‘Tis the season to kill all unbelievers
Thursday, December 14th, 2006Left Behind: Eternal Forces is something different: a right-wing Christian violent video game. Not something you see every day. Based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Revelation, the game pits players against the Antichrist’s team. You convert the enemy characters to Jesus, or kill them. There’s a good deal of killing.
You can choose to play for the Antichrist’s team, but that team cannot win.
The Antichrist is of course a fictional Secretary General of the U.N. His team includes fictional rock stars and anyone with a Muslim-sounding name. The game’s publishers piously insist they are not fomenting hatred against Muslims, which is about as convincing as George Bush saying his “crusade” isn’t anti-Islam either.
