Church of England Threatens Resistance: Fall of Man
FROM Bob in the Anorak Forums: (The story is here)
I see the Bishop of Manchester has lifted his cassock into a twist over some fantasy alien “shoot em up” game apparently set in a building he laughingly calls “gods house”.
No doubt the Bish craves the publicity as it might somehow be favourable to the CofE and get it on the front pages.
This to me says a great deal about this bunch of gormless CofE vicars.
Here we have an organisation which reportedly allows perverts to continue within its ranks. Reportedly effectively does sod all about them. Reportedly allows them to continue to have contact with young and vulnerable people over many years.
When the public and authorities finally get wise to these abusers - because eventually some adherents finally have the courage to go public - the CofE PR spokesmen and women offer trite and condescending words to those affected and to the rest of society which expects and demands much better.
Elsewhere in society strict rules and regulations apply but the church may or may not follow them. But then it is a religious organisation after all.
When one of their senior members is reportedly alleged to have been drunk and disorderly , chucking toys out of someone else’s car which presumably he wasn’t invited into , the whole episode is hushed up and no further action is taken by the Church leadership.
Compare these recent reportedly factual instances with the current contrived publicity.
A fantasy alien computer game upsets the Bishop. Why? Simply because its imaginary setting seems to have been in a CofE building and its imaginary viloence is a bit , well , violent. Not like real Christian history I suppose.
I suppose we should not expect any better. After all the CofE markets fantasies big time so a fantasy game to them is their bread and butter and probably gets close to their idea of reality.
Whereas reality elsewhere in the UK might include child abuse by unsavoury characters and abuse of ordinary law abiding people by drunken yobs. And the perpetrators in both instances are human , not computer simulations.
They might even on occasion - heaven forbid - be priests.
Judging by its different responses to fantasy computer games and the realities of life, the CofE doesn’t seem to care that much about the real world.
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June 15th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Once again, a shoot-em-up is being used as a scapegoat to the country’s social problem. One indistinguishable stupid church as a backdrop and - BAM! - players are murderers. I mean, what??
This controversy is stupid. Surely there are better things to do. I’ve played the game (and no, I haven’t killed anyone) and I hardly registered the church.
The supposedly ‘good-willed’ and ‘forgiving’ COE should take their own advice or stand as a hypocrite.
June 12th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Now when you think about it It looks nothign liek the church (you’ll know if you play the game a lot or have even had like a 5 min go.
Half the tower is missing, There are gaping holes in the roof, Theres Giant pieces of the church walls missing at the NE SE SW NW sides of the church,Weapon spawns and Air Vents.
If this is a photorealistic version of the church I’m mother Teresa.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
The Church IS NOT improving their image but have succeeded in completely destroying it. But I\’m sure Sony will have to change it anyway, which will destroy the Churches image even more.
And further more; The Church is portrayed as being a field hospitol that was taken over by the Chimera, Hale and the British are simply taking it back. I guess the Church of England is against Hospitals and saving humanity. How knew?
-Dan, Jesus Freak for Life!
June 11th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
All of you are speaking correctly…I don’t see a single problem here at all.
There is loads of games that involve churches and fighting…The bishop should just blame history because there was ‘wars’ where ‘people’ were ‘fighting’ ‘inside’ the churches and destroyed most of them or left them in a mess…
Resistance Fall Of Man is set in an alternate history and if you look closely…It’s a bloomin make shift war based hospital to treat the wounded soldiers…and in the game. The people fighting were trying to ’save’ the place…doesn’t he see that this game is god friendly otherwise the game would have let the place be destroyed.
June 11th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Da Stealth Preacha - why was there no complaints regarding the church in “Saving Private Ryan”, it was used as a hold up for the soldiers when the fought the passing Germans!
Not to mention plenty of other violent games like the Call of Duty series also featured churches!!!!
In Resistance the church is half destroyed and practically unrecognisable!! Imagine a real war/aliens situation, a church would be an ideal place to fight from, full of hope, like having god on your side, not to mention the fact that its a solid defense against intruders!
I hardly think Sony went out to offend the CofE, churches are tremedous examples of architechure and many graphic artists would have seen the beauty of creating this in a game!
This is just the CofE clambering for the front pages again, though this time its not them receiving the flack!
Wonder if Jack Thompson would be interested in this case??
June 10th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
The secret of it is “Fansasy” game hello bishop its not real, unless there are alien invaders in the cathedral in which case send in the sas and arm yourself!!
if the bishop was switched on he would try and get some royalitys from Sony for putting his cathedal on a game. He could repair his roof then.
There are worse things going on in the world so maybe we should think of them instead?
June 10th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Although you may not believe in God and yes the CofE like many churches are not perfect (historically nor at present). It is no reason why a place of worship shpould be potrayed in such a way.
It is well known that if thishad been a muslim place of wohip/holy site Sony would have been in real trouble, and they should thank God this is not the middle ages or they would have been burnt at the stake by the inquisition.
June 9th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
The bishop doesn’t seem to have a consistent argument. Is it a problem that it is his church or is it any church? would a school be ok? or is violence in computer games (and film?) just plain wrong? He was quoting some dubious US scientific study that claims that games cause violence. Some nerve given that he happily ignores almost all other scientific theory. The game is not set in Manchester cathedral as he claims. A distorted reconstruction of the cathedral features in the game along with many other locations.
I hope Sony counter-sue and put this hypocritical nutjob in his place. Or perhaps Sony should bring out a game that better depicts today’s activity in God’s houses. how about “Buggery: Fall of the Choir Boy”?
I’m all for proper investigation and debate on the issue of violence and computer games but the ill-thought-out ramblings of the bishop just add hot air to the hysteria already felt by countless parents and should not be given the media attention that they’ve received.
June 9th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Will no-one rid us of these troublesome priests?
Manchester Yardies will do the job for nuthin’