So, everyone has heard of the Left Behind book series, right? Well, the buzz is that the video game is coming out soon. Yes, a Left Behind video game. Now, before I go any further there are two things I want you to know:
1) I have not read any of the Left Behind books and don't really want to. I don't quite know how I feel about the Rapture. It's a nice idea-for all the Christians to be sucked up and away before the hard times start-but I'm not really sure that Scripture supports that idea. I tell you this to say that I am not a follower of the series and am not writing in it's defense.
2) The game has not come out yet. The claims against the game are not directly asked to the creators and therefore cannot really be definate until the game has come out. But, there are tons and tons of places that all say the same thing. Still, I tell you this to say that I will have to give the creators the benefit of the doubt... thought it is hard for me to do so. But that's why this is 'Pt 1.' I will publish 'Pt 2.' when the game comes out and I know for sure.
Okay, according to the claims, the premise of this gams is this:
You run around in 50 square blocks of post-rapture New York City and try to convert non-believers. You are issued a weapon and join up with a paramilitary group to battle the Anti-Christ's forces. Here's the clincher: when people don't convert to Christianity, you are supposed to shoot them. So, according to the claims all over the place this is a convert-or-die game.
If this is true, it's rediculous. I mean, this is the stigma that Christians have been trying to get away from for hundreds of years. This is exactly why people hate Christians, and if this is true then they aren't doing anything to help themselves. They are promoting Christian Jihad. It's insulting to me and it honestly makes me sick beacuse it just reinforces the idea that Christians don't care about anyone else, and anyone who is not a Christian is not worth anything; and that is wrong!
Supposedly the creators of the book series are supporters of it, as well as the author of The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren (who plans to market it throught the 'mega church'). Part of me would like to think that they are not that out of their minds to support this game if the claims are right. But part of me is also not suprised.
I feel that I can't say much more about it because, like I said, I want to wait and be sure about how the game is. We'll have to see what happens, though... look out for Pt 2.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
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I read an article in Computer Games Magazine a while ago about the game. They said it was based on influence, converting innocents over to the side of God, and fighting those who have chosen satan. There was no mention of guns.
These claims of shooting non-believers, from what I've found, comes from some online source. From there, many other blogs have pushed it around the net, turning it into common knowledge, whether true or false.
I've read, I think the first five books. I lost track at some point and never picked them back up. They are fantasy books, and certainly an entertaining read. Knowing what i know of them, I don't think the game would have this "kill the non-christians" theme. it doesn't even make sense from a game standpoint.
Yeah, I think it's just talk, too. I don't want to believe what all the websites and blogs say, but the screenshots do show that you control swat-team-type people (I forget what they're called), but again, I don't know to what extent the gameplay takes this. All I know is that if it is true, I'll be pissed.
Just a heads up. Here's an article talking about this game having spyware.
interesting...
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