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  Final Blade | February 12, 2008
  This is a interesting point, i also made the reference awhile ago how Movies are more violent and graphic then video games. But i guess its the whole "your controlling the character" thing. So in a sense its different and going to rated or graded differently.
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  Existenz | February 12, 2008
  Gaming > Bible, Its fact only pathetic people these days are going to sit around reading a book written by some great storytellers of like 2 million years ago, though seriously for a moment all religions not just christianity have very violent holy books, much worse than any game could portray... But alas the religious are apparently greater beings than us gaming folk, and are allowed to preach their unfounded bullshit for the sake of censorship.
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    iLLmatic | February 12, 2008
    Can you disprove anything from the Bible or any other religious book? Can you use facts to disprove anything from any holy book? Is it really so pathetic to have a belief or faith in something, just because you don't believe in it, or is that just how you go about labeling people?
    
    

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    But alas the religious are apparently greater beings than us gaming folk

    So what about the ones who play videogames?
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      Existenz | February 12, 2008
      The ones that play videogames usually don't think of themselves as better than anyone else. And seriously anyone that thinks heaven exists and that there is a god is bordering on delusional, its just a book like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, only difference is somewhere in time some geeks created some kind of godly status for it... And so it began, the "Bible" is something people believe in, without actually asking themselves why, its pathetic.
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        Existenz | February 12, 2008
        I guess speaking my mind gets some bad attention... Oh how i pity some people.
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        Final Blade | February 12, 2008
        I disgree, its ok if you think there isn't a heaven or god, but others like myself do.
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        iLLmatic | February 12, 2008
        You just compared the Bible to Harry Potter and you're saying other people are delusional? Regardless, you're generalizing. Only the ones who play games don't think they are better than others?..Be serious with yourself. I question things everyday, because that is what a great mind does. You don't accept something just because it is written. However, it doesn't make it automatically false either. You believe one thing, I believe another, but I would not degrade you by calling your beliefs pathetic. But, that is the beauty of being able to represent yourself amongst others.
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  Seeker X | February 12, 2008
  Uh...hello? Living beings almost extinct by flood? And supposedly Humanity is doomed by some anti-Christ later on, with nice little graphical descriptions in "Revelations". I'm surprised this is a topic that just surfaced, the bible has been criticized for it's violent and unethical content for YEARS, even before gaming came along.
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  Guticb | February 12, 2008
  It's kinda common sense.
  
  Old dude creates man, gets mad that man doesn't believe in him, throws a hissy fit, kills millions of innocent people by drowning them.
  
  That's basically the story of Noah's Ark, and it's more violent than almost every game in existence.
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  Murray3 | February 12, 2008
  gaming is also either just as or more realistic than the bible most cases (prepares for negative thumbs from christianity enthusiasts).
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  Play ISDF | February 12, 2008
  I'm with Bruce on this. The playing field must be leveled instead of having gaming on a pedestal (or in a pit in this case) when being compared to other things. There are MUCH more graphic things and MUCH more violent things that aren't freaking games.
  
  Movies for instance since they are filmed with real people and the special and visual effects make things look very realistic (well mostly). Games have had some pretty damn good looking graphics, but it doesn't compare to real people looking like they are really getting stabbed 30 times then having their guts ripped out and having some vultures come down and eating their eyeballs.
  
  Don't get me wrong though, I know games have had their fair share of graphic and violent stuff of course, but lets say a little kid watches the scene I described above with say the 360's graphics compared to that shot with real people, what's gonna stick with him more? The 360's version or the real life version?
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  BANDITO ATTACK | February 12, 2008
  sometimes i can just sit back and LOL my head off at how far they take this shit
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  SvR2008 | February 12, 2008

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  sometimes i can just sit back and LOL my head off at how far they take this ***

  Same. There are some stupid people in the world
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  Linkin Park Fan | February 12, 2008
  Ah, if people weren't such ingorent pricks, we wouldn't be making these kinds of comparisons and argueing over these things. But I do agree, that sometimes debating about these kind of things is fun sometimes.