Games & Religion 03 Oct 2007 01:20 pm
Hasn’t the Left Behind Game been … left behind?
You may, or may not, recall the little tiffle I got into with the folks at Talk2Action last year about the Left Behind Game. What’s interesting is that according to Public Theologian, the makers of the game are threatening legal action against people who speak against the game, because they are coming out with an “expansion pack”. He says:
Christians should not sit silently while corporate money-grubbers make a buck out of perverting the Christian faith. Nor should we sit silently when a game is marketed to children promoting religious violence while American soldiers are dying overseas in the middle of a religious and ethnic civil war. We should not have anything in our possession which would hinder us from speaking the truth about what is happening. Better to have nothing and be honest than well-off and complicit with evil.
When I wrote my blog entries about the game, I got a silly spammy comments from the game people in my blog. The game hasn’t sold well, and hasn’t gotten good reviews, so that should be enough to get rid of it, finally. It’s a silly implementation of a whacked premise from a series of books that are problematic at best, and certainly not something Jesus would find especially in line with his teachings.
I’ll quote a bumpersticker that I really need to find a copy of: “When Jesus said ‘love your enemies’, he probably meant not to kill them.”