Friday, August 10, 2007

Is it a good idea to send our soldiers in Iraq video games that promote the killing of UN peacekeepers? The Department of Defense thinks so.

As an official arm of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, OSU plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces to soldiers serving in Iraq. OSU is also scheduled to embark on a "Military Crusade in Iraq" in the near future.

"We feel the forces of heaven have encouraged us to perform multiple crusades that will sweep through this war torn region," OSU declares on its website about its planned trip to Iraq. "We'll hold the only religious crusade of its size in the dangerous land of Iraq."

If you are unaware of just what kind of militant Christian propaganda is promoted by this "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" then please read on.

The Left Behind videogame is a real-time strategy game that makes players commanders of a virtual evangelical army in a post-apocalyptic landscape that looks strikingly like New York City after 9/11. With tanks, helicopters and a fearsome arsenal of automatic weapons at their disposal, Left Behind players wage a violent war against United Nations-like peacekeepers who, according to LaHaye's interpretation of Revelation, represent the armies of the Antichrist. Each time a Left Behind player kills a UN soldier, their virtual character exclaims, "Praise the Lord!" To win the game, players must kill or convert all the non-believers left behind after the rapture. They also have the option of reversing roles and commanding the forces of the Antichrist.

So the message that is being drilled into our soldiers serving in a Muslim country is that all who are not Christians are servants of Satan and must be either converted or killed. And this is not only condoned by our Pentagon, it is endorsed by them.

We...are....truly...fucked!

1 comment:

Don't feed the trolls!
It just goes directly to their thighs.