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December 25, 2006[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFT06jyWiIE]
Our grade 8 Spanish masterpiece has finally made it onto youtube, thanks many thanks to the Grandmaster.
It is sure to be an major hit.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFT06jyWiIE]
Our grade 8 Spanish masterpiece has finally made it onto youtube, thanks many thanks to the Grandmaster.
It is sure to be an major hit.
I returned from my Christmas vacation (let’s call it what it is) to discover comment left by the good people of Left Behind Games. This is interesting for a couple of reasons: first of all, nobody has any reason to read this blog. I have a total readership of about 3, and (having checked myself) there is no Google search containing the words “left behind” short of “left behind chlorine silicon” that will turn up that post.
This suggests one of two things: either the “Left Behind” programmers have developed a fairly sophisticated bot able to detect only those blogs that are critical in any way of left behind (unlikely) or they are hiring some poor BYU student to scan the blogosphere looking for posts about the game and posting a form response.
Also interesting is the fact that whoever left the comment clearly didn’t read the article, which is not about the contents of the game at all but rather Wal-Mart’s decision to stock it.
The contents of the message are also worth reading.
Focus on the Family, Concerned Women For America, Women of Faith, Outreach Magazine, National Network of Youth Ministers, and Promise Keepers are just some of the organizations that support LEFT BEHIND: Eternal Forces [...]
You know you have a problem when the best review you can get is from Focus on the Family. That one line kills any sympathy they might have possibly gotten from moderate Christians.
Our game is the first game ever to encourage the use of prayer and
worship as the most effective means to resolve conflict. Physical warfare is discouraged as the least effective means for resolving conflict…and a gamer loses points for using a gun.
Which, of course, is why killing people also helps you to reach your goal of converting or “removing” all of the infidels from the world. I also wonder about the wisdom behind promoting prayer as “the most effective means to resolve conflict”.
Our game does not teach the pre-tribulation theology of the book
series, except that this worldview is utilized as a fictional backdrop
of the game.
This is fascinating. After fully endorsing the contents of the books, our friend tries to distance himself from the series (an attempt to win back the moderates they alienated in paragraph 1?). I suppose that this is understood much in the same way that “Medal of Honor: Allied Assault” uses the second world war as a “fictional backdrop” without “endorsing” the war or suggesting that it actually took place.
But I’ll stop talking about “Left Behind”. After all, I still haven’t played the game myself.
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I always new the Antichrist would be a Romanian.
There’s been some buzz the past couple of days about Wal-Mart’s decision to stock the video game Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a spinoff of the popular Left Behind series fo books. Liberal groups are now attempting to have it removed from the shelves. So why all the fuss?
The basic premise of the series (and of the game) is that all of the righteous people of the Earth have been removed in the Rapture, and those “left behind” need to prepare for the Final Coming Of The Lord. This, naturally, involves converting or killing every nonbeliever you encounter.
But still, why such a big deal? After all, these are not new ideas – they’ve been preached for centuries, and spread throughout the world in the form of history’s best-selling book. Nobody asks for preachers to be removed from their pulpits or Sunday schools to be shut down simply because they teach a message that some of the population disagrees with. If the Richard Dawkins can call for the wholesale abandonment of religion, why can’t orthodox Christians call for the wholesale adoption of Christianity?
Coming as it does from the same people who started “keep your laws off my body,” one would think that there would be a little more sympathy for “keep your hands off my religion.” But alas, only when unpopular ideas are “right” do they deserve to be spread.
Let’s face it, a victory for the protesters here just sets a precedent for supression of video games the right doesn’t like. Spore? How dare you try to make my child believe in evolution!
Let’s put our money where our mouth is and fight for our right to be cast into the Lake of Fire on Judgement Day.
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…not guilty. On the other hand, we’re all so sick of our the case now that nobody cares. I’m starting to realize that although we’re good this year, I don’t think we’re going to be quite good enough to win state. Everyone’s got a couple of rough patches, and there are some people that have still never seen a real match. In some ways that takes the pressure off, so we can just relax and enjoy it.
Now if I can only find a book that Leah has never read before….
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