Allow me to elaborate.Įternal Forces is a 3D real time strategy title based on a series of books known as Left Behind. This is an impressive arsenal of protest, but it’s interesting that so few of these news blurbs actually state what it actually is, beyond “a computer game”. The list of organizations speaking out against it include the Council on Islamic-American Relations, the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, the Commission on Theology and Church Relations of the Lutheran Church, and an advocacy group known as Campaign to Defend the Constitution, which has been spearheading attempts to convince Wal-Mart to remove the game from its shelves, citing hate-propaganda as the reason why the family oriented retail giant should pull the product.
While I am a heathen, I am neither cold-hearted nor ignorant of the concepts that define this game.Īs I have previously mentioned, there is a better than good chance you’ve heard about Eternal Forces on the news.
I’m not trying to boast, the only reason I’m bringing this up is that I don’t want to seem as though I’m some cold-hearted, ignorant heathen throwing the first stone. Any half-decent pastor will be able to out-quote the Bible to me, but I have had more than my fair share of conversations with devout Christians who didn’t know anywhere near as much scriptural detail as I do. Many people believe that to be a contradiction in terms, but in this case it means that, although I do not postulate any one religious or philosophical dogma as “the one”, it also means I pay attention to all of them. That’s actually a good analogy for this release: a gory car wreck.īefore I get too much further in, I’d like to mention that I am a practicing Agnostic. Like a vehicular accident you happen to pass by on the bus, you cannot help but stare at the bloody and mangled carcass of passengers even as it physically nauseates you. By now I’m sure you’ve heard of this game, known as Left Behind: Eternal Forces, as it has been generating an intense amount of media interest due to its content. The subject of today’s review is a gnarled cancer of code that propagates murderously violent intolerance while cowering behind a thin veneer of Evangelical love. Throw in a heavy dose of barely-concealed hate and things start looking truly ugly. In my opinion, anyone willing to purposefully exploit negative attention in order to make a quick buck exemplifies bad taste tactless at best, contemptible at worst. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but there certainly is such a thing as bad taste.
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