At E3 this year, to promote Dante's Inferno, EA paid some people to stand outside and protest the release of the game. This had the effect of making a few Christian websites angry. One "Christian gamer blog" even called Dante's Inferno a "God of War clone", which amused me.
[url=]http://kotaku.com/5289471/eas-fake-protest-riles-some-religious[/url] (I'll figue out how to hypertext again properly someday...)
You know what? Being a Christian means I'm part of a group that can never take jokes well, and that saddens/angers me.

What? C'mon, thank about that for a second. EA pays a group to imitate protesting Christians and draw negative media attention to the whole thing.
Now it's Christians that get a bad rap? Of course you're going to have angry Christians because they've been used as the butt of a joke to get EA press.

The URL goes inside the first URL tag. The text you want shown goes between the tags. Like this: Kotaku's coverage here.

Yes but surely it would be much smarter to not react, as by reacting you then create more press for EA and end up looking a little foolish.

A vocal minority overaction, it's just more promotion for EA. Have blog will rant.
Considering the total assumed number of people in the christian faith, if it did really get to them, we would hear more than some news on kotaku.

There's a post around here somewhere about the fake protest. At first glance, i didn't realized it was a marketing move because it really wasn't that much of a strectch to believe that some religious group, Christian or otherwise, would waste their time protesting against a game.
I'm not religious, so in principle i don't have the slightest problem with tasteful pokes at religious groups or religion itself, but this marketing move while original it's anything but tasteful. We're talking about EA, so small wonder really.
And Owen Good should perhaps consider a career change.
"Excuse my "freethinking" but we're talking about a game that's already made. So your admonishment to pour the effort spent hating Christians back into making the game is moot. "
Really ? Is that the best he can come up with with his 'free thinking'? Talk about nitpicking as an alternative to arguments. Oh, and tell that one about the 'moot point' to everybody who bought L$D. The game is 'made' alright, but the devs should consider pouring some effort into finishing it anyway.

I can understand and sympathize their position, not all Christians are flaming douchebags, just usually the ones who buy the cheap seats at the country-western concerts.

If we can make fun of hare krishnas, then we can make fun of Christians too. It works both ways. And to anyone who thinks they can make me stop making fun of hare krishnas, you can do it when you pry the tambourine from my cold, dead hand.

Haha, um, well oddly enough I mostly like what the Christians are saying here..basically "we're not all douchebags" and "your game sucks, EA'.
Honestly I bet if Christians made the game it'd be a lot better haha.

I'm inclined to agree.

Some bloggers are upset and ranting? Oh shit! Stop the presses!!
Neither EA's publicity stunt or the practically non-existent response to it are even worth taking note of.

EDIT: Not worth the effort to respond to bias

The general public know most Christians aren't as extreme as these fake protesters, and because of this a lot of Christians won't be too troubled by its long-term effects (especially now that Kotaku and the like have revealed EA's deception). Having said that, this is still a very, very low move on EA's part.

EA being low is hardly something anyone should be surprised about. And giving them any kind of publicity on this is really only just rewarding their bad behavior.