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Home Front: Culture Wars
"Left Behind" Game Offends Peaceful Muslims
2006-12-14
San Francisco Chronicle by Ilene Lelchuk
Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart, a major video game retailer, should yank it off its shelves.
A decisive war at the Apocalypse is central to Christian prophecy, and offending freedom to express belief in same is unconstitutional. As for Muslims, they are indoctrinated in dogma concerning an army marching under "black flags" that conquers the West.

The Campaign to Defend the Constitution and the Christian Alliance for Progress, two online political groups, plan to demand today that Wal-Mart dump Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a PC game inspired by a series of Christian novels that are hugely popular, especially with teens.

The series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is based on their interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and takes place after the Rapture, when Jesus has taken his people to heaven and left nonbelievers behind to face the Antichrist.
Posted by:Sneaze Shaiting3550

#14  Ned Flanders meets Grand Theft Auto

Totally! The Billy Graham Bible Blaster: "Aw, you only winged him, now he's a Unitarian."
Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-14 18:29  

#13  LOLOLOLOLO!


Posted by: Shipman   2006-12-14 17:25  

#12  My favorite game about religion is the old Chaosium game on the early Christian Church, Credo. I revently saw some people playing the old tasteless game, Christians and Lions. There's the new GMT card-driven wargame, Here I Stand, which is an update of the old SPI game A Mighty Fortress, both on the Reformation. AMF had the most famous table in all of wargames, the Theological Combat Results Table, including the popular result "Burned at the Stake".
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2006-12-14 16:50  

#11  (clearing throat in a lady-like manner, after tittering at the previous comment from DV)
Back to the topic at hand: since everything, everyone and his/her brother offends Muslims, my inclination is to say "ehhh... whatever." If Wally-World sells a ton of them, it's no skin off mine or that of any other collection of busy-body deity-botherers.
I'm a Lutheran, too, so I don't give a rodent's patoot about "Left Behind", either. But if it floats your boat, have at it and don't bother me and my copy of Luther's "Small Catechism".
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2006-12-14 16:00  

#10  
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-12-14 15:45  

#9  But(t) plugged and Muslim in the same thread.....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2006-12-14 15:10  

#8  But Plugged In, a publication of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family,...

"But Plugged In" sounds more like NAMBLA than anything to do with a conservative Christian group.
Posted by: SteveS   2006-12-14 14:33  

#7  But Plugged In, a publication of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, gave the game a "thumbs-up." The reviewer called it "the kind of game that Mom and Dad can actually play with Junior -- and use to raise some interesting questions along the way."

He...won't...convert...dad.
Then waste him, son! Waste him!
Ned Flanders meets Grand Theft Auto...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-12-14 12:00  

#6  "Left Behind" Game Offends Peaceful Muslims who immediately stop being peaceful.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-12-14 11:51  

#5  The Campaign to Defend the Constitution. Well Wal*Mart is not a government institution (yet) so these guys have proven they are anti-Christian rather than pro-Constitution.

It is nice when the assholes self-identify.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-12-14 10:39  

#4  Jeebus, I'm a (almost) card-carrying member of the "religious right", but I condemn the quotes by the 2 groups above. Personally, I wouldn't buy it, especially for my kids, but freedom is freedom and the Apocalypse is the Apocalypse.

IOW, let the market decide if this game's ridiculous. And, anytime the word "Progress" is used in a "Christian" group's name, it throws up a BIG red flag to me. Just my $.02.
Posted by: BA   2006-12-14 09:57  

#3  Campaign to Defend the Constitution

By prohibiting free exchange of ideas?
Posted by: Jackal   2006-12-14 07:49  

#2  When I'm feeling down, I cheer myself up thinking we may be living the beginning of the End Times (no, really, that's good news utlimately), and that everything's moving accordinl to Plan. This is mostly a "I Want To Believe" idea, but this helps, in its way. Of course, me being only superficially christian (except that Jesus thing), and a worse catholic, this wouldn't bode very well for my little person, but, whatever.

To get back at the FPS issue, I've been a loyal Doom player for long (never graduated to the 3, only the primitive but great first ones), and I really feel this game breeds prejudice against hellspawns and demons. This is nothing short of discrimination and hate-incitment. And I won't even mention Duke Nukem, and the way he treats wimmen... What is the Aclu doing, for Gramsci's sake?!
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-12-14 07:43  

#1  "Fight fire with fire"?
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-12-14 07:36  

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