Journal Keith Russell's Journal: GTA: The San Andreas Inquisition?
So I hit HuffPo for my daily dose of hysterical left-wing blogging, and I find this story. They linked to Crooks and Liars, who linked to the original entry on Talk To Action.
Long story short... It's a real-time strategy game, based on the Left Behind books, that takes the old Eddie Izzard "Cake or death?" gag to a whole new level. Get this.
The player controls some sort of holy commando, tasked with prosetlyzing as many NYC denizens as possible. Anyone who doesn't convert is to be executed with extreme prejudice. Jews, Muslims, Catholics, gays, anyone who believes in the Constitutional segregation of church and state... they're all fair game for your arsenal of destruction. Or, you can play as the Anti-Christ, out to reap as many True Believers as you can.
The blog's author follows the money to some right-wing fundamentalist types. Never mind the Gospels: Have any of those people ever read past Leviticus?
Here's where the ice-pick-in-my-ear cognitive dissonance comes in: I agree with Jack Thompson.
Just on this game, of course. I haven't gone 'round the bend completely.
JT sees through the hypocricy of it all. How can people who regularly decry the levels of violence in video games possibly support it in this game, just because it's in the name of a vengeful, Old Testament God? He left his old publisher over this game, because they also publish the Left Behind series, and he's incensed that they've supported such rubbish.
Unfortunately, he's found a new publisher.
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