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    Browser Game: Faith Fighter

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    Listen to or read The Weekly Geek for a while and you'll gradually come to realize that we often don't take religion seriously. Which is a good thing considering taking religion too seriously at best leads to intolerance and small minded douchebaggery and at worst leads to all out war and horrific torture. That's right folks, we're just doing our part here.

    Molle Industries is doing their part too. Their browser game Faith Fighter is a really fun 2D Flash fighter featuring all your favorite religious icons. God, Jesus, Buddha, Budai (the Chinese incarnation of Gautama Buddha, succeeding him in the cycle of reincarnation according to Chinese Buddhism), Ganesh, and Muhammed are all playable characters and each one has special attacks they can use during a fight along with punches and kicks.

    Molle created a censored and uncensored version of the game, which only features a black dot over the face of Muhammed. The tenets of Islam stated that no images of God or his prophet should be made, and while Judaism has a similar stipulation, some (note the use of some, not all) Muslims can get a little upset about someone that doesn't even subscribe to their belief system violating its law.

    As far as 2D flash fighters go this is a great one and would be well done even with a different set of characters and lacking the tongue-in-cheek cynicism we love at The Weekly Geek, but the addition of blasphemy is like the uncalled for (and thus hilarious) rudeness cherry on our offensive cake. And boy do we love cake.

    [Via Our blaspheming brother in arms, Warped Savant]

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