G4's The Feed blog is reporting that Will Wright was originally concerned with religious groups when he built Spore, but that the real criticism has come from the atheists! "I think our bigger fear was that we didn't want to offend any religious people; but looking at the discussion that unfolded from this thing, what we had was a good, sizeable group of players that we might call militant atheists, and the rest of the players seemed very tolerant, including all of the religious players." It seems that the atheists take issue with religion being associated with the "higher civilization portion" of the game. Why does anyone find it necessary to read anything into these games? It's a figment of someone's imagination and should be played and appreciated for the hard work and creative efforts that are involved... and why can't we all just get along?
