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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Christian Jihad: Video Game Edition

Posted by on May 31 at 13:00 PM

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Nutty right-wing Christian dominionists are marketing a series of first-person shooter games based on Tim LaHaye’s mega-selling “Left Behind” series. Your mission in Left Behind: Eternal Forces, set in post-apocalyptic New York City, is to hunt down and convert or kill all who resist the dominion of Christ in America: Muslims, Jews, Catholics, gays… you get the idea. (When you kill the infidels, your character yells, “Praise the Lord!”) If you accidentally blow away an innocent party, you lose “spirit points.” But you can get them back by saying a prayer, or by converting more godless Manhattanites.

According to the LA Times:

The game is set in New York City, where the Tribulation Force clashes with the Antichrist’s Global Community Peacekeepers in a tale that makes the United Nations a tool for Satan. Each side attempts to recruit lost souls in the battle for the city. “Eternal Forces” is a so-called real-time strategy game — players act as battlefield generals for their virtual armies, deciding where to place units and when to order attacks or retreats.

In the game, Tribulation squads unleash the usual arsenal against the Antichrist: guns, tanks, helicopters. But soldiers lose some of their spirituality every time they kill an opponent and must be bolstered through prayer. The failure to nurture good guys causes their spirit points to drop, leaving them vulnerable to recruitment by the other side.


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Wasn't this a video game on the Simpsons? The Flanders kids had it--"Oh, you winged him. Now he's a Unitarian!"

on andrew sullivan's blog, he was saying that you can also lose so many spirit points that you become evil. then you get to kill christians. which sounds okay to me.

if i could get the game with giving money to the scary lahayes guy, i would totally play it!

I posted this in my own blog, but there is a good article here.

When did they move Tower Bridge to New York?

"a so-called real-time strategy game"

Eh?

Real-time strategy games give you control over an army, and most often resources. You can build various types of units as needed, depending on the resources you've collected. You can build bases and cities in strategic locations, and send your combat units against the enemy's combat units. Games in this genre include StarCraft, the Command and Conquer series, and the Age of Empires/Mythology/etc series.

They better not come after me and my boy Carl Johnson. CJ will knock their self-righteous asses right back to the Fall.

Kill for Christ!

This is a wake-up call to all the sensible Christians out there: You are targets. The people you have to fear aren't those who don't worship your god, but by your "fellow believers" who are working harder than ever to be the One Voice of Christianity. And that Voice says KILL!

It's been several centuries since there was a large-scale war between Christians. So long ago that nearly every Christian has conveniently forgotten that nearly all of the murders of Christians have come at the hands of... fellow Christians.

I think I'd be happier if I was able to shoot the Christians. There's no shame in killing in the name of religion, for or against-as the Crusaders and missionaires to North America might tell you.

I hope this is a hoax, but unfortunately with today's Krazy Kristians one can't be sure. I can affirm that I once saw a Christian bumper sticker a few years ago reading, "PRAY...or become PREY!"

I can't WAIT to play this. I so hope there's an Xbox version.

Reports about the game have been very inaccurate. The game does not have the player try to establish a theocracy or kill people who don't convert. In fact, you are penalized for killing people, even though Christian forces are fighting against the anti-Christ's army.

See more about the nature of the game, with quotes from secular reviewers who have actually played it:

http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2006/06/truth-about-left-behind-video-game.html



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