And on the 7th day, God played Spore

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I have hopefully come accross, or at least sometimes mentioned, my religious backgrounds.  I am a Christian.  I say this only because of the character of which this article will be about, and his apparently militant faith.

A few months ago, I had one heck of a lot of fun with the Spore Creature Creator.  It is more addicted and incredibly fun as a bag of mables being held by a bucket of monkeys that stacked together, a la Construction, building another monkey.  Dont ask how, but I know how fun both are.  I have my ways.

Unless you are named Van Winkle, in that case, you are excused from not knowing of the ever-infamous Jack Thompson issue.  He was a fourth-rate lawyer that constantly tried to bring down companies like Rockstar for their production of apparent murder simulators.  Their relation?  Neither seem to have actually played either of their respective videogames.

Will Wright, in his genius, pioneered the ‘God-sim’ genre.  Sim City still has a massive following.  For a long time, The Sims (and its multiple sequels and expansion packs) even held the record for best selling video game ever.  Black and White, not as revolutionary, was still a greatly received game and helped anchor his foot into this new genre of his.

Regardless, this came as a surprise to me.  As is any written text, the Bible is up for numerous amounts of interpretation (and why so many denominations) and thusly the Genesis story has been talked about for ages.  The, as of now unnamed, ‘Anti-Spore’ militant, has been quoting the Bible and trying to call EA and Will Wright evil.

I think it is entirely possible that God created civilizations on other planets.  But because Will Wright has brainwashed Frank Drake into thinking that life in the universe gave rise to “super humans” on other planets that are better than us.

It is people like this that make me embarassed to be a Christian.  Had she not pulled another Jack Thompson by actually playing the game she would see how this game has been appropriately dubbed a God-sim.  Religious views aside, athiestic, agnostic or not - if God created the world, would this not be the best way for it to be done?  This game does not, in any way, try to unmount God in his throne at all.  You aren’t denying God, you are playing God, a pre-human God who is just having some fun.

In defense of Anti-Spore, she is seeing some of the light, she is just not noticing it on herself;

Someone informed me that an Attorney, Mr. Jack Thompson may be able to help me. As he has had much success in raising awareness about problem video games.

Does anyone know how I can get in touch with him?

Turns out that Jack Thompson is a terrible lawyer.
People are emailing me so much stuff, I don’t know which people are being sincere and which are not.

For example, I got a message from the supposed mayor of McCamish, KS. Claiming that he will make sure the game is kept out of their store.  I have no way to verify the info, though.

Far too often do I see Christian groups and individuals in a chronic poise to defend themselves.  I see where this is coming, I understand it.  But really, quit trying to be so damned ignorant.  You are making us all look like Jack Thompson-kin.

EDIT: Be it a Rick Roll or not, all the points I made in this thread are applicable.  As said in the linked Destructoid page, “Frankly though, it could’ve gone either way. There are plenty of people out there who would agree with the site.”

Tags: christian, ea, jack thompson, spore

Palin on the Bullshit

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As proud a Chrisian I am, I am a horrible one.  I tend to break, on average, 2 commandments before each meal.  I say this in an attempt to shake off the vibe that I think I am, as is a stereotypical judgement of Christians, better than anyone in the world.

The one thing, however, I think I do properly is take offense when someone refers to my faith derogitorily, or tries to insult it.  Lately,, these offences have originated inside my ‘religion’.

Sarah Palin is not the culprit, in this case, but she is indirectly related to my problem.

James Dobson went from not supporting John McCain to becoming an enthusiastic cheerleader for the Republican presidential ticket in six short months.

David, M. (2008). Palin no strangers to Focus on the Family.  Retrieved September 5, 2008, from Rocky Mountain News.  Web site: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/02/palin-no-stranger-focus-family/

My problem?  It is how, an otherwise terribly inexperienced woman - her political career is being mayor of a small city, Wasilla, (just over 5,000 residents) to the 12th governor of Alaska for… less than 2 years.  But alas, in McCain’s otherwise horrendous campaign that was more against Obama than for himself, and his inability to pronounce letters other than P, O and W, this may be the first smart thing McCain has done since the one time he met her before election.

Smart however, only in the race to the November election.  And even still, not all American’s are dirt-retarded as McCain is, or thinks they are.  But my issue is not with the American populace in itself, but in the Christian organizations that have been, until Palin’s VPenis, entirely against the Republicans.

James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family has been flip-flopping around this topic for a while.  McCain is more a fan of Bush than Samantha Ronson, “…and I am particularly talking about the war on terror, the war on Iraq…” (@ 0:36).

What is the difference between September 2, 2008 and Dobson’s quote here?

“War affects families most of all,” Dr. Dobson noted, “and it would be irresponsible for Focus on the Family and other evangelical organizations to ignore that suffering. The Iraq War has been devastating not only to American families, but to Iraqi families as well.”

The pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter, Bristol was released only 4 days after her assignment as McCain’s VP.  How can this woman not know she is a damn gimmick?  These two dates are far too close to not be related.

So, according to Dr. James Dobson, abortion is a more important issue than the war in Iraq.  Personally, I disagree with it, and I would respect his opinion on either side, but I take insult to such a flip-flop in opinions.  They have far too much influence on other Religious folks voting stance for them to take this so lightly.

But don’t worry Sarah, I don’t know what a VP does either.

Tags: christian, dobson, election, focus on the family, iraq, mcain, war