Turn the Other Cheek

[Mr C]

I have to agree that believing in a deity, Christian or otherwise should not interfere with games. In fact the Bible is full of potential inspirations:

Jesus going ape-shit because of merchants selling their wares in the temple is perfect for an old school scrolling fighter (such as Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle).

A God-sim, with the goal of assisting Moses in freeing the chosen people. This is achieved sending a load of nastiness towards those good for nothing Egyptians.

For those who want a non-violent game I present Genesis: The Videogame. A game allowing the player to create the world in 7 days. You decide what to make and how to make it with bonus points for creating everything in the correct order. DLC could be available allowing you to plant all the 'evidence' necessary to make sure those not chosen will believe the world is much older than it really is and fool them into thinking they are nothing more than dirty apes.

 

[Mr C]

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[Mr C]

Sorry, don't know why there are multiple posts? Perhaps divine intervention mocking my joke game ideas :s

 

[LogicNProportion]

Very well written article.

I'd like to point out while I got all the other christian references in Halo, I never made the connection with 'The Flood.' Seriously, I never realized that before and I fee like I can see forever, now that I do.

I'm slightly disappointed and impressed at the same time for there being no reference to Deus Ex, simply because it's awesome/too easy of a connection.

Overall, good job again, sir. As a Catholic (though a severely lapsed one), it's good to see others who can speak their thoughts clearly on the controversial topic, and do it well enough not to start a flame war.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

It's difficult to ever read something seriously when it's written by a religious person. How can one expect profundity from an article written in the context of abandoning logic and the scientific method? It's a bridge I find nigh impossible to cross.

 

[Doctor Proctor]

It's difficult to ever read something seriously when it's written by a religious person. How can one expect profundity from an article written in the context of abandoning logic and the scientific method? It's a bridge I find nigh impossible to cross.

It's a good thing you're not a scientist then, since you'd have to ignore the works of Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, Lord Kelvin, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and many others. Oh, or did you only mean people you actually KNOW are Christian/religious/spritual, and therefore feel you can freely dismiss?

If you stopped being so judgemental for a bit then perhaps you might open your eyes to see that people who believe in a higher power come from all walks of life and have very different ideals and pursuits, and then you wouldn't be so quick to lump them all into the same narrow group. Even the most cursory application of logic would dictate that since some scientists are Christian, that not all Christians ignore the tenants of the scientific method. Of course, you could test my hypothesis by doing research into this yourself, also known as the scientific method. Try that next time before completely ignoring facts and evidence to the contrary because it suits your own beliefs better.