BoardGameGeek has fired advertising manager Chad Krizan after almost 20 years with the company, after he cited his personal experiences of demonic possession as grounds for rejecting an ad campaign.
Krizan told Possess Me, Satan publisher Falling Whale Games that he couldn’t “in good conscience” approve ads for its Gamefound campaign as “the thought of displaying this subject matter makes me sick to my stomach”, according to an email exchange shared online by the publisher.
In the emails, Krizan says he has been “sitting on this one and praying about what to do in this instance”, adding that “as a follower of Jesus, I routinely help people suffering from demonic oppression, and more occasionally, possession, and it’s absolutely devastating the damage he does to peoples’ lives”.
Hats off to BGG for not entertaining this nonsense, and letting that person go.
This glosses over how long the issue went on before they fired him. It also doesn’t address how many other companies may have been hurt by his nonsense views that couldn’t fight back as effectively as Falling Whale could due to size and audience.
BGG still had a lot to answer for.
Hopefully any other previously denied campaigns will now come to light.
Keep in mind their original response was basically a" he’s been cautioned that this is not professional" but nothing more. It was only after there was even more outcry that they went back on that.
Where did you see that first reply?
Does that dumbass just pray instead of helping people with mental challenges get actual help?
First time seeing how religion “works”?
Theres no way someone like this works at a company for 20 years and this has never come up before.
Im gonna guess this was the first time it came up publicly so they had to fire him tho.
Lol these are hardly offensive images. https://gametrodon.com/possess-me-satan-banner-ads/
That’s what a demon would say
That’s it? This is run-of-the-mill game art. I was expecting more blood or gore.
This is a great way to raise publicity about this game.
I’m always entertained by deeply religious people being the only ones affected by demonic possessions.
I’ve been trying for years .
He was very honest in an email, because it was likely the creators of that game were unprofessional to him. I’ve read the email, and believe he did the right thing in standing up for himself.
What BGG did was, in fact, unlawful because this was religious discrimination, period. BGG will be seeing a lot of trouble for this action.
That is not how religious discrimination protection works, even in the US.
You’re free to practice your religion, you’re not free to let your religion interfere with your duties.
Religion never really interferes with one’s duties. If a company is full of religious fundamentalists, and you go against the grain with your perspective, shouldn’t people be able to take it and test it?
Religion never really interferes with one’s duties.
That is utter, utter toss.
There are many many examples of this exact thing happening, from both sides.
i don’t know… just off of the top of my head:
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The literal dozens of recent-times incidences of pastors, priest and religious leaders being sued and jailed for (personally, not a part of their order) refusing to marry people. successes on both sides, but more importantly to the point interference with duties
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Conscientious objection interfering with military duties, (again no judgement here, just pointing out the interference)
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A large proportion of nations with a dominant religion used to all but shut down for things like the sabbath and many still do for that and other religious observances.
If you genuinely don’t think religion causes interference in life (for good or ill), everything else you say is suspect.
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This whole case is about a person’s religious beliefs interfering with their duties?
I don’t understand your example, who tests what and why?
