This fall, just in time for X-mas season, Left Behind Games will release “Left Behind: Eternal Forces“, a video game based on the wacko right wing Christian Left Behind series of novels which have sold more than 63 million books to more than 63 million idiots.
This game immerses children in present-day New York City -- 500 square blocks, stretching from Wall Street to Chinatown, Greenwich Village, the United Nations headquarters, and Harlem. The game rewards children for how effectively they role play the killing of those who resist becoming a born again Christian.
Jonathan Hudson of Talk to Action describes it further:
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.
Yea, knocking down the twin towers and killing 3000 people was small time. Christians can do better.
Some killjoys, however, have noted that:
The game also offers players the opportunity to switch sides and fight for the army of the AntiChrist, releasing cloven-hoofed demons who feast on conservative Christians and their panicked proselytes (who taste a lot like Christian).
One of these perceptive Gentlemen, a Confessional Lutheran fire-and-brimstone guy named Frank who believes in predestination, isn’t thrilled with the idea of kids guiding the Anti-Christ’s forces on a wingnut killing spree through the streets of New York. Why a mere game upsets him is a bit of a mystery, since this is pretty much what we here in Gotham do on a daily basis, or at least whenever we find one, but I guess he doesn’t want our sport to spread out to the heartland, which is probably wise when you think about it (heart...yum).
Anyway, he’s not one of those negative sorts that just bitches about what’s wrong with the world. He has an idea for an even better game:
But ya know, if this sells even a couple copies, wouldn't it be a good idea to release Koran: Eternal Jihad. Now that's a game I would consider playing on the ole Gamesphere 2000! Wouldn't it be cool to play one of the archangles and start wiping out the Mohammadians.
Yep, to paraphrase a great one, ”give me Osama or St.Paul, give me Christ or give me Hiroshima, I’ve seen the future, man, and it is murder.“
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