Jesus rides beside me and never buys any smokes
Oh, Christ: http://articles.news.aol.com/business/_a/video-games-religious-wars-stir-debate/20061212165409990014?ncid=NWS00010000000001
"The Left Behind" book series has now been turned into a shoot-em-up video game, which pits "Christians" against the forces of the "Global Community Peacekeepers," who seek to impose a one-world government. Christians can be penalized for "excessive killing," but can make up lost points by praying. The goal is to kill or convert members of the GCP and eventually defeat their leader, The Anti-Christ. Wal-Mart refuses to stop selling the game.
I don't know why Christians romanticizing retribution - however violent - against non-Christians should surprise anyone in 2006. Whenever stuff like this comes up, the general reaction amongst coherent, everyday Christians is "Well, certainly this doesn't represent the faith of the majority...those people are nuts." Yet, aside from the usual concerned parties - left-leaning pastors and Christian organizations - the "rational" Christians will sit around and let the allegedly vocal minority run their fucking religion off a cliff, and no one does anything! They let the inmates run the asylum without stepping up for their "true" beliefs, then THEY play the victim when the non-Christian elements of society get a little antsy about having so many True Believers with their fingers on the fucking buttons. Its like those white Southerners who sat around while the riff-raff beat the shit out of the Freedom Riders in the 1960s, and now can't understand why no one looks at the rebel flag with the same "heritage, not hate" pathos that they do.
If this kind of stuff really doesn't represent the core values of Christianity, then why isn't there a louder outcry when evil shit is perpetrated in their name? Do they not mind? Are they afraid? Are they not sure whose in the right?
"The Left Behind" book series has now been turned into a shoot-em-up video game, which pits "Christians" against the forces of the "Global Community Peacekeepers," who seek to impose a one-world government. Christians can be penalized for "excessive killing," but can make up lost points by praying. The goal is to kill or convert members of the GCP and eventually defeat their leader, The Anti-Christ. Wal-Mart refuses to stop selling the game.
I don't know why Christians romanticizing retribution - however violent - against non-Christians should surprise anyone in 2006. Whenever stuff like this comes up, the general reaction amongst coherent, everyday Christians is "Well, certainly this doesn't represent the faith of the majority...those people are nuts." Yet, aside from the usual concerned parties - left-leaning pastors and Christian organizations - the "rational" Christians will sit around and let the allegedly vocal minority run their fucking religion off a cliff, and no one does anything! They let the inmates run the asylum without stepping up for their "true" beliefs, then THEY play the victim when the non-Christian elements of society get a little antsy about having so many True Believers with their fingers on the fucking buttons. Its like those white Southerners who sat around while the riff-raff beat the shit out of the Freedom Riders in the 1960s, and now can't understand why no one looks at the rebel flag with the same "heritage, not hate" pathos that they do.
If this kind of stuff really doesn't represent the core values of Christianity, then why isn't there a louder outcry when evil shit is perpetrated in their name? Do they not mind? Are they afraid? Are they not sure whose in the right?