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It is game-created footage, it is not video or photography. It is entertainment, like Doctor Who or any other science fiction. It is not based on reality at all. Throughout the whole process we have sought permission where necessary. This is an important issue. For many young people these games offer a different sort of reality and seeing guns in Manchester cathedral is not the sort of connection we want to make. Every year we invite hundreds of teenagers to come and see the cathedral and it is a shame to have Sony undermining our work. |
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nobody even cares that its a cathedral...especially gamers who are not from england. i live in england, although not in manchester, and have never seen this cathedral in real life, even if i had i wouldnt have recognised it. the only people who will notice its a real building are those from manchester...and even then people may not make the connection - and if they do..they won tcare that its in the game and it certainly wont make them have real 'gun battles' at the said building.
aye. since when can we take the oppinions of a reverand who spends most of his time speaking to a theoretical entity, and reading the book with more violence than any other, how is this logical, if guns were inventet earlier they would be in the bible. meh
i live not far from manchester, and the cathederal is nothing like the actual thing. just thought u may want to know from a 1st hand point of view
take this People,
Church of England staff PLAYS PS3,
they bought RESISTANCE.
they manage to go to later levels on the game, which not a very easy task, specially if you are not a GAMER.
i smell paid CONSPIRACY, this is just a part of it.
Sony facing too many allegations, from blu-ray coatings to security softwares and heck even 3d graphical depiction of a church. Sony is not handling its PR people, they allow themseleves to be slaughtered trialed and even unfairly judged, a japanese company in a foreign land, what great headache specially if you are being ganged-up. if this conspiracy succeeds, sony may eventually just concentrate on its motherland, and release product ONLY in JAPAN, if ever this happens, it will be a crime to use a sony product outside of japan, no more playstations for you gaijins, no more psp's for you gaijins, no more bravia 1080p for you gaijins, no effing sony innovation for you effing gaijins.
if this happens the monopolization and ridiculously overpriced will forced on the gaijin consumer.
no more profits stupid
and I am still waiting for something innovative
from sony
LOL!!!!hahahaha,man this is reall low chruch.a spokesman said its encouraging people to have gun battles in a church??thatll be with the 8ft muscle bound aliens that are wondering around the cathedral this time of day?
the games about defending planet earth from an alien invasion,its like saying,its encouraging you to have gun battles in the street,just because your in the street in the game,or,even a house,that could be my home,or even yours!lets go get some guns!
god hasnt the church got anything better to do
So apparently it's alright for the church officials to molest little boys, but God forbid there's a depiction of a church with *Gasp* GUNS! Organized religion is a joke.
Video games != real life.
You are an idiot, at least they have wormed out these type of people and brought them to justice,not like some religions who still hide these scum from prosecution.
Bit like anti fox hunters isnt it, they protest about fox hunting(where the fox at least has a chance of escaping) but they say or do NOTHING about slitting a goats throat and let it slowly bleed to death in the name of some religion..
Beautiful comment... Just beatufil... I think i'm crying.
church officials you are refering too are catholic that is a prod church just to clarify! there is a serious difference!
I can't believe how intolerance is ruling the world now. People feel the right, speaking as a representative of the whole community, to criticise everything. If something bother someone, instead of accepting the fact other people does not put importance in it at all, they start a war in the name of injustice or blasphemy. Those people are egocentric bastard that think their rights are a lot more important than all other peoples right.
you're right everyone is so selfish and whiney these days. It is almost like entire groups of people ar PMSing
Yeah, its so realistic people just might believe that its real life... I don't know for sure whats going on in England but I reckon if there were lots of weird aliens running around the place trying to destroy the human race it would have got a mention in the international news down here in Australia.
I'm sick of all these 'respectable' (note the sarcasm) organisations/people putting down peoples hard work and creativity to promote their 'ethics' (again note sarcasm).
To me, I feel that religion is nothing but a pile of bull*****. I just can't stand it anymore, if you turn on the tv and ever watch the news it's crazy. Half the people that start wars with each other (Jews & Palestinians) is all about religion. Look at what happened to the Jewish people in WWII, no pun intended. If there never was religion, I think this world would be a much better place. O yea, and look at those terrorists, 9/11 wouldn't have ever happened if it wasn't for religion. Muslims think it's a great human sacrafice to kills yourself in the name of Allah. It's all bull*****, in my opinion, religion should be gone. I truly believe this world would be a much better place to live.
religion is necessary. think about it? religion has driven people to way more positive aspects of life then negative. religion is a good way to believe in something positive and bring people together. w/o religion we wouldnt even have any holidays u stupid crap faced bi**h. but besides that i am catholic and feel that their is nothing wrong w/shooting in the church that is not even real. i mean cmon
Not all religion is bad, not all start wars in name of their believes. Saying all religion should be gone is as intolerance as this article.
Religion is a waste of time... worshiping something that doesn't even exist...bunch of idiots
Sweden seems to be fine and dandy, and the majority are wat is it called atheist? shows how much religion is needed.
No, Muslims don't believe its good to kill yourself in the name of Allah. Its idiots like Binladin who teach kids its okay to kill innocents. Read the Koran and tell me where it says you can kill in the name of god. And you know Allah is the arabic word for God right? You make it sound like Muslims have a different god then Jews and Christians.
I'm Muslim and I think war over religion is bull****. Everyone should just worship their own religion and mind their own business. What is war going to lead? You'll just keep on killing innocents until everyone is dead or its too late to fix anything. People are not going to change their minds so why start a war with them if they are gladly willing to die for their beliefs?
Religion is good for keeping order, and giving people a reason to live and a standard of living. Its when dumb***s use religion to promote their agendas. Thats when religion hurts the world.
mgsrock (even though i ant muslim) and to Kevin and Someone: have fun burning in hell
Sorry to dissapoint you, but me, Kevin, and somebody won't be burning in hell. Because you see, according our religion, those who don't believe in god are going to burn in hell. So we don't have to worry about that. Have fun burning in hell.
they only want JODER!!!
a church ??? omg not only did gta make a good game they had to take out hot coffee dam who ever it was is setting up losses for many things think about it after rockstar got sued ... critizing and blaming games for lifes everyday problems is becoming a fad these day even a church???? if anything this church is corrupt trying to sue a company for putting a cathedral inside a game with gunz WTF???? how the hell cuase any problems ??? if anything u could sue COD 2 ive seen alot cathedrals in that game but no u gotta take shot at the big guy to achieve what ?? youre own gain ?? pathetic i hope they goto hell
The religion isn't bad.. just the people that represent it sometimes... u can't blame any religion for people acts... there are bad and stupid people in all places and why not a guy in a church.. saying that.. I will talk about the topic... that church if is a real church is bad ok... but if that church insomniac only put a fictional church... well isn't a holy place then because isn't a church in real life... just another building...
my class went on a rs trip to the cathedral just after i'd completed the manchester level on resistance. Must say that isomniac did very well, apart from a few exceptions the cathedral in the game is pretty much like a carbon copy :)
this must be one of the stupidest thing i've ever heard. i mean, come on, its just a game, its not real, no one was killed in it, it wasn't tainted with blood or anything.
oh and to those who said religion was bull, remember, it was religion who brought math and all those logic you so highly respect of. so don't go around saying religion is bull**** when it was religion itself who saved your ass from the dark ages.
lol
Religion and science(or...pretty much EVERYTHING else) walks in opposite way...
Remember, you can't prove anything in any religion....you can't prove that "god" exist...
Religion is used to control the people who have weak mind.
You guys that follows any religion is just a bunch of mindless puppets...
Don't get upset just because you believe in a god that YOU THINK it exists...it might exist in your head...
thats funny ... I thought it was the renaissance and the age of reason. I guess thats just a history majors perspective though.
Logic came from religion....wow! yeah its SO logical to pray to being without any existance of proof. funny I thought Logic came from the greeks. and mathamatics while mastered by the muslims. wasnt invented by religion.
heres a quote from mathmojo.com
"Eventually, about 400 years after South Asia and Asia Minor had been using 0 and inventing and discovering math concepts the we in the west couldn't even consider (because we were busy being "religiously enlightened" and culturally superior) 0 finally got to the civilized world."
You always meet that family that is so religious that you feel bad for them....
I take it you also hate Mosques etc
problem solved...
As far as I'm concerened the Church has always had a problem distinguising reality from fiction, if you don't believe me read the bible!! Whilst I understand that some people need 'faith' I thought that most religion was about tollerance? I don't mind if you want to pray to Mecca, believe the Pope is Gods messanger on Earth or wave at the Sun on the Summer Solstice, noe of it appeals to me, and as I respect your views please don't impress your hypocryical belief systems on me. As for Matematics being attributed to religion, please check you history, you'll find it most enlightening. Oh and the holidays? Whilst they can be attributed to religion, it's not the Christions you have to thank, it's those 'Wicker Man' Pagens that came up with...
A mid-winter feast complete with a log that burnt for days.
A spring cellabration of the Goddess E-Aster. Usually arond the equinoxe.
Ever wondered about Harvest festival? Let me see how long has Humanity been farning?
Bored now, nobody is going to believe me anyway.
As far as I'm concerened the Church has always had a problem distinguising reality from fiction, if you don't believe me read the bible!! Whilst I understand that some people need 'faith' I thought that most religion was about tollerance? I don't mind if you want to pray to Mecca, believe the Pope is Gods messanger on Earth or wave at the Sun on the Summer Solstice, noe of it appeals to me, and as I respect your views please don't impress your hypocryical belief systems on me. As for Matematics being attributed to religion, please check you history, you'll find it most enlightening. Oh and the holidays? Whilst they can be attributed to religion, it's not the Christians you have to thank, it's those 'Wicker Man' Pagens that came up with...
A mid-winter feast complete with a log that burnt for days.
A spring cellabration of the Goddess E-Aster. Usually around the equinoxe.
Ever wondered about Harvest festival? Let me see how long has Humanity been farning?
Bored now, nobody is going to believe me anyway.
cod3 has a church in it, whydont they sue them?
Because they are xbot fanboys!!
CoD3 isn't sony IP...
Bobby lol
i live in england and i fink the church of england need to stop moaning
Microsoft prolly paid the church of england to start all this commotion. I mean, what religion would turn down money.... (bastards)
What, is the CoE just a bunch of pussies? Why'd they wait so long to complain anyway?
If I were Sony, I'd just say "***** you, stop whining"
And then they sue Sony like the pussies they are...
Everyone of these *****s blame sony, when its actually insomniacs idea... People nowa days act like only they can be right. The way i see it they must be going crazy if they think were stupid enough to mix a game and real life. And instead of religion not being created i think money should be gone, because thats all these people want right now
it controls everything today.
Many religions believe that there is no such thing as aliens and that their existence would contradict the possibility of God.
So... technically it could upset a few people. However, the more probable situation is that this gives the Church of England press and God knows they need it! Maybe if they started playing Resistance on Sunday mornings Catholics would suddenly remember where their 'house of God' is...
and have a LAN party in the basement.
*cough* Catholicism takes on bad punch after another making itself the biggest mockery of the past two thousand years.
What do you expect? Humans will change? lol
my parents try to make go church i tell em its *****in trash
Thats absolutely histerical. We just randomly evolved from nothing? Sry.....YOU r the insane ppl to completely believe in human's remote knowledge of the past.
There is no scientific law that allows something to evolve from nothing. if there was nothing in the universe to begin with, obviously nothing could happen to cause anything to appear.
Of crs mental ppl breed in this world i no
No, Muslims don't believe its good to kill yourself in the name of Allah. Its idiots like Binladin who teach kids its okay to kill innocents. Read the Koran and tell me where it says you can kill in the name of god. And you know Allah is the Arabic word for God right? You make it sound like Muslims have a different god then Jews and Christians. I'm Muslim and I think war over religion is bull****. Everyone should just worship their own religion and mind their own business. What is war going to lead? You'll just keep on killing innocents until everyone is dead or its too late to fix anything. People are not going to change their minds so why start a war with them if they are gladly willing to die for their beliefs? Religion is good for keeping order, and giving people a reason to live and a standard of living. Its when dumb***s use religion to promote their agendas. Thats when religion hurts the world.
No, Muslims don't believe its good to kill yourself in the name of Allah. Its idiots like Binladin who teach kids its okay to kill innocents. Read the Koran and tell me where it says you can kill in the name of god. And you know Allah is the Arabic word for God right? You make it sound like Muslims have a different god then Jews and Christians. I'm Muslim and I think war over religion is bull****. Everyone should just worship their own religion and mind their own business. What is war going to lead? You'll just keep on killing innocents until everyone is dead or its too late to fix anything. People are not going to change their minds so why start a war with them if they are gladly willing to die for their beliefs? Religion is good for keeping order, and giving people a reason to live and a standard of living. Its when dumb***s use religion to promote their agendas. Thats when religion hurts the world.

