articledominion games websiteThe Dominionist Church has developed a new roll-playing video game for kids, set in New York City. The player can either "be" a christian, and battle UN Peace-keeping forces (evil), or the player can command a host of demons and UN Peace-keeping forces, to battle christians.
The setting is post-rapture Earth. The evangelicals have raptured up and the rest of the species remains. (As the "left Behind" series posits to be the case today). Satan has been elected UN Secretary General. The aim of the game (should the player opt to fight on the side of the christians), is to convert the remaining humans who've not joined the church, ("neutrals"), to the church, to serve in your squadron. Before the UN recruitment officers deceive them into serving mammon. While battling the UN Peace-keepers, military-style. In a city like NYC, there's bound to be some collateral damage:
"If you happen to blow away a neutral party - and collateral damage is inevitable in the End of Days - then you will lose "Spirit Points". But you can power back up with merely a brief timeout for prayer, or by converting one of New York's terror-stricken citizens."
Note that in the screenshot above it seems the child was either the heathen of the family, or somebody's taking a time out right now. Was it the lit bundle of TNT the avatar is holding, that got the unfortunate little heathen? If you (the player) make a mistake and kill a "neutral," it's okay! Collateral damage IS inevitable in urban warfare, and the Lord is a forgiving God; you can just take a quick time-out, pray a quick "oops, sorry Lord," and all's forgiven. Back to the front, soldier!
I've not found details on how one "converts" a neutral, and wonder if the player types in "have you heard the word of... today?" "Would you care to make a small donation..." is probably key to failure.
The "collateral damage" doesn't go away, and the bodies pile up. A million New Yorkers dead in the streets might offend some, that roving death squads roam the streets of a major American city, leaving piles of collateral damage in their insane war against perceived demons, may offend others. That kids will acquire the ability to demonize whoever authority calls a demon, and kill them, may offend still others. That all this killing is ascribed to God's wishes should offend many. But it's okay, there's a lot of praying going on! And the remaining neutrals will have to take sides, now.
Good, psycho, roving death-squad, nine-commandments, christian mayhem fun, to indoctrinate the youth into what must be done, in the name of the Lord: have an enemy defined for them, and kill it, amen.
Stop the presses! A mainstream broadcast media journalist has diverted from the Ministry of Truth's official news for today and spoken aloud of a verboten subject! Catherine Crier, of Court TV, has given shrift to the issue of democracy and individual participation therein. She has gone where no TV reporter (aside from Stewart, Colbert, Olberman and Franken) dared go before: the elections of '00 & '04, and the blatant fraud and official tampering by the republican party in both. What's next? ABC, NBC, CBS? The WSJ?
