Despite all the controversy about the prequels, as one who is working on his 65th Star Wars novel, I can't help but be excited about more Star Wars at any time:)
Hopefully, they learned some good lessons from the prequels. Maybe...
I just want to point out that:
They bring up the 6th commandment in the article. While it is often quoted as "Thou shalt not kill," this contains a mistranslation (this is how it is translated in the King James Version). The Hebrew word translated as "kill" here is "ratsah" (Segal). This should in fact be translated "murder." Rendering this passage "Thou shalt not murder." or "Do not murder". This is corrected in many or most modern translations of the Bible.
Here is the definition of murder of dictionary.com: "the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)."
So it would seem, the "Thou shall not murder" command is not really applicable to this situation, as Master Chief is certainly not murdering in the legal sense or even in the moral sense. I do not understand "the debate" over whether using this tool to spread the gospel is a good thing or not. Bring people in. Share the love of Christ. Play Halo. I think its a great idea.
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Despite all the controversy about the prequels, as one who is working on his 65th Star Wars novel, I can't help but be excited about more Star Wars at any time :)
Hopefully, they learned some good lessons from the prequels. Maybe...
I just want to point out that:
They bring up the 6th commandment in the article. While it is often quoted as "Thou shalt not kill," this contains a mistranslation (this is how it is translated in the King James Version). The Hebrew word translated as "kill" here is "ratsah" (Segal). This should in fact be translated "murder." Rendering this passage "Thou shalt not murder." or "Do not murder". This is corrected in many or most modern translations of the Bible.
Here is the definition of murder of dictionary.com: "the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)."
So it would seem, the "Thou shall not murder" command is not really applicable to this situation, as Master Chief is certainly not murdering in the legal sense or even in the moral sense. I do not understand "the debate" over whether using this tool to spread the gospel is a good thing or not. Bring people in. Share the love of Christ. Play Halo. I think its a great idea.
My two cents.
Source: Segal, Eliezer. "Thou shall not murder." From the Sources. 19 October 2000. 9 October 2007. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/001102_ThouShaltNotMurder.html