Walmart Selling ReligiousRight Kids Game Where They Lill Muslims & Jews

[Jon8503]

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 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.

"You are fighting a defensive battle in the game," Frichner, whose previous company produced Bible software, said of combatting the Antichrist. "You are a sort of a freedom fighter."

A Wal-Mart spokeswoman said the retailer has no plans to pull Left Behind: Eternal Forces from any of the 200 of Wal-Mart's 3,800 stores that offer the game, including just seven in California. The nearest are in Chico and Redding.


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[marmar]

1. Are Christofacists trying to subliminally program their own "Jihadists"?

Onward Christian soldiers?

[Jackpine Radical]

8. What subliminally? Supraliminally.

[aquart]

2. Focus on the Family Manson.

[tuvor]

3. You can get it at Target, too.

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-1/qid=1165974440/ref=sr_1_1/601-3201306-4147308?ie=UTF8&asin=B000JWY7SU

(Edit: And a ton of other retailers, according to your link.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I picked up a copy off the shelf to look at it. Not only is it offensive it

also looks pretty lame.

I think it will sell every bit as well as the Christian version of Dungeons and Dragons where, instead of casting spells, you recite Bible verses. :eyes:

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

5. This is fucked up.

[Kiouni]

6. "you just winged him now he's a unitarian" n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

9. ROFL

Zing! :rofl:

[Junkdrawer]

11. Best.Post.Of.The.Day

:rofl:

[Lurking Dem]

16. aw damn

I think I just hurt myself laffin'! :rofl:

[msongs]

7. been going on for 2000 years, just new technology is all nt

[WernhamHogg]

10. Reason #174726124784823 to never shop at Wal Mart...

Wal Mart will sell this, but they found The Daily Show book too offensive to sell?

[tuvor]

14. Delete

Misunderstood your point.

[treestar]

12. Christianists have argued to me that the Muslims want to convert

us at the point of a gun - we convert or they kill us. Ironic that this is the fulcrum this game rests upon.

But how in a video game do you "convert" somebody? That part may be interesting.

:rofl:

[janx]

13. This is CRAZY. n/t

[alfredo]

15. Reminds me of this Gospel Tune

Sinner You'd Better Get Ready

Sinner You'd Better Get Ready

Oh sinner, you'd better get ready
Oh you'd better get ready hallelujah,
Sinner you'd better get ready,
The time's a comin when the sinner must die.

Oh god gave Noah the rainbow sign,
The time's a comin when the sinner must die,
I won't be by water, be by fire next time,
The time's a comin when the sinner must die.

I thought I heard the preacher say,
The time's a comin when the sinner must die,
You'd better get down on your knees and pray,
The time's a comin when the sinner must die.

Recorded by the Louvin Brothers