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== Sports ==
* The Soviet Union formed the [[wikipedia:Spartakiad|Spartakiads]] from 1928 to 1937 as they initially branded the Olympics as "bourgeois". The event was put on the backburner when World War II broke out; after the war, they finally relented and sent a team at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. They still continued to hold Spartakiads within the Soviet Union up until 1991.
* In response to the rash of political drama spilling over to the Olympics, particularly the wave of tit-for-tat boycotts such as the United States-led boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as well as the retaliatory boycott by the Soviets in 1984 in the Los Angeles Olympiad, American broadcaster Ted Turner (of CNN and ''[[Captain Planet]]'' fame) organised the [[wikipedia:Goodwill Games|Goodwill Games]], a charitable sporting series made with the intent on providing a much less politicised alternative to an event which Turner felt has degenerated more into national or [[Cold War]] posturing than sport.
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Video Games ==
* The game developer Color Dreams
**It is widely believed that the reason Color Dreams turned into Wisdom Tree was not out of piety, but so that they could get around Nintendo's licensing–in fact, at least some of the developers were atheists or at least irreligious, and it is said that Color Dreams founder Dan Lawton simply came up with the shrewd strategy of selling to Christian audiences as a joke perhaps to troll both Nintendo and Christian groups. Nintendo's primary pressure tactic was refusing to sell their games to retailers that sold unlicensed games. Christian bookstores were immune to this, as they didn't stock video games in the first place. Seeing an opportunity, the newly-renamed Wisdom Tree convinced the bookstores that their games would bring kids to God, and started selling their games to them. Another theory is that Color Dreams changed their modus operandi after Nintendo sued them for selling unlicensed games—after all, what sort of evil company (and [[Japan Takes Over the World|a Japanese one]], [[Evil Foreigner|at that]]) would [[Even Evil Has Standards|hate on a Christian game developer anyway]]?
** One Wisdom Tree game, ''Super 3D Noah's Ark'' for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]], is particularly famous among hardcore gamers for being the only unlicensed SNES cartridge released in the US. The game was essentially ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'' [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|with the guns replaced with food and the Nazis replaced with goats]]. (Apparently, gathering ''different'' animals was too much trouble for Noah.) An urban legend claims that id Software actually gave Wisdom Tree the ''Wolfenstein 3D'' code and SNES lockout codes just to spite [[Nintendo]] after the SNES port of ''Wolfenstein 3D'' was [[Bowdlerise]]d. id Software [[Jossed|denies this]], claiming that Wisdom Tree was just another Id Tech 0 engine licensee.
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* Besides offering insurance to Catholics who often worked in dangerous jobs, the [[wikipedia:Knights of Columbus|Knights of Columbus]] was also established by American Catholic priest Michael J. McGivney as an alternative to the [[wikipedia:Freemasonry|Freemasonry]], whose secretive nature, tenets and adherence to deist beliefs led to animosity from numerous religious groups who either view the Masons with contempt or condemn them as an occult or even a satanic cabal. McGivney believed that Catholicism and fraternalism were compatible and wanted to found a society to encourage men to be proud of their American–Catholic heritage.
* The [https://soulcore.com/ SoulCore] exercise movement was founded by those who used to practice yoga, but are disillusioned by its perceived effects on their Christian (i.e. Catholic) faith, especially when Pope Francis [https://www.catholic.org/news/health/story.php?id=59107 cautioned the faithful] against the (perceived) spiritual dangers of yoga. Similar "Christian asana"/"Christian yoga" movements have sprung up as well, though they have also been criticised as a form of cultural appropriation by Hindu groups.
* Self-styled "Bitcoin millionaire" Erik Finman launched the FreedomPHONE in 2021 as a conservative response to smartphone platforms developed and operated by what is perceived by right-wing and/or conservative groups, particularly that of [[Donald Trump]] supporters, as censorious mainstream tech companies, especially when Trump became a social media pariah in the same year due to his role in the attempted insurrection in Washington D.C. In keeping with its appeal to the alt-right, Finman touts the device as "free speech and privacy" above anything else, and has the phone bundled with many alt-tech apps such as Newsmax, Parler, Rumble,
* The American mobile provider [https://patriotmobile.com/ Patriot Mobile] was founded in 2015 as a conservative Christian counter to perceived liberal bias by major telecom providers, to the point that they'd associate themselves with prominent right-wing groups and write up loads and loads of drivel about how liberals are (supposedly) ruining America, and to top it all off, their [[More Dakka|undying obsession with firearms]]. Never mind the fact that the devices they sell come from companies with decidedly progressive leanings; T-Mobile was criticised for leasing their capacity to such a questionable organisation, but they scoffed off said criticism as they're a utility company with no jurisdiction on who to serve regardless of ideology.
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