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God and gaming


This is from the GameFAQs poll of the day.

 

 

Have your religious beliefs ever conflicted with your gaming?

 

Yes, I avoid games that deal with any religious themes Yes, I avoid games that seem to go against my religion Kind of, I've been disturbed by a few games Not really, I know it's only a game Not at all, in fact, I've never even noticed TOTAL VOTES
1.58%
16
2.28%
23
7.82%
79
29.6%
299
58.71%
593
    1010

 

 

That was copied about 5 minutes after the poll became active.

 

 

I can't believe some people will avoid a game with religious themes. 




 

 


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Iruka Naminori

Iruka Naminori wrote:
Religion turns people into such buzzkills.  Jesus.

 Iruka, I don't understand what you are trying to say.  It seems to me that you turned me into a buzzkill.  You're not suggesting that my religious belief caused me to research some video game to get to the bottom of this are you?  My religious belief caused me to think critically!  Wouldn't that be a contradiction of the basis for this website's existence?  Can you see how you created this whole mess?  Seriously, cant we just be civil?  

Loved the brevity by the way!  :P 


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Games based on the bible in

Games based on the bible in its entirety would need to be rated AO.  Gotta keep the genocidal bigotted stuff away from the kids.


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stuntgibbon, good try.

stuntgibbon, good try.  Spiritual Warfare is New Testament, booyah!

 Let's pretend you're the King of the World.  You make a law that by your calculation is right.  I disagree with your estimation. . . pretty much, I think you're an idiot.  My question is, who gets the final word here? 


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heyeverybody

heyeverybody wrote:

stuntgibbon, good try. Spiritual Warfare is New Testament, booyah!

Let's pretend you're the King of the World. You make a law that by your calculation is right. I disagree with your estimation. . . pretty much, I think you're an idiot. My question is, who gets the final word here?

you sir, are sounding like more of a jackass with each new post. you also are missing the point of stuntgibbon's post:

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Games based on the bible in its entirety would need to be rated AO.

(emphasis mine, obviously)


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Psst...he changed the


Psst...he changed the subject on you because he felt guilty about the stolen video game. Remember: fundy Christians are never wrong and if they are, they change the subject. A good subject is bible semantics. Smiling

 

Oh, I know all the theist tricks... remember, I was surrounded by them for years and years. Luckily my parents never baptised me or taught me any of it in the home, they sent me to Christian school to say "Here's what most people believe, but don't take it at face value and decide when you're ready." By somewhere around the 2nd grade I figured out it was all some ludicrous sham (of course, with the intellect of a 2nd grader, I probably used the words "funny story&quotEye-wink. Then by about the 8th grade, when they would have me go visit a preist on a weekly basis to be told I was going to go to hell if I didn't get baptised and converted, I became among other things, at the very least, Anti-Christian.

 

I just like poking them with sticks. 

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Arkanrais, fair

Arkanrais, fair enough.

Adraedon, you guys fail to mention the fact that your original premise was outright wrong, and I disproved you.  You said it was common knowledge in the gaming community that they stole Zelda's source code: inaccurate.  

I did consider the ethical dillema you presented, but in the end it proved to be a straw man.  And how can you figure out Christianity is a ludacris sham when you fail to properly exegete scripture?  This is a pattern that I've noticed with most atheists.  You believe to have something figured out, yet you have difficulty getting to the meaning of a particular scripture.   


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heyeverybody

heyeverybody wrote:

Arkanrais, fair enough.

Adraedon, you guys fail to mention the fact that your original premise was outright wrong, and I disproved you. You said it was common knowledge in the gaming community that they stole Zelda's source code: inaccurate.

I did consider the ethical dillema you presented, but in the end it proved to be a straw man. And how can you figure out Christianity is a ludacris sham when you fail to properly exegete scripture? This is a pattern that I've noticed with most atheists. You believe to have something figured out, yet you have difficulty getting to the meaning of a particular scripture.

 

That would be because the scripture I'm trying to understand is as ficticious as a Lord of the Rings novel. If I suddenly understand a batch of setences about Frodo dumping the ring into the fires of Mount Doom, does that mean I now believe it actually happened? No, because it's fiction, like the bible. I could understand the bible up, down, left, right and diagonally and it doesn't make it any less a piece of fiction. 

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  heyeverybody

 

heyeverybody wrote:

stuntgibbon, good try. Spiritual Warfare is New Testament, booyah!

Let's pretend you're the King of the World. You make a law that by your calculation is right. I disagree with your estimation. . . pretty much, I think you're an idiot. My question is, who gets the final word here?

Let's instead pretend a bunch crazy dudes, instead, CLAIMED to be directed by the "King of the World" and wrote a whole bunch of crazy-dude shit in a book that regular people in the year 2007 somehow still think is the "word of god" and somehow also don't think it's ridiculous to think so.   Ha! That'd sure be something!

 


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Adraedan wrote: "Thou

Adraedan wrote:

"Thou shall not steal... unless it helps spread the word of God to the godless gaming community, then it's cool"

 

It may be important to note that not everyone selling religious paraphenalia necessarily believes or even cares about the message. If there's a dollar to be made, someone will lie/cheat/steal to make it.

On topic, when I was a kid growing up in a particularly fundamentalist branch of the baptist church, I was consistently scolded for playing D&D, and the pastor even had a talk with my parents to convince them to ban those games from our house. My brother and I used to sneak copies of the Ultima series on diskette and only take them out when the coast was clear, because RPGs were somehow associated with Satan.

Through the clouds
Through the lies
You'll never see what's never been
At the passing of life and the coming of death
Pass not through it's gates, but into the dark


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Adraedan wrote:

sorry, double post


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Adraedan wrote: Anyone

Adraedan wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that the Christian game company Wisdom Tree stole the code to make their games and then released them without permission, even going so far as to create a special cartridge built to bypass anti-piracy measures on the SNES.

 

"Thou shall not steal... unless it helps spread the word of God to the godless gaming community, then it's cool"

Through the clouds
Through the lies
You'll never see what's never been
At the passing of life and the coming of death
Pass not through it's gates, but into the dark


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Are you telling me there's

Are you telling me there's now a second Slough Feg fan on this board?


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Jacob Cordingley wrote: I

Jacob Cordingley wrote:

I like games where you play as God.

 

www.spore.com 


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Oh, believe me, I've been

Oh, believe me, I've been waiting for Spore for a long time now. I'm going to create some sort of centaur race with tentacles so I can cover the beastiality and tentacle rape hentai porn market at the same time.

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Spore needs to hurry up and

Spore needs to hurry up and come out. I can't wait to nuke under-developed civilizations and then pretend that I'm god. That'd just be swell.