This is out, churches are adopting video games, to lure unsuspecting teenagers. The reason behind this is simply, of course. With teenagers stuck at home playing video games, why not get stuck in churches playing video games instead? Of course this tactic is fairly common in religion, when rock music became popular, religion started making its own rock albums, when cartoons were what kids like to watch, religion also had to have their own cartoons. Unfortunately, we can't just help wondering that churches have really gone to an all time low, especially when the video games doesn't have the slightest bit to do with any gods. (Halo 3)
Of course religious video game don't fair very well, just look at Left Behind: Eternal Forces a game that requires the player to kill or convert every single person on the map to Christianity including the UN workers who are trying to "stop" the player. Naturally it would disgust anyone, but apparently not the game designers, they sent it to every soldier in Iraq, it is really no wonder why the Muslims there want to kill them so much.
As much as I would like to criticise popular culture, I would refrain from doing so and give some more examples in history. During the middle ages, whenever a good king arises, the church has no reservations about saying how fortunate that god had made him, but they will always distance themselves from poor kings, brainwashing sll the people along the way. One of the reasons why the English king founded the Anglican church is because the church stop giving into his demands and sing praises of him, and so he needed to make another so that people wouldn't turn against him. Of course the most popular example of this kind of holy favouritism comes in the form of Hitler. Being a charismatic anti-communist Catholic, the Vatican love to give him their full support in his rise to power. Even when he started invading Poland, the church was not willing to criticise him, thanks to him spreading Catholicism in Germany.
This is horribly outrageous, ideologies should be able to stand and fall based on themselves without requiring to lure people in by associating themselves with items of popular appeal, same goes with politics. The fact that they are turning to video games just show how desperate they are in trying to keep a hold on to their memberships. If this keeps up, in a few more years, churches will either have very low memberships, or divorce from religion all together and form a society for popular entertainment, or perhaps a mixture of both. Oh glorious technology, you have humiliated religion so much that pathetic houses of gods now need to pay homage to you!
With this I shall conclude with a message to religions from modern society, "Get secular or get lost! Just don't waste our time on any day of the week."
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"Of course religious video game don't fair very well, just look at Left Behind: Eternal Forces a game that requires the player to kill or convert every single person on the map to Christianity including the UN workers who are trying to "stop" the player."
Where the heck are you getting your information about the game from? It doesn't match reality. While the game does require you to convert people, it certainly doesn't require you to convert "every single person on the map." In the early missions, you definitely can't do that. Some later missions you can try, but your housing units (buildings you acquire and "remodel") limit how many characters you can have. It's probably impossible to be able to convert every person on the map - they number several dozens. And there is absolutely no killing of non-Christians who don't convert.
The "UN workers" aren't UN workers. They are soldiers for the Antichrist's Global Community Peacekeepers, which replaced the UN. The GCP are well-armed and "keep the peace" by shooting first and asking questions later.
I believe that the OP has made his point clearly enough on this issue.
The thought of video games being used as an evangelical tool is quite abhorrent to any right-thinking individual. Any video gamer worth the title would oppose the creation of such games.
Some people insist that video games cause a whole plethora of social ills, because they influence impressionable young minds negatively/encourage violence/reduce oppurtunities for social interaction[insert random excuse]. Why are the same people who decry games like Grand Theft Auto promoting games as tools to convert those mindless people out there into mindless Christians?
I think the answer should be obvious enough.
Well jason, what you said still doesn't make the game sound any better.
Still as dogmatic as ever, eh?
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