Is a talking Buddha statue allowed in the TOS?

Good evening ladies and germs

I’ve created an interactable Buddha statue which provides you with wise quotes from Gautama Buddha. Note that I did not create the mesh itself, I found it in free models, I created the interaction framework and scraped a list of quotes I found on the web.

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Personally I like what I’ve made here but I had a friend express concern to me that this may break Roblox’s TOS, which is what prompted me to create this post. Personally I cannot find anything in the TOS which may not allow this, although I’d love to hear other peoples thoughts on this subject matter.

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As long as it’s not mocking the religion or anything, I think it’s fine then!

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This was my original thought while creating this. I do not subscribe to a religion but I find Buddhism fascinating and have the upmost respect for the religion itself and its practitioners - I would never intentionally mock it.

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If you check the Community Rules:

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I’m not Roblox staff so I cannot say this authoritatively, but nothing in that video shows any discrimination, prejudice, or hate speech to me.

(This is also the only reference to religion in the rules. I can’t see how it could possibly be offensive or risk moderation at all.

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I saw this as well and I share your view here. Granted there will be no religion-aspect to the game itself - which will be a gym simulator - I feel like I’m in the green for now. Thanks for the reply!

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Im not enterirely sure if it is, but if you are scared, then try to change the name of the statue or whatever you can do to make stuff different.

As long as your not disrespecting the religion in anyway it should be fine. If it’s a concept in your game I think it would be a really cool aspect! Cool creation!

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If you can include the cross in ROBLOX I’m sure this will be fine.

Sorry for bringing other games into this although there are many games that include religion such as Church, Islam Religion, and even St. Peter Russian Orthodox Church

So essentially yes I believe this will be fine as long as you do not talk badly about another religion or attempt to get people to be a part of this religion.

I wouldn’t as it would be controversial to the whole game.