Religious groups call for Faith Fighter game ban

 

From the Metro courtesy of the Melon Farmers:

Calls to ban online game of Holy hatred

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Players can choose from a number of religious figures in Faith Fighter

Religious groups are calling for a ban on an online game where holy figures such as Jesus and the prophet Muhammad fight to the death.

Critics say the free Faith Fighter game is ‘deeply provocative’ and ‘disrespectful’ towards all world religions.

Muslims are particularly outraged because Islamic tradition prohibits drawings of Allah.

 

Hindus and Buddhists are also upset as the god Ganesha and Buddha are two of the six ‘players’.

‘This game is going out of its way to upset people and I think it should be taken off the internet,’ said Douglas Miller, pastor of the Link Church in Birmingham.

‘Playing violent video games will ultimately affect your behaviour and this game is deeply offensive and provocative.’

A spokesman for the Federation of Muslim Organisations said: ‘In the current climate, this game can only create fear about religion. ‘Having images depicting Muhammad in this way is also very offensive to our faith.’

Brian Appleyard, former chairman of the Buddhist Society, called the game an ‘offensive futile project’.

The makers of the game, where a loincloth-clad Jesus battles against a fireball-shooting Muhammad, have shrugged off criticism.

A spokesman for Italian-based molleindustria said the purpose of the game was ‘to push gamers to reflect on how sacred representations are often used to fuel or justify conflicts between people’.

 

“In the current climate, this game can only create fear about religion.”

Oh do give over this is just a computer game. Nobody will take it seriously! Why is it that so many self appointed moral guardians believe the public are stupid and take everything they see and hear litrally?

Create fear about religion? Oh there have been and there are plenty of people and things that create fear about religion. People using their religion as an excuse to blow up innocent people, people using their religion as justiifcation to spout hatred and preach violence towards others, politicians using religion as a justification to stamp on the rights and freedoms of people. They create far more fear of religion than any computer game could ever create.

Mediasnoops finds rabid Chrisian nutcases who spout hatred towards homosexuals and insane Muslim extremists who preach jihad and death to Jews far more scarey than a computer game where a few pixalated religious characters have a fictional punch up.

How about the religious lobby groups who are calling for this game to be banned get their own houses in order and sort out the nutjobs in their ranks who are creating fear of their religions before they start pointing the fingre at computer games?

“Playing violent video games will ultimately affect your behaviour and this game is deeply offensive and provocative.”

Reading books based on make believe which tell you how to behave based on what some made up guy in the sky says will ultimatly affect your behaviour. And some of the cobblers they come out with is deaply offensive.