1. Hi-Rez pulls Hindu deities from some SMITE game marketing

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    Hi-Rez pulls Hindu deities from some SMITE game marketing

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    An Alpharetta online video game developer has removed Hindu deities from some of its marketing for a new game due out next year but said the deities will remain in the product when it goes on sale.

    The Hindu American Foundation called inclusion of the deities “disrespectful and offensive to Hindus worldwide.”


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    1. We have since removed the images of Hindu deities from our marketing web page.
      By Todd Harris
    2. As these games left lasting impact on the minds of highly impressionable children, teens and other young people, such inappropriate depictions would create more misunderstandings about Hinduism, which was already a highly misunderstood religion in the West.
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    3. SMITE is entertainment, not theology.
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