Catholics, Buddhists Join Hindu Protests Against Smite

The Funslinger

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Paragon Fury said:
They're just upset because someone finally decided to put the "Whose god is better?" question to the ultimate test - hand-to-hand combat.
That reminds me. I should start creating a game that I shall call Immortal Kombat.
 

Vhite

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Never bring religion to anything you do and both sides will be happy. Imagine if THEY tried to do this to gamers and made Super Mario or Master Chief and any character you care about follower of some religion, would YOU be happy? no? so STFU. Of course this wouldnt be escapist otherwise.
 

gideonkain

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This whole uproar against one game makes no sense.

This is a list of Final Fantasy Summons, containing dozens of religious figures, from Muslim Ifrits and Djinn to Hindu Shiva, Christian Golems and Alexander being summoned to the Tower of Babil

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Summons
 

hazabaza1

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Scars Unseen said:
hazabaza1 said:
I'm glad that Religion can't invoke copyright laws.
The main offence I'd take if I was religious is that some creepy Kali rule 34 will probably result from this.
Well who wouldn't be interested? I mean, that tongue... all those hands...
Um.. I... Uh...
Yeah. Well, I'm gonna...

...yeah...
 

Leftnt Sharpe

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If all religions are ultimately based on works of fiction, isn't this basically just a crossover? Perhaps they are right to be concerned, crossovers often end up being shit..............
 

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It's hard to go against such friendly looking people who look like they are going to shoot rainbows, but why should religion be free of video gaming persona's? As a white person, am I offended by the cartoonish heavy in team fortress as he is a poor representation of us? if I had a pony, would I be offended by mlp's cartoony ones? should we ban cartoons forever even the harmless ones because someone might not want to be a cartoon?

I don't see why religion should get a free slate. I would be very dissapointed if they buckled.
 

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Ok. Can they perhaps explain how a fictional depiction of a deity can be disrespectful and trivializing to its followers, questions about the real or fictional nature of the deity itself notwithstanding? That's the part that I can't wrap my head around. Thanks.
 

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felbot said:
oh now i definitely hope they include the abrahamic god and include allah incase the muslims wanna protest too.
Very unlikely that they do, the cristian faith would go up in arms protesting and sueing and the muslims (the very dangerous minority) would do much more than that. However I think the game developers expected that to happen, if not count on it for free publicity, it is easy to mess with hindu, tao and buddist figures, since they are more or less the peacefull ones of this world (see Vishnu doing coke in South Park).
 

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I have been seeing a lot of comments along the lines of, "It's good to see people from different religions rallying together for a common cause". I for one think it's about time people started working together.

My only problem I have with this, is that they aren't doing it for the sake of the world and humanity, but to get a video game's depiction of their god/gods changed. Why don't they make a combined effort and join together in solving some of the biggest problems in our world, like famine, poverty and disease? Sure it's not as easy as writing it down here and then being done, but you have to start somewhere and anything that you do makes a difference.
 

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Hmm, this is a interesting issue:

One the one hand I see their point, all religion should be respected and its good to see people of various faiths joining together

On the other hand its a video game and censorship is an awful thing, anyone who saying they have no reason to be upset (AKA most of the "Lol-so-atheist" members of this site) is being silly but maybe they should focus this joining of religion on something a tad more prominent, like hate, that needs to be stopped.
 

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Orlake said:
The only appropriate response:


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Well glad to see their capable of protesting more then same-sex-marriage.
 

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1337mokro said:
rcs619 said:
felbot said:
Seriously though, if Smite offends these guys, their heads are going to explode whenever they find out about the Shin Megami Tensei series. lol
LOL :D

Oh I had a good laugh when I read that.

But seriously people stop being butthurt over a game. First of all it's not slandering your religion it's just using figures as heroes. Second of all your religion is not protected from slander.

I can say anything I want about it whenever I want to. So please, go cry in the corner silently.
Sigh... So it's okay if gamers get offended when Samus takes a character turn that they don't appreciate, but a religion getting offended that their gods, that they hold as absolute truth, are getting put into a fighting game where they can lose to another religions god is just them being bitchy and not knowing that they've already lost?

Personally I can see their point and sort of agree with them, I certainly wouldn't want to see my mother or father or some other person I hold near and dear getting their face beaten in by someone as a game. Though Hindus and Buddhists getting together for something isn't at all surprising for anyone that has studied Indian history for more then five minutes.
 

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Wow, such an interesting thread. On one hand, we have the respectful people speaking up and saying, "Great to see them come together, but ehhh, not sure about the game".

Then you have all the hypocrites (I can finally use this word!) who bash on religions and tell them to respect and accept other religions/sexualities/etc. in one thread, then coming here and being extremely disrespectful because of a calm statement of their views.

"Respect other peoples views bigots!"
"What? We cant have your God's murder each other? To hell with your views."

Onto the original topic though... This is a great thing to hear. Standing up for their beliefs and standing together on it to. Kinda reminds me of this.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/03/5981906-christians-protect-muslims-during-prayer-in-cairos-dangerous-tahrir-square?lite