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Fuck You, Combat Jesus

left_behind_carnage.jpgWarren Ellis | Fuck You, Combat Jesus

Okay, there’s not actually a “Combat Jesus” in the videogame that’s at the center of this particular Christian effort to clean store shelves. But it’s interesting to see “liberal” Christians make the same mistakes as their anti-culture conservative counterparts:
Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game 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 Campaign to Defend the Constitution and the Christian Alliance for Progress, two online political groups, plan to demand today that Wal-Mart dump Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a PC game inspired by a series of fictional Christian novels that are hugely popular, especially with teens.

The series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is based on their interpretation of the Bible’s Book of Revelation and takes place after the Rapture, when Jesus has taken his people to heaven and left nonbelievers behind to face the Antichrist.

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.

“One of the evil characters is a rock musician. … If you get too close to him your spirit is lowered…”

Posted by Alan on December 12, 2006 04:47 PM |

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