Because the depiction of the church as a misguided, self-justified savior while at the same time being responsible for instigating Dracula's wrath in the first place is an interesting plot point.
See, here is where I wanted to arrive. As Dracula9 already pointed out: You're allowed to like it
because you think it is cool.This is my criticism. The people here complaining of the portrayal of the Church are not alone. I've seen
hundreds of them already, and every single time the same pattern takes place:
1. Person A complains of the Church's portrayal, because they think it'd be cool to not use the same tired cliche for the 47394th time.
2. Person B sweeps in. Corrects person A about how it is historically accurate and "therefore objectivelly superior".
This "therefore objectivelly superior" part is the problem: Something being historically accurate in FICTION doesn't make it automatically superior. And these people are not only claiming this, but ALSO claiming Castlevania was really like this (hint: it wasn't).
I've seen this enough in 3 days (not once, not twice, but hundreds of times) that I'm slowly and irrationally losing all respect for the Castlevania fanbase in general. One HUGE section of the fanbase is activelly silencing and shaming the other because of an idiot argument about "historical accuracy" that implies some sort of intellectual superiority, when they really mean "I like it because it's cool".