Holiday Strangeness, Part 3: “Convert or Die”
Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game [Left Behind: Eternal Forces] in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart, a major video game retailer, should yank it off its shelves.
. . . The Rev. Tim Simpson, a Jacksonville, Fla., Presbyterian minister and president of the Christian Alliance for Progress, added: “So, under the Christmas tree this year for little Johnny is this allegedly Christian video game teaching Johnny to hate and kill?”
The news story, from the San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Convert or Die’ Game Divides Christians
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 9:19 AM
3 Comments:
That is almost too unbelievable to be true. I feel like it's a satire piece from LarkNews or something. Good lord, if it weren't a video game, I'd ask exactly which era we were living in.
Gasp.
Wilber's levels and lines, Trev. Levels and lines.
That's why I included the link to the video game. At first I thought it was a parody too, one in horribly bad taste. But no, this game actually exists.
The morfe wisdom I get, the more I laugh. It’s a win-win sort of deal.
... Left Behind Games' president, Jeffrey Frichner, says the game actually is pacifist because players lose "spirit points" every time they gun down nonbelievers rather than convert them. They can earn spirit points again by having their character pray.
Thanks for finding this nugget. So many times truth is stranger than fiction.
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