After the popular [fiction] series "Left Behind" made tabloid fodder for its bestseller readership and its bleak, apocalyptic message of racism and horror, why, it's only natural that it should be made into a video game. That way, kids in the Bible Belt can get a taste of what it's like to kill non-believers before they're actually old enough to swing a bat at their first gaybashing or tranny stomp. Of course, this will invoke the now aging debate that games and violence in the media have an effect on impressionable minds, but before we roast that old chestnut again, let's all take a look at the Tickle-Me-Elmo goodness of Eternal Forces...

Christian video game 'is a force for evil'

The game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, is set in post-apocalyptic New York and features God’s army battling the Antichrist. Based on Left Behind, the bestselling Christian fantasy book series created by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, it puts players in command of brainwashed legions fighting for Christianity.

Players are ordered to convert or kill to advance to the next level and remodel America as a Christian-controlled state, and establish its world vision of Christ’s dominion. They pit battles between the paramilitary Christian Tribulation Force and the grey, faceless, Global Community Peacekeepers of the Antichrist, said to be modelled on the United Nations. The fantasy is based on what might happen if the events of the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, happened today.

Critics accuse its creators of mixing religion and violence to appeal to teenage fans of violent games such as Grand Theft Auto. The game was sold originally in the US. British outlets are releasing the game for the Christmas market. The Left Behind books have sold more than 63 million copies.

Muslim groups have denounced the game as portraying Islam as evil and accuse its creators of insulting their faith. The Muslim Association of Britain called for the game to be banned, describing it as evil. It said: “This game is irresponsible and highly racist. It demonises every other religion which isn’t Christianity. People must boycott this violent game. Games like this poison the minds of young people.”

Terry Sanderson, the president of the National Secular Society, said: “Fundamentalists on both the Christian and the Muslim side are creating this kind of nasty, extreme propaganda and aiming it at young people. I’m not into banning things or censoring them, but I think most Muslims and most Christians would recognise that this is crude and despicable hate-mongering and give it a wide berth.”

The creators of the game have dismissed the criticism, saying that the religious story- line in the game is not taken from the Bible and is a creation of the Left Behind authors, which should not be taken seriously.

Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’s bestselling series of 12 novels started in 1995 with Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days:

- President Bush is said to be a fan of the series

- The theological doctrine in the books and the new game is known as premillennial dispensationalism

- Neither the Church of England nor the Roman Catholic Church has said officially that it does not believe in this apocalyptic scenario

- Christians in both churches endorse their belief in it in the Nicene Creed: “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”

The Nicene Creed always amused me, at that line quite specifically. I always feel like responding, "OK, well, when HE gets here, I think I'd rather leave being smote for my beliefs and actions up to HIM, not YOU, m'kaaay?"

Hey, send me $40. I know Ill be left behind at the Rapture and I PROMISE to send a bunch of "ha ha" letters out for you. Ill be living in Notre Dame Cathedral if you need to find me. (They won't need it any more...)

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Hey, send me $40. I know Ill be left behind at the Rapture and I PROMISE to send a bunch of "ha ha" letters out for you. Ill be living in Notre Dame Cathedral if you need to find me. (They won't need it any more...)

Ixnay on the Notre Damnay old chap. They moved mountains to prevent the molested children from getting their hands on Church property, fat chance they are going to leave it behind for you heathens.

Bigcat wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Hey, send me $40. I know Ill be left behind at the Rapture and I PROMISE to send a bunch of "ha ha" letters out for you. Ill be living in Notre Dame Cathedral if you need to find me. (They won't need it any more...)

I called dibs on the cathedral right after reading the "Left Behind" series. I'll share the fucker but I get the bell tower.

All ya'll can have any tower in Paris you want.  I'm not going that far, with my rifle, to find a tower.

Baywolfe wrote:

really a rapture, all of those boy-fuckers would surely be "left behind."

I like how you assume the biggest boy-fucker of all doesn't already live there.

Bigcat wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Hey, send me $40. I know Ill be left behind at the Rapture and I PROMISE to send a bunch of "ha ha" letters out for you. Ill be living in Notre Dame Cathedral if you need to find me. (They won't need it any more...)

I called dibs on the cathedral right after reading the "Left Behind" series. I'll share the fucker but I get the bell tower.

OK, OK, my fall back plan is the Moron Temple:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

hedgewizard wrote:

All ya'll can have any tower in Paris you want.  I'm not going that far, with my rifle, to find a tower.

"Y'all" is a contraction of "you" and "all"

...wait, we've done this before haven't we?

Once a year for at least the last 6 years and it never ends well.

Fuck all that cathedral nonsense.


Dibs.



It has 3300 rooms, so some of y'all can come visit, if you stay on separate floors.

Dibs on Kutna Hora

MSG Tripps wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Dibs on Kutna Hora

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/292 … 3ed1_b.jpg

Sedlec Ossuary?

Yes.  That is what I meant.  The Sedlec Ossuary IN Kutna Hora.  And, lo, the ignorance of the LORD was revealed to all.

In kenahora?

Baywolfe wrote:

https://cruelery.com/uploads/157_bellagio.jpg
I'll come visit, I'm just down the road.

Yeah, the Bellagio's plenty purty, but the rooms are surprisingly poky, especially compared to Mandalay Bay.

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