Kill 'Em All, Let God -- Well, You Know

[filkertom]

Lovely.

Crooks and Liars alerts us of an upcoming video game based on the Left Behind series (here's the official page for it) wherein you can either be a Christian killing infidels or the Antichrist killing Christians.

Because, after all, they say this cat Jesus was a bad mutha-

When? When do people start saying These sick fucks are not a part of any Christianity I've ever heard about?

Comments

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

oo! I wanna be the Antichrist!

[brianh]

Some of us have been saying it for years, really.

I'm the...

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

"Goddam Jesus-Nut Muthafucka!"

*sigh* I doubt people will wise up until it's almost too late. But I can hope that the more these idiots come out of the woodwork the more the regular guys and gals will see how far it's gone.

I talk to people, I rant, I show them what these nutballs are doing, and still they don't believe.

Maybe I'm just explaining things wrong but I figure even if I am then it at least brings doubt to their view of these people. And in this case that's a precious thing because it's the one thing these people (the nutballs) don't have and it's the one thing they want to prevent in the people that they try and swing their way.

[Yoda]
Doubt leads to questions,
Questions lead to thinking,
Thinking leads to understanding!

I hope for much understanding in you...
[/Yoda]

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

Life just gets weirder and weirder. I can see the Christians vs everyone else part (it depresses me, but I can see it), but I wonder who on the design team thought that having an Antichrist option would be a good idea. I guess they were going for the fundie & antifundie dollar at the same time. Weird.

Now if it had a Cultist of Cthulhu option I might go for it...

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am not a good enough artist to draw Christhulhu.

Fortunately.

[que-sara-sara.livejournal.com]

But it IS part of the Christianity I've heard about! The first crusade into Jeruselum they killed ALL of its residents, not caring if they were Muslum, Jew or Christian. Male or female.

This has nothing to do with Jesu Christ or his message, but it does have everything to do with what Christianity has become today with only very rare exceptions.

If Jesus does come back I hope he manages to tell every single one of these people how badly they've twisted his teachings before sending them to be reincarnated in their own personal version of hell over and over again until they learn their lessons.

Jesus was an enlightened Jew. None of that resembles Christianity today. Unless either the Gnostics or Essenes are still hiding somewhere in force.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

That is just repulsive.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

As with all other institutions, it evolves over time. Christianity as it is now and Christianity nine hundred years ago aren't the same creature, nor should they be treated as such. Collective guilt ain't cool.

Besides, if you're willing to carry on guilt from that far back, you won't find a single culture on this planet deserving of respect, much less any kind of admiration.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Well, I have been for years, but I'm Jewish. I don't count.

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

This is a ridiculous idea for a game. I predict its arc will be something like that of the 50 Cent game which was released a little while ago:

1) Game is released
2) People of varying types go "OH NO THIS IS EVIL WE MUST BAN!"
3) Gamers play it, go "OH NO, THIS GAME IS AWFUL! KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!"
4) Game dies an obscure and forgotten death.

I also find it quite weird that a game being released by a fundamentalist Christian group includes a "play-as-the-Antichrist" option. Somehow, I have a sneaking feeling that that might prove to be more popular than the regular mode among those who play this. I mean...demons! RRARRGGH!

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Also, it seems like they're using icons from Warcraft III (http://www.leftbehindgames.com/pages/images/screenshots/ss1.jpg). Look at that potion bottle in the lower right hand corner!

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

I wonder, if you play the antichrist, do you get bonus points for killing Robertson and other liars, er, I mean televangelists? Can the antichrist mode go into the white house and kill the bush staff, er, I mean God's Warriors? And if you play the christian side, do you get bonus points for unleashing tidal waves on the west coast, assassinating south american politicians, and ripping the sermon on the mount out of the bible? I'm sure they want to do that, I mean, it gets in the way of all that wholesome christian slaughter.

Wish this was a joke...

[farnex.livejournal.com]

If today was April first then this would be a great joke, but it is not April and I still want to believe this is a joke, because I don't want to believe this is real. You wanna talk about signs of the end times THIS game is a sign.

I know some of you aren't Christians, and I admit I struggle everyday with my faith, but I can't imagine any Christians playing this game or even conceiving this game. On behalf of good and kind Christian Men and Women who arent' perfect but do their best to serve the Lord, I want to apologize for our brothers and sisters who have supported this awlful endevor.

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

that's....fricken' creepy. moreso because i had a fitful several hours' sleep during which the only dream i recall having involved me being regarded as the antichrist and having a terrible time trying to stay alive long enough to prove i'm not.
the left behind books have always struck me as a weird subgroup of novels, and they're alluded to in one of 2003's humana festival plays, called "faculty room." worth a read if you can find the script, including one of the best narnia references i've seen in theatre in a while.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the position has already been filled. >:)

Re: Wish this was a joke...

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

hey, i've known some very nice and reasonable, upstanding people who happen to be Christians, and their religion probably had at least something to do with that. i looked around my Catholic church at around age nine and saw how it worked for some people, and others were just going thru the motions. the faith didn't resonate with me, and i felt that Deity of any variety deserved better than mere lip service, and started seeking my own path. but i've always kept in mind that other people probably feel the same way about my faith - it's interesting, but not their way - and made the decision to live and let live. you and people like you remind me that it was a sound and good decision. :-) so don't worry, i for one don't blame you for the wingnuts and weirdos who happen to also be Christians. i know i've got plenty of them on my side of the church doors myself.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

When? When it starts impinging on people in a direct and personal way. If hypocrisy was all it took, Dumbass would've been impeached in 2003, preceded by Darth Cheney. Fortunately, I see signs of spring. Moderate and Progressive Christians are starting to come forward more loudly now. People who were suckered in by The Idiot's repeated claims of moral superiority are turning on him. The times, as Bob Dylan put it, are a-changin'.

Typically, of course, the media is slow to react and thinks they should still be in a 'slam the left, push the right' mode.

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

:-D who said you had to be a GOOD artist to draw? take a swing at it anyway. we of fandom are a forgiving bunch and appreciate inspiration as well as technical skill.
otherwise i would be muzzled before being allowed into any filk concert. i can carry a note without the benefit of a bucket sometimes, honest. but only on really good days.

[kengr]

"When do people start saying These sick fucks are not a part of any Christianity I've ever heard about?"

About the same time they get the idea that the "problem" Muslims aren't following the Koran worth a damn?

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

This is semi-off topic, but...I went to Amazon to look at the Left Behind series (what I knew about it was Kirk Cameron's in a movie based on it, woo-hoo) and found someone's list of "My Favorite Chistian Fantasy/Sci-Fi."

4 books I never heard of. Okay.
The ENTIRE Left Behind series. Okay.
Chronicles of Narnai. Okay.
The Hobbit. Oka--wait, what?
The Fellowship of the Ring/The Two Towers/The Return of the King.

Bwah?

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

This holiday season...

Jackie Chan

IS

JESUS OF NAZARETH.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

No, in Antichrist mode, Robertson, LaHaye and the Bushies are all on your side. You use them to pretend to be on the side of Jesus, the better to trick the most righteous, innocent souls (worth the most points) into following you down the path to corruption, damnation and eternal fire and guh-nashing of teeth.

"Yes, my son...it is the will of the Christ that, if you see a sinful homosexual defiling the church by his presence, you must SLAY him right there at the altar. God will love you for that."

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

"Alas for you, money-changers! You have turned my Father's House into a den of THIEVES!" (Biff! Bam! Crunch! Howl! Snarl! Honk! Poot!)

[skaramine.livejournal.com]

Didn't John, in Revelations say "anyone seeking to change or reinterpret these prophecies is damned?" or words to that effect.

If John wasn't a total nutrod, then those two are on the express train to hell.

If John was a nutrod, then the book of Revelations (which goes completely contrary to the rest of the New Testament) is apocryphal, and this, Lehayne and that other dork are spinning unwarranted idiot fiction.

Either way... no skin off my nose.