And The Humorless Shall Lead Them

The DipSHOT:

Banned Faith Fighter game gets a caring sequel (Times online)

The SnapSHOT:

Muslim protests result in Molleindustria, the developer of Faith Fight, a Mortal Kombat-style fighting game featuring religious characters such as Jesus, Mohammed, and Ganesha, pulling the game from their site and replacing it with one in which you try to love all the religious figures equally.

The PotSHOT:

Freedom of speech certainly seems to be taking a back seat to religious drivel these days. From the Danish cartoon fiasco to this, the forces of monotheism are on the march against criticism, critique, and comedy. Molleindustria was making fun of this with their original game ("Choose your belief and kick the s*** out of your opponent.")

The Daily DipSHOT wonders if the protestors will notice that in its own way, this game is just as disrespectful to monotheistic religions as the original was. We suspect the developer of the new game intended it that way.

Just think for a minute what the world would be like if every teased party reacted with as much unholy zeal as the religious do. We couldn't make fun of religion, politics, art, music, or anything else. And the true irony is that the protestors in this case are showing exactly the same intolerance they're protesting about.

One has to wonder if this religious overreaction is not a defense mechanism caused by the deep-down suspicion that there is nothing real about any of these religions. 

Our favorite title on the Molleindustria site? "Operation Pedo-priest"!

BTW, you can still play the game here. 

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