Fantasy meets reality in Church row

mkpdavies · 11-06-2007, 09:04 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6738309.stm

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The Church says to base the Sony PlayStation 3 game Resistance: Fall of Man in a virtual cathedral - identical to Manchester Cathedral - is grossly insensitive.

It is not just the use of holy ground for the bloodthirsty game which has upset the clergy; it is the fact that Manchester has been so scarred by gun violence in recent years.

In fact, the cathedral has hosted memorial services for some of the victims. This is why the computer game has been branded "sick" by the Church.

Don't these whinging religous fruitbats have anything better to moan about? It's a friggin game, it's make believe you muppets.

TonyG · 11-06-2007, 09:12 PM

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religous fruitbats

Now where have I heard that phrase before?

Muppets just about sums them up. :roll:

John Carter · 11-06-2007, 09:47 PM

You're killing alien invaders for God. What's so bad about that?

TonyG · 11-06-2007, 09:52 PM

Sounds great! Does it get you extra brownie points for getting into heaven if you win?

g hall · 11-06-2007, 10:45 PM

Given the way the Anglican church is run I have a feeling that Jesus the Christ would be in the front with an AK47

rjt · 15-06-2007, 12:21 PM

The COE might speak with a little more authority had it not in the 1970s allowed Guildford Cathedral to be used as a backdrop to the film The Omen which dealt with the subject of the son of the horned beast.

rjt · 18-06-2007, 03:28 PM

I did hear that Sony has offered an apology as regards this matter.

11-06-2007, 09:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
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g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erewhon Posts: 5,638	Given the way the Anglican church is run I have a feeling that Jesus the Christ would be in the front with an AK47 __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." TANSTAAFL TANJ

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11-06-2007, 09:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
John Carter Uber Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: On Sabbatical Posts: 5,110	You're killing alien invaders for God. What's so bad about that?

15-06-2007, 12:21 PM	#6 (permalink)
rjt Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Aldershot Posts: 5,488	The COE might speak with a little more authority had it not in the 1970s allowed Guildford Cathedral to be used as a backdrop to the film The Omen which dealt with the subject of the son of the horned beast.

18-06-2007, 03:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
rjt Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Aldershot Posts: 5,488	I did hear that Sony has offered an apology as regards this matter.