The Purpose Driven Life Takers

[Alex]

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.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/29/195855/959


*hugs America*

[Riotsword]

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I'd heard about this game for a while. Didn't know that was the actual object of the game... these people need help.

[The Toecutter]

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That's hilarious.

It's likely to gain a cult following if it's good, but highly unlikely to gain any converts.

Even if the creator might be serious, it simply makes him a caricature of himself and his following. I definately wouldn't pay money for this game, but would find humor in playing it.


I bet it will drive all the token liberals bonkers, while the fundy thumpers that agree with the views present will consider it sacred.

Myself? This concept is so absurd it's laughable. Almost as if a fundie tried to make their own version of south Park, only in a racist videogame packed to the brim with bigotry.

It's so frightening that no words can describe how funny I find it...

[Magus]

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Hey. This reminds me.

What happened to Jack Thompson?

[Kire]

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I'd play this only if it was REALLY open ended...like, I could be in the gay army, killing everyone not converting to Teh Ghey and spreading our gaygenda everywhere...cuz you know that's what we really want, right?

[Garr123]

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Did anyone read the article? You can be the on the antichrist side and blow away the christians.

It also has jack thompson bitching and moaning and cutting his ties with the publisher of the game.

[tjoris9]

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On the one hand, this video game is anti-American, because it endorses roving death squads engaged in faith-based violence without any regard for Constitutional law. On the other hand, the video game is anti-Christian, because it argues that the Kingdom of God can be advanced by using the methods and tools of the kingdoms of this world, namely guns and bombs.

I think this is a case where a game publisher has decided that a religiously themed game has to also be insanely violent to sell. I think it's a lack of creativity that we're seeing here.

I would rather play an RPG based on the Left Behind books (And I've heard they're really good books, too) that lets you make up your mind what kind of person you want to play as (Like a deeper version of GTA perhaps). Maybe you want to play as one of the crazies taking advantage of the chaos of millions of people suddenly dissappearing, or maybe you want to build a survivalist group with the intention of bringing some order back to the world. THAT's art in game form. It might not sell like crazy, but it's more dignified than a Christian-version-of-Al-Quaeda training simulation.

[Valkysas]

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I love the idea of this game.
"agree with my beliefs or die!"

[TheHonorableRyu]

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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.

This last phrase seemed a bit nebulous to me until I realized this site is mostly written by those amidst the ranks of the more liberal Protestant denominations (Episcopalian, Methodist, Unitarian, etc.)


For those of you who are used to dealing with extreme fundamentalists or seeing them on TV, you might be interested in learning about the actual origins and tenets of some of their strange theology.

Kingdom Now, dominionist theology theology has the concept that Christ cannot return unless Christians take over all secular institutions, and it is a minority subset within Pentecostal, Charismatic Christianity.

If you read the Bible--especially Revelation--the idea that Christians are supposed to conquer secular institutions at cultural, social, and national levels is absolutely inconceivable and foreign to the heart of Christ and the apostles. Actually, the Triune God sees any mixture of the Gospel with culture, government, nations, politics, religion, philosophy, ethnicity, the Law, entertainment or institutions as an abomination.

The Bible consummating in the New Testament reveals that the essential content of the Christian life is actual interpersonal contact with Christ as our person, our Lord and our life supply. Christ did not die on the cross that the redeemed would get a "get-out-of-hell free" card, but so that the believers would be well-qualified to have the life of God born into them, and live a life of containing and expressing Christ by contacting Him daily. Christians, myself included, who do not enjoy the Lord day by day will lack a vital faith.

It's not until people start locating "Christian faith" in doctrine, organizations, culture, entertainment, politics, etc. that we get all of these deformed fundamentalist agendas.


I'm not sure what the creators of this video game are trying to accomplish, but ultimately I would guess they're just trying to sell a game with an outrageous, sensationalist premise.

[John Mora]

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I'm not sure what the creators of this video game are trying to accomplish, but ultimately I would guess they're just trying to sell a game with an outrageous, sensationalist premise.

There are more outrageous ideas than that. Like playing the role of Jesus and physically giving AIDS to as many people as possible in a limited amount of time! The Gospel meets Philidelphia meets Crazy Taxi!

[Manyak]

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I think this game is hilarious.

It's like JFK Reloaded, only somehow in even poorer taste.

[TheHonorableRyu]

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It looks like the creators' intentions are not a matter of how outrageous, but also a matter of audience.

Left Behind Games CEO Troy Lyndon, whose company went public in February, says the game's Christian themes will grab the audience that didn't mind gore in "The Passion of the Christ." "We've thought through how the Christian right and the liberal left will slam us," says Lyndon. "But megachurches are very likely to embrace this game." Though it will be marketed directly to congregations, Forces will also have a secular ad campaign in gaming magazines.

Megachurches are entertainment depots with a "Christian" name (even South Park exposed how contemporary Christian music is just secular pop music interlaced with "Christian" lingo), but even with this view I'm having a hard time believing that that many people would be so lacking in taste and discernment.

Considering Troy Lyndon's quote above, do you think the situation would be more preposterous if the Left Behind Games guys were exclusively in it for the money or if they also believed what they preached?

[John Mora]

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If they actually believed. For sure.

[Manyak]

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If they actually believed it, they would be almost as bad as Neon Ash.