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"Get a life, for God's sake"

***DO NOT READ IF HEAVILY RELIGIOUS AND THEREFORE OFFENDED BY EVERYTHING***

I'm sorry about moaning so much on such a lovely Sunday afternoon, and who knows, maybe the heat has got me in a state where I'm annoyed far too easily, but I thought this had to be said:

Religious people (aimed primarily at people who have extreme Christian beliefs) and idiots who campaign against any form of media that contains even slight amounts of mature content, please shut up. Why are you offended by absolutely everything? Why do you seek to get all computer games that aren't specially made (and therefore crap) Christian titles banned? Why do you see it necessary to force your opinions on to everyone else? Why do you write 5-page letters of complaint about games that you haven't even played?

Reading up on the internet on a Christian organisation's reviews of games, I was actually offended at some of the complete and total rubbish they wrote. Check out these quotes:

In a review of Gran Turismo 3: "..the soundtrack of rock music may concern..."
Right. So that's the soundtrack that contains no explicit or offensive lyrics at all, then?

In a review of Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee: "I cannot recommend the game to anyone less than 17 years old."
Erm...why?
"...the game is filled with occultic overtones, shamans, chanting, resurrecting the dead..."
It's a bloody game!

The quotes were taken from: http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/games

Mary Whitehouse was another one who really annoyed me. I remember watching a clip of her on a programme during C4's 'banned season' where she accused people who enjoy watching violent or offensive films as "lacking in intelligence". I see that as being kind of ironic coming from a raging homophobe.

But then, I guess these kind of people are too stupid to realise that the more fuss they stir up, the better the game/film they are trying to ban will sell.

Nevertheless, I hate them all.

phi11ip wrote:
> [URL]http://www.capalert.com/capreports/southpark.htm[/URL]
>
> I posted this ages ago, but it's still amazingly funny to read.

I remember that.

3 letter swear word?

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Dig out that letter to Mary Whitehouse if you want a similar laugh or
> two.

Jesus Christ she was a b*tch.

[URL]http://www.capalert.com/capreports/southpark.htm[/URL]

I posted this ages ago, but it's still amazingly funny to read.

I'm still waiting for some religious nut to come out and say we shouldn't breathe because we could be breathing in the air of bad people and it could taint you and send you to hell or some other such crap.

Exactly, they just take everything far too seriously. Not all of them of course, and they are all entitled to their own opinions, but a lot of them who I have met seem somewhat robotic.

It doesn't make sense even moreso because it is based in a fantasy world. So therefore the Bible has no relevance.

Well there is this other Christian website that gave The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time a B- overall becasue of its inappropriate usage of the way of how the Godesses that protected the Triforce created the world, and they found that offensive to their religion, however they loved the game as a whole.

That doesn't make sense.

Rai wrote:
> According to the bible, some
> christians believe that all religions have a right to co-exist. So if
> you made a religion about playing video games, they'd have to accept
> it.
>
> I love finding loopholes in the bible...

erm, how is that a loophole?

Paradox: wrote:
> I want to play a game where I'm a muslim extremist and I can bomb the
> embassy.
>
> It should contain nudity.

Margeret? Margeret?

Do we have any games where you play the role of a muslim extremist who can bomb the embassy...containing nudity?

Alfonse wrote:
> I'm a christian but not a serious one. I totally agree with you.

Bit ironic seeing as you said it was wrong of journalists to broadcast images of starving people...