quote="Lonan" post="7.108534.1832809"]People really need to think before they act. Good people worship these Gods in a somewhat metaphorical way. The Hindu's have a god of computer technology, they don't think of their God's in the same way Christians do. You need to keep in mind that people do respect these God's and not to just use them for the sake of entertainment. People need to respect other's religion when those who practice it have nothing against them and are not intending to harm them. These are good people you're offending, don't completely disrespect people's religion because you think all religion is pointless. Richard Dawkins would probably have more respect than these people, because they aren't trying to force their beliefs on others which dispute hard gained science, they're trying to prevent others from from doing as they please with their God's. You could hardly consider the Hindu's to be the bad people in this. The developers started it, they made a mistake. They should have thought before they made this that people actually believe in the God's they are using in their game. The developers are the ones who are doing the pushing in this, the protesters are just saying "Hey, don't push us."
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I'm going to add that what they should have done was asked some people. When you just burst into someone's territory and assuming it can be used as you please, people get angry, and will be unlikely to be accomodating, in fact if they were after all that, they should really do exercise and eat vegatables and whatever else you have to do to raise your testosterone levels. For example, under the Bush Administration, the United States declared Canada's North-West Passage international territory, even though ocean 200 miles from a nations coast is offcially the the territory of that nation. Canada simply wanted the United States to ask to use the North-West Passage, but ooooooooooh no. Good ol' George said he would send destroyers through the North-West Passage because he considers it international waters. Obama hasn't exactly been a 180 turn from that, he pretty much isn't saying anything, which means silently agreeing as far as I'm concerned, but has backed off on the destroyers. If you just ask instead of completely ignoring the people whose territory you're stepping on, they will usually be more accomodating then if you just tell them to talk to the hand and step on it anyway.[/quote]
I would a agree wholeheartedly with the previous poster. Making the game was a little stupid. Well, alot stupid. So, the people in india shouldnt buy it, if they dont want to, and in the future, developers wont release games that feature widespread, currently-worshiped gods. Not because of government bans or censorship, but because people wouldnt buy the game. Problem solved.
But, you cant decide not to depict a god just because someone, somewhere worships that god, and might be offended. That would be...retarded. For reasons that should be plain.
I do have to say one or two things regarding "pagans"
1. "pagan" is a word often used by christians as a catch-all term for relgions which dont have a biblical source. In the same way that civil servants use the word "private sector" and people in general use the word "foreigners." What pagan actually refers to, If I understand it properly, is the old european faiths, celtic, ect. "pagan" may have been co-opted when modern new-agers started to worship a variety of dead religions. which brings me to:
2> I'll admit I dont have much information on the subject of modern worshipers of greek and scandinavian gods, but I can offer a general opinion: Why? Those religions died some time ago, and entered Public Domain, in a sense. The very fact that no one beleived in those gods anymore made them cross-cultural icons.
Let me give you a related example. Astrology is sad and stupid, while alchemy is cool. The reason for this state of affairs: Nobody beleives in alchemy anymore. We can treat it with a distance, and throw it into RPGs and fantasy games, and warp and twist it into the fantasy equivalent of chemistry, but with more exploding acid. But astrology? a mild distraction for the terminally hard-of-thinking. It might become cooler and more evocative if nobody beleived in it, but the fact that people still do should be an embarassment for the entire human race.
You cant come along after the fact, and claim to worship Zeus, and them complain when people make media that makes light of you god. Pop culture owned zeus before you did.
3. Why would anybody worship zeus/odin/ect in a non-ironic way? They dont have the reassurance that most religions have of millions of other adherents bolstering your resolve. Christians can maintain faith despite some of the more ridiculous bits of it because they have millions of other people reassuring them that its all true, even people of other religions. The existance of jews, catholics, protestants, and muslims all give alot of support to the idea that, right-or-wrong, some variant of christianty is, if not the "right" religion, then its the winning one.
4. Sorry, but greek mythology, while a hoot to read, doesnt make compelling religion to anyone with a modern education. Christians and Hindus were brainwashed from birth, and culturally indoctrinated to believe in theif faiths despite the objections of their common sense. What's your excuse?
(admitteldy, Hinduism is a pretty decent religion all around. It doesnt interfere with logical thought over-much, it adapts to new situations easily, and it doesnt evangelize. America would be a better place if we switched from christianity to hinduism)
