U. S. troops in Iraq fill up a lot of their off hours playing video games. Now they'll have the opportunity to blow away infidels and UN troops working for the Antichrist in the controversial video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces.
And each time their virtual character makes a kill, he exclaims, "Praise the Lord!"
Operation Straight Up, sort of a Christian USO-type troupe with celebrities like Stephen Baldwin, Evander Holyfield and Rebecca St. James, is including the game in "Freedom Packages" it's mailing to soldiers serving in Iraq, according to Max Blumenthal's blog in The Nation.
"The game is inspired by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins' bestselling pulp fiction series about a blood-soaked Battle of Armageddon pitting born-again Christians against anybody who does not adhere to their particular theology. In LaHaye's and Jenkins' books, the non-believers are ultimately condemned to 'everlasting punishment' while the evangelicals are 'raptured' up to heaven."The blog notes, "OSU is the IED that exploded the wall separating church and state in the Pentagon and throughout our military."
But you know the one feature I actually like about the game? You can choose to be the Antichrist.... just like in real life.
UPDATE: Group Scraps `Left Behind' Video Games for U.S. Troops
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