Let's take the term Asura. It's found in three religions:
Buddhism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (<–nudge nudge). In two of them, the Asura are minor and materialistic deities. In the third, it's a different class of deities. Now, maybe Oda is trying to say something obscure about the need to cut oneself free from materialism in order to transcend worldly desires, blahblahblah ..., but more likely -- since he's admitted to doing this before in other contexts -- he just chose the name because it "sounded cool" and because the third religion also has Zoro's name in it. So it's not a critique of materialism, it's a silly pun.
well in hinduism asuras were the demon warriors who always opposed gods …. and theire main aim and all of there dead fate revolved around acquiring materialism ........ asura and a deity are tottally opp :wassat: :blink:
and ya the asura power tht zoro did looks like a demon named ravana in indian mythology..
anyways i wish one of zoros sword is a DF sword ......... that would be awesome and why the hell is everyone avoiding sangi .... he learnt kenpo karate same as our pretty bon chan , but he learned it from the master of it i just sooo wish there would be a showdown soooon ....