Christian video game"Eternal Forces" involves mass killing of New Yorkers

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Talk To Action's Jonathan Hutson details, in his 5th installment of his running series on the videogame scandal that has already led to the resignation of a top aide to "A Purpose Driven Life" author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren. Now an infuriated Christian conservative attourney and activist, Jack Thompson, has moved aggressively to challenge the moral complicity of major Christian right leaders and organizations trying to ignore the stench of the game: Tyndale House, which licenses "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" also publishes a book, by Thompson, against videogame violence ! Is it any wonder Thompson is furious ?

"My words cannot fully describe what a betrayal this has been by Tyndale," Mr. Thompson wrote in a letter dated June 9, 2006, that he faxed to Mr. Dobson, "not just to me but to all of the Christian families out there who are trying to protect our kids from the corrosive, violent effects of violent media. A Christian organization has now become one of the mental molesters of minors for money." ( emphasis mine )


Now, many people get distracted by the issue of video games and violence. No, says Jonathan Hutson : that's not the important point here. The central issue is indoctrination:

( Hutson ) Comparisons to Grand Theft Auto and other such video game titles are irrelevant to this discussion. It is not the level of violence that is at issue, but the Christian supremacy. This game immerses children in an environment that copies present-day New York, and indoctrinates and rehearses children in the mass killing of New Yorkers. This is religious indoctrination that forms children's identities and teaches that they must be prepared to do a deadly deed to defend their creed. That message is unAmerican and unChristian; patriots and Christians alike should oppose this game.


"Left Behind: Eternal Forces" habituates those who play it to a violent religious supremacist ideology that demonizes an entire societal group, the "unfaithful", as targeted for destruction. That's the sort of demonization, of one or more societal groups, which in history has often preceded acts of mass political violence.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/12/85750/2410