By Andrew Warner
I remember a time when Rock Star Video games was in Senator Clinton's crosshairs for promoting violent video games like the infamous Grand Theft Auto. You'll still see reports of Clinton and Lieberman's crusade against video games trickling into the news to this very day.
I'm just curious when they are going to get on their soap box about the controversial Left Behind series – a video game where believers are taught to slay non-believers in the form of fictional rock stars and Muslims.
Even Wal-Mart is catching a little heat for peddling this exercise in discrimation:
But it's okay, the game doesn't teach try to teach the practice of killing non-believers. You lose a few "spirit points" if you decide to take down non-believers instead of putting them on to the Bible:
Whatever happened to the days of indiscriminately killing people for their car, recklessly driving it around town, and then using it to bang prositutes in the back seat?
Those extreme Christians had to go and make deranged video games personal and divisive. Let's see if Ms. Clinton will risk some Christian votes and call foul on the apocalypse training game.
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I remember a time when Rock Star Video games was in Senator Clinton's crosshairs for promoting violent video games like the infamous Grand Theft Auto. You'll still see reports of Clinton and Lieberman's crusade against video games trickling into the news to this very day.
I'm just curious when they are going to get on their soap box about the controversial Left Behind series – a video game where believers are taught to slay non-believers in the form of fictional rock stars and Muslims.
Even Wal-Mart is catching a little heat for peddling this exercise in discrimation:
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.
But it's okay, the game doesn't teach try to teach the practice of killing non-believers. You lose a few "spirit points" if you decide to take down non-believers instead of putting them on to the Bible:
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."
Whatever happened to the days of indiscriminately killing people for their car, recklessly driving it around town, and then using it to bang prositutes in the back seat?
Those extreme Christians had to go and make deranged video games personal and divisive. Let's see if Ms. Clinton will risk some Christian votes and call foul on the apocalypse training game.
Read Andrew Warner's blog by clicking here >