You’ve been trained on a form of pattern recognition your entire life (to recognize liberal themes in media, but NOTHING ELSE), without gaining the requisite breadth of knowledge and esoteric meaning to see deeper.
Halo is not only built around a conceptual framework of biblical allegory and Christian symbolism. It’s also the distilled essence of Proto-Indo-European mythology: of the warrior-trickster archetype who steals fire from the gods, and the serpent eating its tail, symbolizing the inevitability of chaos and entropy destroying the works of men, and of the dragon slayers who resist this. It is the ancestral memory of the deluge and our collective lost pre-history, which informs the patterns and rhythms of contemporary life.
Mjolnir, Spartans. Sleeping Kings. Ancient inheritances. The kóryos. Halo is a collective shotgun blast of genuine Western culture.