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Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game
doug141 writes "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.Players can choose to join the Antichrist's team, but of course they can never win on [his] side. The enemy team includes fictional rock stars and folks with Muslim-sounding names, while the righteous include gospel singers, missionaries, healers and medics."
...ass-hat would make a game like this in the first place, and what the fsck was Wal-Mart thinking when they agreed to sell it ?
It's not like anyone is going to bomb us for being hateful and derisive of other people and their beliefs. Right?
Hasn't "convert or die" been the motto of christianity for centuries now?
Their next title will be called Crusader. In the first part of it, you go to the middle east in the time of the crusades to kill Arabs, Byzantine Christians, and anyone else who happens to get in the way. Let God sort them out. If you win that portion, the next one is witch hunting back in Europe. Don't leave a single woman or girl alive, she could easily be a witch! You also break into Jewish ghettos killing Rabbis and burning Synagogues. The weird, unchristian stuff they do in there is probably witchcraft, too. Phase 3 is set here in Jesusland, formerly known as The United States. It is a lot like the left behind game, as it is set in modern times, which every fundie knows are the end-times. Kill! Kill! Kill!
How ya like dat?
If I didn't know my history well enough to know that this country was founded by atheistic-leaning deists so that a variety of religious could (and did) immigrate here to practice their religion without being murdered by the government for it, I would ask "why are we selling such insane tripe?"
Alas, while "this country was not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" (as George Washington once said), the nation was attractive in its design of keeping religion and government separate, thus attracting the craziest religious wackos Europe had to offer.
And so today, we have the descendants of those WASPs (and their non-Bible-reading, believers-in-anything, unthinking Catholic parallels) running the nation and pushing -- of all things -- a video game that, against one of the 10 commandments ("thou shalt not kill"), has you running around murdering unbelievers. But then, who ever said religious people were consistent and non-hypocritical?
The game is popular enough to show up on Wal-Mart shelves, and because Wal-Mart carries the game, it is clear that the intended market for the game are the lower classes -- just the sort of people who believe most-strongly in the nonsense that is all deistic belief (whether Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, atheist, or any other belief in the existence/non-existence of a god).
The U.S. is one frighteningly-ignorant nation sometimes.
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...it's good for the Christian community to get a taste of its own methods for once.
Maybe next time they'll leave the Snoop Dogg CDs alone.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Does the phrase "the Crusades" ring any bells here?
How about the cultural damage done to such peoples as the Celts, Native Americans, and Southeast Asians, among many others?
What's their problem with this game, evangelism, murder, or the propogation of fabricated cultural stereotypes?
and you my friend are a dumba$$. Christians most certainly did not bring this country to the state it is in. and I like the idea of portraying the Islamic religion in the light it should be cast. A bunch of cowards who will slit your throat if you don't convert to their religious beliefs. as for the premise of the game, whats it matter it's a game, I can think of worse...
Hmm you are indeed right. Jihad is only a "duty", not a "pillar", however there have been numerous attempts to make it one.
Christians do not hate homosexuals (or Muslims or anyone else). It is the act of homosexuality that we disapprove of. And it's not because we don't want people to do what they want. It's because homosexuality is harmful--to the homosexual. It's like when your parents tell you not to play in the street; it might seem like fun, but they can see the dangers that you don't. God designed sex. He knows how it should work and how it should not be used.
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You go back to the dark ages to bring up an example for Christians, yet I can go to yesterdays newspaper to find murdering atheists. Does this mean all non believers are like that and can be fit into a neat little category like you so kindly did for religious people?
Believe it or not, religious people don't sit around the table at night plotting to come kill you or anyone else.
Stop posting flame-bait.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
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Here's what I sent to them.
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So you haven't received any complaints about this game?
Well here's one. I find this totally offensive. For a company with such a high profile to be peddling crap like this and feeding the fires of racial and religious intolerance is totally unacceptable and completely reprehensible.
You have to be out of your minds to think this is a good way to make money. You can be sure you're never going to see a single dollar from my wallet not for this product or any other that you might choose to sell from here on. I'm sure there's thousands more reading this article and your response to it that are reacting the same way.
Perhaps you can buy the rights to sell dvds of the OJ interview "if i did it" and package it with this game as the ultimate bad taste christmas gift set.
And Christian arrogance teaches you that your god is the correct god, while all the other thousands of gods and goddesses in the history of the human species are just silly fantasies.
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Wow. I thought the entire rock stars are evil thing was stereotyping and satirizing some of the more fundamnetalist Christians. Little did I know... But these guys aren't even trying - theres no BLOOD!!! I mean come on!!!! And no mention of evil homosexuals, people who play D&D, the ACLU, unbaptized babies, Catholic priests...
Also obvious, people with Muslim-sounding names are Muslim. No, no clearly it doesn't endorse prejudice. I'm just giving up on this one though. Theres just no point in trying anymore. Theres so much prejudice against Islam around the world that people don't even recognize it as prejudice anymore.
I mean wow. Just wow. Someone actually coded this. Someone with brains enough to code. Wow.
On the flip side this game seems so over the top it'd probably be entertaining to play. Though I'll wait for the expansion which features Pat Robertson and gang taking out Hugo Chavez and assaulting non-believers with the power of his speech.
I typed a whole lot more here and then just deleted it. Theres just no point really. Fucking Slashdot posting this in the morning - now I get to be depressed the whole day. I don't believe in a god. If there was one there'd be no stupid people.
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
OK Mr. "Absurd. Prejudging...is foolish" hypocrite, I'll grow up just for you. You have to be polite first, though. And I'm going to presume you don't have a response to my post.
Man, you really need that seminar!
I really wish people would stop associating misguided movements like the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas with the "Christian Right". These are Hypocrites and nothing else. Christian Right implies Christian Conservative. By their very nature all Christians are conservative meaning that they tend to look at morality as being important. That however does not mean that they try to force their beliefs on people or condemn people. In fact the book of Romans pretty much forbids that.
People who "hate" homosexuals are misguided and do not represent the beliefs of the Christian Faith. Just because they go around calling themselves Christians doesn't mean they even understand what that means. Jesus taught that while there is right and wrong you should definitely embrace sinners (seeing that we all are sinners) and not judge them. So please stop associating the "Christian Right" with the haters who call themselves as such.
So, what is Jesus's problem? Inferiority complex? I must beg for his forgiveness or he will damn me to hell?
You damn yourself to hell.
By His Grace are we saved, although all of humanity falls short in the eyes of God.
man invented religion, not the other way around
Hmm. Were you there at the time?
There area lot of things that science simply cannot prove - the existence of an Almighty, for example. However, there are many things that science cannot disprove - such as the existence of an Almighty. Those who say that one does not exist are no more rational than those who say that He does.
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