. Especially considering those names were made WAY before Giorno and Diavolo were. Metaphors aren't supposed to be taken too literally. They are metaphors, after all.

On a side note, I really like that connection between the Bible and Jojo. It really makes sense when the key details are looked at, and not every one of them. I'm fine with people drawing parallels and using metaphors...until they start trying to impose aspects of one metaphor onto another in an argument. That's when the reasoning becomes fallacious, and that's when you need to start breaking out the silly ones to counter it. Imposing the actions of something you've compared to something else onto that second something is really disingenuous, IMO. It makes for some laughably bad argumentation, for the exact reasons you've stated: the metaphors are flawed, and only parts of them apply. In an argument, you don't get to cherry-pick like that.

Like...Doppio might have parallels to Lucifer, Diavolo to the Devil, or Giorno to Jesus. That's perfectly reasonable. Those parallels, however, are kinda irrelevant to the question of "did the character of Diavolo deserve eternal punishment", because Diavolo isn't actually Satan. Now, that might have to with why Araki had his story end like that. But the parallels don't actually justify it, from an in-universe perspective.