‘Faith Fighter’ Game Offends All Religions Equally

What better way to bring different religions together than to gang up on some stupid internet flash game that offends all of them?

The game in question is called Faith Fighter, a 2-D Flash based fighting game from developer Molleindustria, that has many religions up in arms for different reasons. It features six playable fighters, each with their own special moves. You can choose from God, Jesus, Buddha, Ganesha, Budai annnnnd Mohammed.

Uh oh.

Mohammed fights God. Shield thine eyes.

Yes, Mohammed is a playable character, and as you may well know, it’s a mortal sin in Islam to ever depict the prophet in image form (you may recall something about political cartoons and death threats from a few years ago).

The funny thing is, the developers realized this, so they made a “censored” version of the game that blurs out Mohammed’s face. You know, for all the throngs of Muslims who are clammoring to play a faith-based fighting game, but don’t want it to stain their immortal souls.

All the other religious groups are up in arms about the concept of gods fighting each other in the first place. Just ask Doug Miller, a pastor in Birmingham, England:

“This game is going out of its way to upset people and I think it should be taken off the internet.

Playing violent video games will ultimately affect your behavior and this game is deeply offensive and provocative.”

I love how he says that playing this bloodless 2-D flash game will “ultimately effect your behavior,” but even better is that he thinks there’s some regulatory body that can “take things off the internet.”

One point he does have though is that the game IS going out of it’s way deliberately to upset people. There’s a disclaimer at the beginning that says something along the lines of “this game isn’t meant to offend anyone, it’s a commentary about religious war,” but come one, you did it for attention, be honest.

So as a Christian myself, was I too offended to play? No, it’s just some stupid game, and I just finished kicking a bunch of spiritual ass with Jesus and his holy cross spin punch. It was actually rather entertaining for a solid three minutes and it also allowed me to discover the game’s most excellent final boss: Xenu.

But now I’ll publish this article and never think about this game again because it’s not a big deal. If you don’t like it, don’t play it, even though the most sacrilegious thing it’s teaching is “religions sometimes fight with each other.” If you ignore stuff like this, it goes away, no need to petition the Supreme Internet Council to get it removed from the web.

Go here to play (or be enraged) for yourself.