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PlayStations of the Cross

Posted by Zonk on from the forgive-me-father-for-i-have-HADOKEN! dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Oh, the possibilities by SetupWeasel · · Score: 4, Informative

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

    Watch it very, very drunk.

  2. Re:(Organized) Religion is always a cash-cow by Enrico+Pulatzo · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  3. Re:Crusades by __aamkky7574 · · Score: 2, Informative
    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.