Petra
08-11-2007, 10:02 AM
Source (http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=220960)
:eek:
I don't know about youse guys, but I'm a bit concerned about this. What the hell happened to separation of church and state? Not to mention the whole 'UN (= liberals?) is eeeeevil' message in there. Scary shit.
With the endorsement of the Defense Department, OSU is mailing "Freedom Packages" (http://www.osutour.com/new.html#new4) to soldiers serving in Iraq. These are not your grandfather's care packages, however. Besides pairs of white socks and boxes of baby wipes (included at the apparent suggestion of Iran-Contra felon Oliver North, according to OSU) OSU's care packages contain the controversial Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game.
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The Left Behind videogame (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081601764.html?referrer=emailarticle) 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, (http://alternet.org/story/38873/) "Praise the Lord!"
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Even Marvin Olasky, the evangelical publisher, intellectual author of "compassionate conservatism," and a force behind the George W. Bush Administration's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives," denounced (http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/026090.html) the Left Behind videogame. In a blog post on the website of his World Magazine, Olasky described the game's content as akin to "the way homicidal Muslims think."
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OSU has cultivated support from the Department of Defense for years....
I'm horrified, quite frankly.
:eek:
I don't know about youse guys, but I'm a bit concerned about this. What the hell happened to separation of church and state? Not to mention the whole 'UN (= liberals?) is eeeeevil' message in there. Scary shit.
With the endorsement of the Defense Department, OSU is mailing "Freedom Packages" (http://www.osutour.com/new.html#new4) to soldiers serving in Iraq. These are not your grandfather's care packages, however. Besides pairs of white socks and boxes of baby wipes (included at the apparent suggestion of Iran-Contra felon Oliver North, according to OSU) OSU's care packages contain the controversial Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game.
.....
The Left Behind videogame (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081601764.html?referrer=emailarticle) 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, (http://alternet.org/story/38873/) "Praise the Lord!"
....
Even Marvin Olasky, the evangelical publisher, intellectual author of "compassionate conservatism," and a force behind the George W. Bush Administration's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives," denounced (http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/026090.html) the Left Behind videogame. In a blog post on the website of his World Magazine, Olasky described the game's content as akin to "the way homicidal Muslims think."
......
OSU has cultivated support from the Department of Defense for years....
I'm horrified, quite frankly.