The following is not allowed in Steam games:
I wanted to include the following passage in my game:
It seems to involve violence based on ethnicity though I don't think those ethnicities still exist. I hope it doesn't count as hate speech. What do Christians think?
It would depend on the agenda being sought I suppose. There are a lot of books that can be discredited by taking one sentence out and judging it by excluding the rest of the book.
If you consider all of the Bible's teaching, you will find that its author spoke in Parables, by His own admission. That the Book is Spiritual, and that the battles that are talked about, are not against flesh and blood, but against wicked thoughts, and imaginations of the heart. That they are "Examples" and the things that happen to them, were written for our admonition.
The end resulting in a man who loves others, and fights against being a "respecter of persons" or judging folks by class, color or mental condition.
The battle you speak of, is against wicked thoughts in the mind. We are not to tolerate them, live with them, co-exist with them, we are to destroy them, every last part of them. "man, woman, child, cattle, dog, etc.".
It would be the same mindset you might have regarding "hate Speech".
"Hate speech, i.e. speech that promotes hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation".
You might come into a land with a group of people who, for instance, hate Israel or Jews, and want to wipe them off the planet, "from the river to the sea". Would you let this thought come into your mind, and stay there? I would hope no, and these thoughts would be fought against and destroyed from within your heart. Every last part of them.
This would represent the teaching of the Bible, in my learned view.
