And He said unto them: "Rename The Bible Online"

@Poeg

What if you have it wrong? What if the ancient Greeks were right and Zeus is up on Mt. Olympus pissed off at you for worshiping a false Christian god?

@smg77 Umm..Didn't you hear? Kratos beat the snot out of him.

@Poeg

How many of those other books have caused so much hatred and strife? How many have been used as the justification to deny people their basic rights?

...Right. As cool as it is to bash the bible and complain about how much strife organized religion has caused over the years, I hardly think that this is the place to debate such a thing.

Blood on the hands of those that have used Religion as a conduit for violence, but it hardly seems fair to attack someone's spiritual beliefs for a few cheap laughs.

-Birk

@Birk

It's hard not to laugh at these developers, though. They made a game called "The Bible Online" and expected it to be successful?

@DrewIW Tell it like it is, brother!

@DrewIW : um, the Koran? By a factor of ten or so? And what exactly do you mean by "human rights"? You mean the ones that originated with "thou shalt not kill", which were codified into the US Constitution only a little over two centuries ago? Every protection enjoyed by Westerners stems directly from the Christian values my country was founded on, a fact that anti-Christian bigots work tirelessly to erase from the history books. There have been a fair number of atrocities committed in the name of faith, but they pale next to the ones committed by atheists. And in almost every case of so-called "religious" violence, you will find the true motivations were to gain land, power or wealth - usually all three. Almost any philosophy can be perverted to produce enslavement and a disregard for human life - just look at modern liberalism, for example.

@psycros
"Every protection enjoyed by Westerners stems directly from the Christian values my country was founded on, a fact that anti-Christian bigots work tirelessly to erase from the history books"
Dude, really? You really think we needed to wait till the 17th centrury before an athiest knew "Killing = bad"? C'mon, seriously?
Do you realise how retarded that sounds?

"There have been a fair number of atrocities committed in the name of faith, but they pale next to the ones committed by atheists."
Ummm... no. Try again. athiests per se are not a "group". We simply "dont believe". Its a non stance. We only exist because you "thiests" target us historically, and since secular authourity is on the rise and seperating itself from religion now we can simply reply to you and say "No, now go away", and then you cry we are "anti-christian bigots". Thats rich lol. But if there was no religion athiests would simply be people, there would not be anything to give the word meaning. We're all, you and me just people, and there is no fairy god father, just us. Sooner you realise the better we can all get on and gocus on what we have in common, our humanity.

"And in almost every case of so-called "religious" violence, you will find the true motivations were to gain land, power or wealth - usually all three"
Yes, religion is particulary insidious however, because even after greed has been satisfied religion must constantly need bolstering with mind slavery and brainwashing. it doesn't stop with the war or other atrocity. religion is actually a very weak idea, which is why it needs threat and bribery to survive and brainwashing via repetition to survive. Its only possible because we are descended from apes and have pattern matching brains that dont always recognise false positives. But we're getting there :)

@Tizmah

The Bible Online is pretty high concept. On the other hand, the Bible software "Online Bible" has been around since software was carved into clay tablets, so I can see their point about search engines.

How about....

"Crucified: The Seventh Plague"
"In Search of Gomorrah"
"Assault on Canaan"
"Dungeons of the Nephilim"

@smg77

Try that with Francis Collins, Georges Lemaître and Sir John Polkinghorne. I'm sure you're much more intelligent than a physician-geneticist, astronomer and theoretical physicist because you're not religious.

@Jesspiper

What's your point? I could show you any number of intelligent people of any or no religion. All you prove by your comment is that you're incapable of logically defending yourself and your faith; rather, as in your other comment, you just say names and figures without any real justification.

@Nether Ironically, the US is just about the only developed nation that wouldn't mostly laugh it out to sea.