There’s nothing surprising about a video game causing a stir among religious groups.  What is surprising is that the game causing such a fuss is Spore.  Not a bloody first person shooter or a sexually explicit Japanese import, but a harmless life-sim.  Why are people all up in arms about one of the most charming, endearing, adorable games we’ve seen in years?  Well, apparently, designing your own creatures and having them evolve to adapt to their environment goes against the theory of Creationism.  That’s the position taken by the not-so-subtly-named Antispore.com, anyway.  The WordPress site, which went up the same day as the game’s launch, is filled with posts decrying the sinful nature of Will Wright’s newest creation.  There’s even one post that comes out and specifically calls Will Wright “evil,” and blasts him for belonging to a church that allows homosexual clergymen.  The curator of the site also has a major problem with the fact that the game allows people to create creatures with oversized genitals, or even creatures that look like two people having sex.

While reading over the decidedly entertaining posts and comments, it occurred to me that something may not be on the up-and-up.  Is it possible that the whole thing is a hoax?  While the arguments made by the author seem to sync with fundamentalist Christian beliefs, the tone of the whole thing seems almost too righteous and “holier than thou” to be real.  There’s also the fact that on many pages on the site, the first Google ad on the right side of the page is actually for Spore!  As much as I hate to send traffic to what is potentially a scathing, nonsensical game-hate page, I would love to hear what you guys think.  Is it real or not?

And if it is real, here’s a note to the author; if making goofy creatures in a PC game is enough to threaten your faith in a higher power and even your entire concept of reality, maybe your faith is not as strong as you like to purport.  Oh, and if it’s fake; I don’t get it.

 

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