{"id":2920,"date":"2009-06-26T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T10:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/06\/christians-upset-over-video-ga.html"},"modified":"2009-06-26T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T10:33:35","slug":"christians-upset-over-video-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/06\/christians-upset-over-video-ga.html","title":{"rendered":"Fake Video Game Protest Angers Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dantesinfernogame.jpg\"<\/span>The marketing department over at video game company Electronic Arts (EA) are geniuses! As promotion for an upcoming video game, Dante’s Inferno, they staged a fake protest outside<\/a> their recent video game conference in Los Angelos.
\nAccording to the website Game Politics, protestors carried around signs<\/a> that read, “EA = anti-Christ” and “My high score is in Heaven,” leading witnesses to believe the protesters were Christian and were upset over the game’s content.
\nThe game itself is inspired by “Inferno,”<\/a> the first book of the poem “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri’s where the character experience hell, where sinners are punished. The video game character apparently has a cross for a weapon.
\nSome bloggers are taking issue with the publicity stunt, saying it was anti-Christian:
\nFrom the Catholic Video Gamers blog:<\/a><\/p>\n

Gamers of all varieties will buy this product if its, well, actually a good game. So instead of engaging in a shamelessly anti-Christian stunt to promote your poor excuse of a product, maybe you ought to work on making this game, you know, something better than a blatant God of War rip-off and make it, ya know, something worthwhile? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nNow, while I cannot attest to whether this game is a “God of War rip off” since I’ve never seen it (or God of War, to be quite honest) I am interested in what exactly was so anti-Christian about the protest.
\nIt’s really not that much of a stretch of the imagination to think<\/em> some Christians might <\/em> be offended at a game about hell. So why not play off of that to promote a game?
\nWhat do you think? What’s anti-Christian about pretending to protest a game on faith-based grounds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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