Posted on 11/11/2005 7:52:13 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
From the game:
"With the might of Rome behind it, Christianity spread rapidly thoughout the known world."
Notice the word "might" negates any idea that people converted to Christianity from any inner spiritual ideals. The fact is, the Roman Empire tried to crush Christianity with all its might, and only through spiritual faith did Romans become Christians. Also:
"When the Roman Empire fell, Christianity broke into two branches. Since then it has continued to fragment, with a number of branches quite hostile to others."
I would like to know who it is that is "quite hostile to others". The only place I can think of that could be described as such would be small area of the British controlled north Ireland. Considering all the many people of Christian faith living around the world in peace, this chosen view can be nothing but a twisted lie and Anti-Christian.
Now compare that negativity to how the game describes the documented cold blooded killer Muhammad:
"He and his followers were reviled and attacked by those who did not believe, but they were following the path that God had set for them and emerged triumphant, eventually unifying all Arabia under one rule."
Not a word about how Muhammad is documented to have been a highway robber, hostage taker for ransom, attacked towns and cities and murdered people in cold blood.
Furthermore the technology advance "scientific Method" makes religion obsolete, although I have never seen science disprove God or the human Soul.
And there is a technology advancement called "Liberalism" theat grants the first to discover it a free technology and enables "free speech" and "free religion" when the fact is that the people who have brought us free speech were Christians not Liberals and there is no "Conservatism" technology to be discovered.
And finally one other thing I have noticed is that for the "Internet", they actually have Al Gore with the American flag and after seeing their attitudes I already described you know they're not joking.
By the way, the game is simply more of the same boring stuff as before. Luckily they sent us a free copy because my wife reviews games. They claim it's 3-D, but there are only 3 set angles that you can rotate the view to, which makes Sid Meier not only Anti-Christian, but a liar, a cheat and a fraud.
Somehow I rather doubt I will be consulting you on... anything.
Thank you anyway.
Did you skip reading comprehension??
You are compeltely correct as to the whole point of the thread.
It has been a number of years since this thread was started a friend brought to my attention that at some point during those years the anti-christian text I had the main issue with has been completely done away with.
Namely you won't find this text in the game:
“With the might of Rome behind it, Christianity spread rapidly thoughout the known world.”
Nor will you find this text:
“When the Roman Empire fell, Christianity broke into two branches. Since then it has continued to fragment, with a number of branches quite hostile to others.”
In its place you will find a completely respectful text, which I do not recall exactly what it says, but is definitely acceptable and comparable to the other religions in the *GAME*.
So the ultimate conclusion of this thread must be that I was completely correct in my original stance.
I guess that fact will bother some of you but I do hope those can cope.
Thank you, goodbye, good gaming!
I purchased Civ4--The Complete Edition and find nothing objectionable in it. Though I do try to make Christianity my religion and spread it as far as possible in every game I play, while trying like the dickens to restrict Islam.
Sorry. The layout of this board is counter-intuitive.
It seems I have inadvertently resurrected this thread, so I might as well stick with it.
“So the ultimate conclusion of this thread must be that I was completely correct in my original stance.”
Sorry, the fact that they have ‘fixed’ the game doesn’t make you any less wrong. Everything I posted (mistakenly directed at Reader_David) still applies. My point wasn’t that you were wrong about the game contents (except the scientific method thing, which never changed), it was that your arguments were bad.
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