Faith-Based Killing? Critics Rip Christian Video Game

[RamboLiberal]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=2748351&page=1

The antichrist has come to Earth, and the forces of good are battling the forces of evil. Your mission: to convert or kill the non-believers.

That's the premise of the new personal computer videogame "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" — a game caught in a harsh theological and political controversy.

Watch Jake Tapper's report on the video game controversy Sunday on "World News."

Liberal Christian leaders such as the Rev. Tim Simpson, a Presbyterian minister and the interim president of the Christian Alliance for Progress (LINK), are demanding the game be pulled from store shelves.

"It's essentially faith-based killing," Simpson says, arguing that the game twists the Gospel. "The religious right envisions sitting down by the fireside — Mom and Dad, Johnny and Susie — killing all their non-Christian opponents inside the game and imagining this is what, in fact, God wants."

[Taverner]

1. Damn I hate fundies

And yes, that's hate

Anti-European, Anti-Arab and Anti-human - Tim La Haye needs to go down.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Killing in the name of God? It would never happen.

:sarcasm:

[ixion]

3. say what you want about Grand Theft Auto

at least they don't try to hide behind faith to justify their violence. I think that makes it worse, because it has an agenda. GTA has no agenda. That said, however, it's a pretty typical gaming scenario. :-)

[RamboLiberal]

4. But there's no blood or gore in this Left Behind Game

:sarcasm: From OP linked article: True to LaHaye's books and this theology, the "Left Behind" game can be violent; it is rated "T" for Teen — recommended for those age 13 and older — though the game makers point out no blood or gore appears after characters are killed.

As Clive Thompson noted in Wired, "the ultimate, and gorgeous, irony of this game," seems to be that fans of the Left Behind franchise "are apparently more worried about simulated violence in video games than about believing an actual prophecy of the future — endorsed by their spiritual leaders — in which their friendly Jewish, Islamic and atheist neighbors have their tongues dissolved in screaming agony by a fire-eyed Jesus."

[Skittles]

6. I agree with you ixion

the hypocrisy does make it worse

[sam sarrha]

5. what i saw looked like you got points for killing 'Siners'

[northofdenali]

7. Nah. Never happen. Never, I tell you, never!!!

Rev. Tim sounds sane. One of my best friends mom is a Methodist minister, and she's absolutely dynamite (both friend and mom).

[Vidar]

8. We've moved past Magna Carta days to the age of Charlemagne.

Forward into the pst! (apologies to Firesign),