Are you sure that wasn't just something that got inserted to appease the western morality police from the time? I know they did some similar things with Castlevania during that era.
is the opposite. religious references tended to be removed when japanese stuff came to the west. Did you know "fairy type" in yugioh is actually called "angel type" in Japan? and they had halos in the japanese cards but no halos in the english version?
Are you sure that wasn't just something that got inserted to appease the western morality police from the time? I know they did some similar things with Castlevania during that era.
is the opposite. religious references tended to be removed when japanese stuff came to the west. Did you know "fairy type" in yugioh is actually called "angel type" in Japan? and they had halos in the japanese cards but no halos in the english version?