Monday, June 12, 2006

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

A colleague of mine passed this article on to me. I've been following this game for awhile now, but it still fascinates me each time I look at it.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-godgames10may10,0,1546594,full.story?coll=la-home-business

Some of you have heard me speak on LaHaye and Jenkins' series of books in the Left Behind series, and you know that I'm not a big fan of the whole use of fear to motivate people into Heaven. Then again, I don't think that Jesus did either.

Now what do we make of a video game (manufactured by people who say that there is too much blasphemous and sinful violence in video games) that allows you to conduct violence against soldiers of the Antichrist or vice versa (violence against Christian soldiers)?

I'm reminded of Mark 7 where Jesus takes some religious leaders to task over their hypocrisy because they adamantly insist that people conform to religious hand-washing rituals but they also allow people to inappropriately use finances that were meant to honor their fathers and mothers.