Extreme Prejudice
Update: outeast pointed out in comments that the article linked is, shall we say, long on rhetoric and short on evidence; or perhaps a joke; anyway that it seems to misrepresent what the game is actually like. Somebody play it for me and find out, okay? I certainly don’t want to play it.
Did you look at the Christian dominionist video game items? Exciting, aren’t they? Thrilling to know there are people with views like that out there, planning, planning, planning…
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission – both a religious mission and a military mission – to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state – especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is “to conduct physical and spiritual warfare”; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice.
That sounds like a fairly large number of infidels. In fact it sounds like everyone except dominionist Christians. How long before they take to hijacking planes, one wonders.
This game immerses children in present-day New York City – 500 square blocks, stretching from Wall Street to Chinatown, Greenwich Village, the United Nations headquarters, and Harlem. The game rewards children for how effectively they role play the killing of those who resist becoming a born again Christian.
New York – obviously. Home of the infidel. The UN. ‘New York intellectuals’ which is code for Jews. Jews. Atheists. Intellectuals. Catholics, Muslims, foreigners, queers, arty types, people with a sense of humour, free women, journalists – oh the place is a sewer, I tell you.
The designers intend this game to become the first dominionist warrior game to break through in the popular culture due to its violent scenarios and realistic graphics, lighting, and sound effects…Could such a violent, dominionist Christian video game really break through to the popular culture? Well, it is based on a series of books that have already set sales records – the blockbuster Left Behind series of 14 novels by writer Jerry B. Jenkins and his visionary collaborator, retired Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye.
In other words, yes, easily. Oh well. Antarctica might be warm enough to live in before too long.
PZ has a comment here.
Shouldn’t be all that difficult to come up with what the Civ Fanatics call a “Mod Pack” that permits the luser to play the game as an islamicist jihad.
I’ll say. It sounds as if there isn’t that much modding to do.
“ou are on a mission – both a religious mission and a military mission — to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state – especially moderate, mainstream Christians.”
Sounds very KKK-ish to me. Will there be hoods-on option available?
How about a serious game? Type in “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Pretrib Rapture Diehards,” “Appendix F: Thou Shalt Not Steal,” and “Famous Rapture Watchers” at your friendly neighborhood Google store. Bruce
The extraordinary thing about this game is that there’s apparently an option to play as the antichrist and destroy all the fundies. On the strength of that, I might even be tempted to buy it…
Cool. I was worrying where the next generation of Timothy McVeighs could get their compass.
Without really wanting to poop the party, a little fact-checking (c’mon, we’re supposed to be better than them because checking or facts is what we do) this ‘review’ is, well, a load of hooey.
The game looks rubbish, and odd, and moarally, politically, and theologically dodgy – but it’s not a ‘kill-em-all’ gunfest as described here. It does not, for example, ‘reward … the killing of those who resist becoming a born again Christian’ – in fact all killing is penalized in the game, which is presumably why they needed to put in the option to play as the forces of Satan.
The review that everyone’s quoting from is funny, but it’s an invented review – a joke that’s being reproduced everywhere as fact. What kind of critical thinking is that?
Oh, is it? Er. I did wonder.
I’d better update that then!
Thanks, outeast. You’re quite right. I should have looked for more info.