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Spore Upsets Christians

The hyped Spore was released last week and the reactions have been many and mixed. Overall the game is well received, even if it has some things it could improve upon. One of the main things people have complained about is the DRM-protection SecuROM, but now it there's a new form of complaint surfacing – from Christian gamers.

The site Antispore.com criticize the game because of its concept of evolution, something that they feel are against their own Christian values. The site says that the whole game is propaganda focused against kids to teach them about evolution instead of creation or intelligent design. While the site is negative against Spore, they also take the opportunity to attack Electronic Arts and their employees, claiming they have low Christian morale.

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  • Darkamon said 
    Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:24 PM ()

    You know, I worship a peanut butter sandwich as well... It sits on my shoulder right now giving me strength and wisdom for it has greater plans for me. Prove me wrong...

    The mistake people make is this one: I say there is nothing, you say there is something, you don't get born with an image of religion in your head, you have been thought this bullcrap, it's a ritual we call indoctrination. I don't have to prove there is nothing; you have to prove there is something for it is you that says there is more. Every argument for religion has been wiped of the face of the earth by science, except for one... "The -What was before that" - question. : First there was a big bang, before that there was....

    Of course the only logical explanation is an all-powerful being that created everything???

    Lol, the belief that there has always been an invisible man and that the invisible man magically created the world and two people. These two people turned into billions of people and the invisible man threatened all the people with an eternity of torture unless they showered him in praise and build many things in his honor. Then the invisible man wrote a book through a ghost writer but the people change the book regularly so it means what they want it to mean. All this happened because the man was bored one day....

    SOUNDS REASONABLE ???

    Darkamon, 70 undead mage, Azjol-Nerub

  • Yutaka said 
    Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:24 PM ()

    lol Here's an excerpt from some scriptures this guy is quoting in his blog:

    Genesis 8:21-27
    “21. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never gonna give you up. 22. “Never gonna let you down.” 23.”Never gonna run around and desert you.” 24. “Never gonna make you cry.” 25. “Never gonna say goodbye.” 26. “Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.” 27.”Never truly believe anything you read on the Internet. There will always be cases of Poe’s Law.”

    This guy just totally rickrolled everyone that was taking him seriously, lol

    For the record though, I'm about as devout a Christian as they come, and I'm excited to go get Spore as soon as I have time. Not everything in scripture is literal, and I doubt that the 7 day creation thing was 7 days as man currently counts them. I wish those extremists out there that give the rest of us a bad name would just go live a peaceful life like Jesus taught, choose the right, and quit getting all angry and upset when others don't share their beliefs. Good grief, just grow up PLEASE.

    Edit: CRAP! They updated the story just as I was posting my comment! /fail

  • DanTGF said 
    Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:24 PM ()

    What those creationists neglect to mention are the holes in genesis (not phill collins' band thats got its own issues). Basically God created Adam & Eve....they did what comes naturally and had a couple of kids, 2 boys, Cain & Abel. At first glance you could look at that and say if all mankind came from those 2 people then those poor boys are on the road to an Oedipus complex....however as they grew up one of those boys decided to leave home.....and he found a wife! Now where do you think she came from???

    Now either god created more than just Adam and Eve or that young man decided that he would rather marry a goat than get it on with his mum....either way those nutjobs that take the story of creation just a little too literal are blind to its glaringly obvious flaws.

    And the other ovious fact these people are refusing to see is that its just a game! No more real than the Transformers and no more blasphemous either

  • reinberg said 
    Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:24 PM ()

    screw the christians

  • Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:24 PM ()

    As a strong Christian (completely by my own choice, by the way), I have 2 things to say:

    1- Get an intelligent argument besides "brainwashing". Seriously. If it's been used to argue with people on Youtube, I guarantee there are better arguments. I don't have the time to do my whole debate on this, though I would love to. Essentially I believe being created by an intelligent being makes more sense than the Big Bang Theory (in the words of Terry Pratchett: "in the beginning there was nothing.... which exploded")

    2- Note to these super-saints that think Spore is anti-God: EVOLUTION HAPPENED AND IS STILL HAPPENING, AND WILL HAPPEN UNTIL THE WORLD ENDS (possibly in 2012).There is evidence of this everywhere. To say otherwise is ignorance or stupidity.

    Once you get to know me you will find I am a very peculiar Christian ;)

  • Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:24 PM ()

    I think it's "If the music's too loud, you're too old".

    I'm a firm believer that heaven is an eternal mosh-pit.

  • Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:24 PM ()

    Well-said. There are definitely idiots on both sides of the creationism/big bang argument, and I'm asad to say I used to be one of them.

    USED to be :P