PlayStations of the Cross

theodp writes "Is there a place amid the witches, warlocks and diabolical monsters for Christian video games? The NY Times reports companies like Brethren Entertainment ('Entertaining for Eternity'), Digital Praise ('Glorifying God Through Interactive Media'), and N'Lightning believe that there is a market in faith-based video games. If the idea of Christian first-person shooters seems unlikely, so too did the idea of Christian pop music, which accounted for 7% of the total pop-music market and sold 43+ million albums last year."

Comments

Re:Oh, the possibilities

[SetupWeasel]

You do know that there is a movie by that name.

Watch it very, very drunk.

Re:(Organized) Religion is always a cash-cow

[Enrico Pulatzo]

"entirely non-violent"? Is this the same guy who fashioned a whip and drove salesmen out of the temple?

Re:Syncretism

[Anonymous Coward]

Adventures in Odyssey is a long-running series of radio plays and books for children. The character Whit is well established by now. From what little I remember about the radio show, which I last heard while I still liked the Snorks, it was rather good and dealt with pretty deep topics for children. I don't remember Whit working for the DoD, but I'd wager it's simply a plot device to explain why he has the means to build some of his stranger inventions. I seem to recall some sort of virtual reality device that let people experience Bible stories personally, for example. However, I suppose things could have changed for the worse since I was a kid.

Re:Crusades

[__aamkky7574]

Who modded this "interesting"? It's pure fiction. The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was actually sacked by Christians in 1204, led by the then Doge of Venice: http://aggreen.net/church_history/1204_sack.html/

A mob rushed into Santa Sophia. With the Image of the Pantacrator looking down upon them from the great dome, they broke up the altar for its gold content, smashed the icons, threw the Holy Gifts to the floor, seized the church vessels for their Jewels, and tore mosaics and tapestries from the walls. Horses and mules were brought into the church the better to carry off the sacred vessels, gold, silver, and whatever else they could gather. Drunken soldiers drank from chalices and ate from patens while riding asses draped with priestly vestments. A mocking prostitute was placed on the Patriarch's chair to dance and sing obscene songs. This pattern of pilferage and desecration was repeated in churches, monasteries and palaces throughout the city. The tombs of the emperors were rifled, and all of the classical statues and monuments which had survived from ancient Greece and imperial Rome were destroyed. One writer wrote that never in history had so much beauty, so much superb craftsmanship been so wantonly destroyed in so short a space of time. What was not carried off was burned, smashed, melted down for its precious metal content, or stripped for its jewels.

In 2001, the then Pope apologised for the sack.

Constantinople was eventually conquered by the Ottomans well after the last crusade. Far from sacking it, then turned it into a mosque without much destruction (even the original mosaics - depicting human forms - were covered by plaster rather than destroyed).

P.