Here we go again...
Daystar (and I hope 1C pays attention also), you can't just throw a name which meant sth in history in the game, and say it's fantasy unrelated to history.
You can't create a good race - let's call it "Nazi" - and an evil race - let's call it "Jews", and tell the public is pure fantasy and expect them to digest it.
You can't put in the game an Angel without wings, a Centaur with the body of a chicken, a Cyclop with 2 eyes and so on. Any name you use binds you to a certain representation.
There are 2 reasons both Nival & 1C don't see what's wrong with inquisitors:
1. Russia was never touched by the Inquisition, especially in its most cruel form, and both developers are Russian (and unfortunately both Warhammer fans it seems). So the Inquisition didn't leave a trauma in people's mind there, like the holocaust among the Jews. And on forums this doesn't get much reaction, because for example Americans also didn't have to deal with it much - but it would be a totally different story if the game would have Ku Klux Klan-like creatures portraiting Priest's upgrade.
2. People tend to forget. We're all still sensitive to the use of Nazi or Klan symbols, because their crimes are less than 100 years old. But we all forgot (or don't care anymore) of what the Inquisition did in the previous centuries.
I am a religious person, and the Inquisition did to the people sharing my believes same thing as the Nazis did to the Jews. I am therefore going to support or protest against the game, buy or not buy the game, depending on 1C's choice of removing the Inquisitors from the game.
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