User blog comment:Fimber/Why I understand Uther's reasons for banning magic - and why no one is a saint on "Merlin"/@comment-4814726-20120628000258/@comment-4814726-20120628162023

Oh boy, this is gonna be... oh man.

I don't think the Old Religion itself can act anything but fair, since it must mantain balance in the worlds. Balance btwn good/evil light/dark/life/death and so on. But in Camelot, it is obviously misunderstood A LOT so its only natural that there would be a lot of bad things to see about it since thats where the show is set. I really don't think the Old Religion is that bad. It was the people themselves b4 the great purge who were using it to evil ends. It is true that power can corrupt, but in MERLIN the old relgion is more than power, it is the very energy that runs thru the earth. Is it right for Uther to destroy the earth? To keep the sun from rising? To stop the winds and rivers? HE CANT STOP THE BEAT! ahem... hairspray reference. ..

What Im saying is that it is impossible for the old religion to be bad or 'worse than Uther'. I can see how Uther came to believe that magic was bad, but I can't see how it actually deservef to be attacked.

'''Everything he accused Uther of was actually what had Uther proven right. Merlin and Morgana are indeed magical people and both including Gaius wre indeed constantly betraying Uther.'''

I'm sorry but... WHAT?

Uther completely deservved that lecture. If, as you say, he loves his friends and family so mmuch he shouldn't hand them over to a witchfinder for interrogation. Heck, he shouldn't allow them to be suspected in the first place. Gaius confessed, that's true, but to what really? A COCK AND BULL STORY brought forward by a sudden 'ally' of Camelot. Uther knew Aredian's methods, and he allowed them to be used on his old friend. If you're not allowed out of a cell for forever and the only way you can get out is to confess to something you didn't do then ur going to confess. Obviously Uther trusts the witchfinder mor than his own friends and family, and hedoesn't even know him or his TRUE METHODS. He just trusts him becuz he apparently 'smells' magic.

Might I also add that Uther is "betrayed" by thousands of people nt just Gaius Merlin and Morgana for existing? He has a very broad area to be "betrayed" in.