Catholic, Christian, Atheist banned as player names from Diablo III

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As discovered by D’Toid, Blizzard has banned a bunch of words revolving around several religions being used in Diablo III. Some of them include Catholic, Atheist and Christian, the latter making it even harder if your first name actually is Christian. The words from religion that are allowed include Buddhism, Protestant and – wait for it – Scientology. Nothing else to add, your honour.

There’s more names banned through the link.

Source: VG247

lyk if u cried

What if they did that so that they could brainwash all the addicted nerds into a whole new religion.

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Allowed to use Protestant but not Catholic? Heh

What moron would want to put a religion in their username?

I'M A GOD WARRIOR

ironic that diablo means devil...

What's annoying is that all of this shit applies to single-player as well (I'm guessing since they have you by the balls with Diablo III single-player).

"Catholic" derives from late-latin "catholicus", which in turn is derived from the greek word "katholikos" meaning "Universal".of course, when people hear the word catholic they think of the roman catholic church.

Blizzard needs to grow some balls. If anyone truly is offended by the words "Catholic", "Christian", and "atheist", they need to suck it up. Look, I understand banning words that truly come with the intent of offending someone (although for single-player you should be allowed whatever you want), but this is as stupid as New York City legislature banning the words "birthday" and "dinosaur" from standardized tests because Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays and some fundies don't believe in dinosaurs.

Damn, I was hoping to name my character CatholicChristianAtheist.

Teckno wrote:

Damn, I was hoping to name my character CatholicChristianAtheist.

You replied to such an old thread...

On that note, stahp it, Mecha. There's no reason to use this thread instead of a new one.