rticle on Talk to action about people being programmed into violence.

[ladyinred]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/6/4/145852/2596 ,and http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/12/4/182754/325 ,http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/6/1/82458/92817 Also scroll down further and read info about the left behind game series that is being marketed to big retailers such as Walmart. In the game violence is sanctioned against, gays, jews, moderate Christians, catholics, that don't fit into the radical rights interpretation of christianity. I signed a petition
at the defcon site to have the game taken off Walmart's shelves. Excerpts from the article...

ABOVE: suitable for 6 year olds ? new Christian "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" video game promotional image shows, piling up on virtual NYC streets, corpses of city residents not succesfully converted to favored brand of Christianity.

A discussion in the commentary following Talk To Action member Jonathan Hutson's second "Purpose Driven" series ( "Violent Video Game Marketed Through Mega-Churches" ) drew my attention back to the astounding volume of hate speech - against liberals, Jews, gays, Muslims, non-Christians, atheists, women, and probably some groups I'm forgetting - that has issued from the mouths or keyboards of leaders of the Christian right and the GOP over the course of the last few decades.
In the discussion following Hutson's post, one Talk To Action member suggested that publicizing the character of the "Left Behind : Eternal Forces" video game - which depicts Christian paramilitary forces fighting in NYC to convert to Christianity or kill all the residents of the city - might be counterproductive because that could prevent the game from coming to market and - so the argument went - mass sales of the game might actually be a good thing because it would draw public attention to the "true nature " of the American Christian right. The idea was that sales of the game would provoke wider media attention that would bring the character of the game to the nature of the wider American public.

[RainbowL'elly]

you know how so many killings are blamed on video games?

i wonder what would happen if some kid went out and killed people and all the press could print was, "he was such a good christian kid...all he ever played on his gamestation was that left behind game- we thought it was good for him, seeing as it's a christian game."

i'm such a cynic, but if grand theft auto can be blamed, i want to see this one burn too.