Re: Please tell me this is fakematt_arnoldMay 31 2006, 19:31:57 UTC
It's not yet sold. I myself am not quite willing to completely believe this article's synopsis of the game until I see it with my own eyes. Are players intended to literally target non-combatants for failing to convert? Or is the game going to depict homosexuals, buddhists and other groups of non-Christians taking up arms to kill Christians for their beliefs? I'll find out when the game is released.
The actual site for the game alarms me a little less than this review - it looks more like a real time strategy game a la warcraft than a FPS from their screenshots. I think the article on that site is a tad shrill. The trailer for the game is almost funny - it tries to be actively religious but manages to only be quite generic in references to "God" with nothing more specific said.
I don't view this as any bigger a threat than Doom was in 1994, and people got all horribly up in arms about that too about what it was going to incite and what prurient interests it was going to serve. And then violent crime incidence decreased dramatically. So go figure. This is cynical salesmanship with religion slapped on the cover to make more people buy it - those that would usually condemn such a game. Not very Christian, but hey, these sorts of business decisions rarely are.
I tend to worry more about actual theocratic states that really do exist now and are actively pursuing nuclear weapons programs.
I agree with you. I'm still not all that comfortable about the megachurches, particularly those who are as brazen as Rick Warren about their designs on us. But I think they're at the peak of their power.,They're so blinded by their belief in God's inevitable blessing on their movement that they'll over-do it, burn out, turn everybody against them and fall from power.
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I'm amazed this ever got made let alone sold????? I'm disgusted at the very thought of it.
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I don't view this as any bigger a threat than Doom was in 1994, and people got all horribly up in arms about that too about what it was going to incite and what prurient interests it was going to serve. And then violent crime incidence decreased dramatically. So go figure. This is cynical salesmanship with religion slapped on the cover to make more people buy it - those that would usually condemn such a game. Not very Christian, but hey, these sorts of business decisions rarely are.
I tend to worry more about actual theocratic states that really do exist now and are actively pursuing nuclear weapons programs.
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