timefighter opened this issue on Feb 17, 2004 ยท 182 posts
mateo_sancarlos posted Wed, 18 February 2004 at 3:01 PM
This is the same kind of controversy that Mel Gibson is facing. He handles it by sticking to his beliefs as a strict Catholic. I'm interested to see how Renderosity handles it. One way would be to allow scenes of Jesus being whipped, tortured, punished, speared, crucified and killed by the Romans. That's historically accurate AFAIK. It will serve to re-inforce the rule that this is a PG-13 site run by Christians, and it reiterates the unwritten guideline that Renderosity allows things that are not offensive to a Christian raised in the U.S. I can live with that. Another way they could handle it is to disallow scenes like the Crucifixion. This would offend too many of their subscribers, so I don't think they can do that. Disallowing iconography from all religions would be fair, but it would offend even more people, so I don't think they can do that. They will just have to handle it on a case-by-case basis. If there is backlash, such as people posting anti-semitic or anti-Christian images, or people posting images supporting radical Islamists or other terrorists who kill Christians, then they know how to deal with that.