Video: Australia proposes to ban the sale of the Bible
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Fans of the video game Grand Theft Auto are demanding that Australian retailers stop selling Bibles. So gamers reacted to the decision of the Target retail chain to remove a fifth of the popular action from the assortment due to the fact that the game shows violence against women. According to the defenders of GTA, the Holy Scripture "encourages readers to kill women for fun," and therefore should not be sold.
The Grand Theft Auto defenders began collecting signatures on December 4. The appeal has already found support from 20 thousand people. As an example of a text calling for the murder of women, the initiators of the action cite a quotation from the Old Testament: “If the daughter of a priest defiles herself with fornication, then she dishonors her father; fire must burn her up”(Leviticus 21: 9).
In turn, representatives of the company Target claim that they made the decision to end sales after customers began to massively complain about multiple episodes of violence in the game. The Target initiative has found support from another major network in Australia, Kmart.
Earlier, a spokesman for Take-Two, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto, said the company was disappointed with Target's actions. "The right to creative freedom extends to interactive entertainment as well as books, television, movies," the company said.
In Australia, GTA V is rated R18. This means that it is not sold to anyone under the age of 18. According to the terms of the game, gamers can completely freely explore the invented city, while breaking the law and attacking the townspeople.
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