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"Left Behind" Game Offends Peaceful Muslims

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Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-14 07:06|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Fight fire with fire"?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-14 07:36|| 2006-12-14 07:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-12-14 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Campaign to Defend the Constitution

By prohibiting free exchange of ideas?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-12-14 07:49|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-12-14 07:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-12-14 09:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-12-14 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 "Left Behind" Game Offends Peaceful Muslims who immediately stop being peaceful.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-14 11:51|| 2006-12-14 11:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-12-14 12:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-12-14 14:33|| Front Page Top

#9 But(t) plugged and Muslim in the same thread.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2006-12-14 15:10|| 2006-12-14 15:10|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-12-14 15:45|| 2006-12-14 15:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2006-12-14 16:00|| Front Page Top

#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">Eric Jablow 2006-12-14 16:50|| 2006-12-14 16:50|| Front Page Top

#13 LOLOLOLOLO!

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-14 17:25|| 2006-12-14 17:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-12-14 18:29|| Front Page Top

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