Left Behind: Eternal Forces

30 May

Yesterday, on T2A, we were introduced to The Purpose Driven Life Takers. An ultra-violent video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, based on scenes from the first four novels in the Left Behind novel series, puts you “on a mission – both a religious mission and a military mission — to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state”. It’s to be rated T for Teens, meaning it is targeted at the 13-19 year old age group, and is “slated for release by October 2006 in advance of the Christmas shopping rush”.

You can read another article on this travesty here: So Much For Rick Warren Being a Warm-and-Fuzzy Evangelical.

This is NOT what Christianity is about. Period, end of sentence. It’s just so sad to see such a great man’s philosophy so seriously corrupted.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37ff)

I simply cannot understand how these people can reconcile the game with his two commandments.

x-posted to , with thanks to omorka for bringing it to my attention.

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28 May

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26 May

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Gilead and Oceania have spawned – Be on the lookout

26 May

Two separate links you must go read.

http://alobar.livejournal.com/1655707.html?style=mine

http://ebonypearl.livejournal.com/141567.html?style=mine

Thanks to sunfell and nebris for the links.

Stop the new incarnation of the FMA

25 May

From the People for the American Way:

Return of the Federal Marriage Amendment

Anxious to hold on to their Congressional majority by motivating their Religious Right base to vote in November, Republicans intend to trot out and force Congressional votes on the so-called ‘Marriage Protection Amendment,’ which in fact would “protect” discrimination by writing it into the United States Constitution.

It is urgent that Senators hear from you that our American values support equality and oppose discrimination and that we want them to oppose this discriminatory amendment.

Email your senators now!

Protest music lives again

24 May

Received via email from Ian Rhett:

Semper Fi is Alive!

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National language. How utterly pointless…

23 May

Once again, Leonard Pitts Jr. just gets it. In case you haven’t noticed, I rarely if ever disagree with this man.

It’s liberty, not language, that unites a nation
By Leonard Pitts Jr.

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10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

23 May

Got this from kiji_kat, who got it from zarq, who got it from a CraigsList post.

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19 May

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15 May

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