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Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008

A religious nutter has launched an anti-Spore website to let Electronic Arts know that its "biggest attack on Christian values to date will not be tolerated."

Antispore.com condemns Spore's teaching of the very un-Christian theory of evolution, which it says is an attempt on the games industry's part to "invade our homes and poison the minds of our children."

It says: "Yesterday I found out about a new game called Spore when my son asked me to buy it for him. It looked innocent enough at first and has E for Everyone ESRB rating. But don't be mislead, apparently 'everyone' means everyone they want to teach evolution to.

"This entire game is propaganda aimed directly at our children to teach them evolution instead of creationism, or 'intelligent design' if you go for stupid PC terms.

"The object of the game is to evolve from a 'spore' into demon-like intelligent space creatures that violently take over the galaxy," continues the site.

The site goes on to attack EA and it's 8,500 employees, "not a single one with enough Jesus to stand up and say what they are doing is wrong," it says.

"I used to like Will Wright," continues Anti-Spore.com. "He created Sim City, a fantastic game that celebrated the earth that God created for us and allowed you to use all your God given abilities to make an ideal society. But if you ever felt like you had too much power, God would come in with a tornado or an earthquake and put you back in place.

"You would think that as a member of the Episcopal Church, a smart man like Will Wright would not be capable of creating Spore. However, we must be reminded that the Episcopal Church is the only church in america that ordains homosexuals on a regular basis.

"It makes sense that a perverted church would cause a man to make the creations he has in this game. It just may be that evolution is not the only thing to fear this game teaching your children.

"[EA's] billions in revenue and all the advertising in the world are no match for the power of God."

WTF!? I honestly don't know what to say

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=196847

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Jesus would play Spore before he played Halo.
Posted Sep 10, 2008 12:16 pm PT
lol if spore is an attack on christian values then why haven't I heard this sort of thing going on about other games such as sims. seriously religion is completely screwed up. I'm not saying that people take it too seriously, but... they do.
Posted Sep 10, 2008 1:16 pm PT
who cares
Posted Sep 10, 2008 2:44 pm PT
its impossible to take religion to seriously, but it is possible to attack the wrong thing in the name of religion. i dont know the right answer to this, but i do know IMO that this game shows intelligent design.
Posted Sep 10, 2008 10:10 pm PT
Posted Sep 11, 2008 2:15 am PT
Bang his head and make him try the game. Maybe that will change his opinion. Because he is nuts.
Posted Sep 11, 2008 9:38 am PT
It saddens me that people live their entire lives thinking like this, just stop whinging and enjoy life!
Posted Sep 12, 2008 7:32 am PT
Did you catch the news that this was all just a very elaborate rick roll?
Posted Sep 13, 2008 4:09 pm PT
Oh goody, jack thompson has a brother.
Posted Sep 13, 2008 7:07 pm PT
sophinaK: seriously? lol, i feel like a muppet

Kellymae: lol, haven't heard from him in a while, i wonder what he's up to
Posted Sep 14, 2008 3:23 am PT
The guy is making bank on the ads with every pageview. Just ignore the site.
Posted Sep 14, 2008 4:49 pm PT
Mxzysptlk: Will do
Posted Sep 15, 2008 12:52 pm PT
hashahahahhahahhahahahaahah that is without doubt the funniest thing i have read all year. thank you so much for sharing that with us that was just amazing
Posted Sep 16, 2008 1:49 pm PT
awwww just read all the comments.... not as funny anymore i so wish it was true haha. oh well
Posted Sep 16, 2008 1:51 pm PT
OK That would make me want to buy SPORE. What a moron
Posted Sep 16, 2008 6:32 pm PT
Posted Sep 17, 2008 9:33 am PT
Is he aiming at other Christians with this message or everyone?

Because he should remember that not everyone is Chrisitan and chooses not to follow Gods guidelines. Plus diablo we dont see it as religion we take our "religion" seriously because it gives us great hope in life and even after were dead. Just breaking it down for a level for you to understand. But the real meaning is much more deeper.

True they made a blog about this game but thats because they havent found another game while going to get this for thier child.

Horgen you offend me deeply with your words against us.
Posted Sep 17, 2008 9:42 am PT
and come on guys leave us alone. were not attacking you.
Posted Sep 20, 2008 11:37 am PT
"and come on guys leave us alone. were not attacking you."

What's his excuse for calling people like me "perverts"?
Posted Sep 20, 2008 3:20 pm PT
This angers me, a lot. lol
Posted Sep 29, 2008 4:08 pm PT
I agree with the site to a point that the game teaches evolution (which is against my christian faith), but I do find it ridiculous to say that this is the biggest attack on Christian values to date. Apparantly these people have never heard of Postal or GTA, games that are much more offensive towards religion then Spore. Why not attack those games instead of attacking a game rated E for Everyone? Showing the ideas of evolution is against christianity, but Spore isnt attacking religion.

And btw Will Wright describes himself as an "agnostic atheist", so he isnt exactly christian either...
Posted Oct 28, 2008 11:05 am PT
why so serious?
Posted Jun 30, 2009 3:54 am PT
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