religion : FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN VIDEO GAME ALLOWS PLAYERS TO KILL NON-BELIEVERS [+] serious ballot by cranky ACTIVE Sat Dec 02, 06 - Thu Aug 27, 09 Jesus Loves A Machine Gun It's the new "Left Behind" video game, where you maim and murder and hate, all in God's name. Praise! - By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Are you a true believer? Do you just know deep down in your black Wal-Mart socks that every word of the Bible is the absolute literal truth and nothing dare be doubted and anyone who thinks that God is merely an ambisexual omniblissful bloom of moist divine nondenominational honeydew melon should be strung up by their small intestine and beaten with sticks sharpened by Mel Gibson's teeth? Do you feel, furthermore, that human cretins like, say, gays and Jews and Wiccans and all those hippie weirdos with their iPods and low-cut jeans and easy laughter are a plague upon this fine and holy land? Do you think that contemptible books like "The Da Vinci Code" are not only blasphemy, but that you should probably go out into the street right now and behead a few lambs and perhaps mow down some Taoists with a Gatling gun just to deflect its horrible notions of the sacredness of the feminine divine? You do? Praise Jesus! Your video game has arrived. Behold, blessed children, the new and upcoming "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" video game, based on the freakishly best-selling series of apocalyptic trash-lit books. It's an ultraviolent, hilariously inept, wondrously accurate portrayal of what every true right-wing Christian fundamentalist really fantasizes about after they've had one too many pink wine spritzers and have logged a few hours in the gay chat rooms and have sufficiently indoctrinated their happily numb kids with tales of vile homos and scary "progressive" liberals who want to buy them candy and tattoo their sacrums and feed them organic hot dogs. What's the game actually about? How do you play? I believe the pro-choice, pro-religion Talk to Action blog describes it best: Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission -- both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state -- especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. Ah yes, the neo-Christian ideal. The ultimate dominionist police state, a smoking, reeking, post-apocalyptic vision of New York, a world teeming with nonbelievers just waiting to be either converted or massacred by nothing less than a Christianized American Taliban, a world of righteousness and judgment and death, all in the name of one very nasty and bloodthirsty God. It's "Grand Theft Auto" for the Rick Santorum set. It's "Resident Evil 4" for American Family Association types who eat too much BGH meat and never have sex. (SFGate) * * * * * * * * The gameplay in "Left Behind" allows you to kill anyone you can't convert, which pretty much means anyone who isn't a fundamentalis, Evangelical Christian. Does this fundamentalist Christian view of infidels remind you of what conservatives and neocons claim is the fundamentalist Muslim attitude toward infidels? Yes, seems like a mirror image No, because Evangelical Christians are right Yes, but still the game's f*ckin hilarious. That game doesn't sound very Christian to me, just radical and extremist Ballot #106282 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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