Ubisoft is being sued by a church bishop. No, it's not over inaccuracies within Assassin's Creed regarding what costumes crusaders wore. It is in fact about terminating Bishop Daniel Chabot's contract to run training sessions for the company in Montreal.
Ubisoft discovered that Msr Chabot was a bishop in the Raelian Movement/Church after he'd run two days of a three day 'pilot' program training staffers in "emotional intelligence and communication".
The movement is based on the following according to is website:
"On the 13th of December 1973, French journalist Rael was contacted by a visitor from another planet, and asked to establish an Embassy to welcome these people back to Earth."
The visitor even gave Rael a message: "The messages dictated to Rael explain that life on Earth is not the result of random evolution, nor the work of a supernatural 'God'."
While this sounds about as feasible to us as any other religion, it didn't go down well with Ubisoft executives. According to one report - well, release from the Canadian branch of the Raelians... "However, on ctober 13, 2003, Ubisoft's management discovered Mr Chabot's religion. In an impulse of discrimination it decided to put an end to the project. Audio recordings that Mr. Chabot submitted to Court prove without any doubt that Ubisoft has indeed practiced discrimination based on religion."
We have contacted Ubisoft for comment on this interesting case... maybe there's a game in it?
Ubisoft discovered that Msr Chabot was a bishop in the Raelian Movement/Church after he'd run two days of a three day 'pilot' program training staffers in "emotional intelligence and communication".
The movement is based on the following according to is website:
"On the 13th of December 1973, French journalist Rael was contacted by a visitor from another planet, and asked to establish an Embassy to welcome these people back to Earth."
The visitor even gave Rael a message: "The messages dictated to Rael explain that life on Earth is not the result of random evolution, nor the work of a supernatural 'God'."
While this sounds about as feasible to us as any other religion, it didn't go down well with Ubisoft executives. According to one report - well, release from the Canadian branch of the Raelians... "However, on ctober 13, 2003, Ubisoft's management discovered Mr Chabot's religion. In an impulse of discrimination it decided to put an end to the project. Audio recordings that Mr. Chabot submitted to Court prove without any doubt that Ubisoft has indeed practiced discrimination based on religion."
We have contacted Ubisoft for comment on this interesting case... maybe there's a game in it?
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