I'm slightly conflicted about this. On the one hand, religions don't get to insist that others have to respect or follow their beliefs. I wanna draw a cartoon of Mohammed, too bad. I wanna call a Communion wafer "just a cracker", too bad. I wanna make a video game about a figure from the Hindu pantheon, too bad.
On the other hand, there's no need to be deliberately rude about things. What if they'd done a game based on, I dunno, Gilgamesh or something? Plenty of old religions or cults that don't have any modern adherents to offend.
The Hindu activists are well within their rights to boycott Sony stuff... but I don't have to abide by it. I guess that's where I'll have to leave it.
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