The Purpose Driven Life Takers

"This game immerses children in present-day New York City -- 500 square blocks, stretching from Wall Street to Chinatown, Greenwich Village, the United Nations headquarters, and Harlem. The game rewards children for how effectively they role play the killing of those who resist becoming a born again Christian. The game also offers players the opportunity to switch sides and fight for the army of the AntiChrist, releasing cloven-hoofed demons who feast on conservative Christians and their panicked proselytes (who taste a lot like Christian)."

The folks at Left Behind Games produce some very interesting material, which might be of some help in better understanding what this new game--I can hardly wait for it to become available--is REALLY all about. For example, they produce a very good book called Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days. Here's a synopsis:

Passengers aboard a Boeing 747 en route to Europe disappear. Instantly. Nothing remains except their rumpled piles of clothes, jewelry, fillings, surgical pins, and the like.

Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control. People are terror-stricken as loved ones vanish before their eyes.

Some blame space aliens. Others claim a freak of nature. Still others say it was a high-tech military attack by a world conqueror.

But airline captain Rayford Steele's wife had warned him of this very event. If Irene Steele was right, both she and their young son have disappeared. What about their older daughter? Lake Rayford, Chloe had been skeptical.

In the midst of global chaos, Rayford must search for his family, for answers, for truth. As devastating as the disappearances have been, the darkest days may lie ahead.

Terror and chaos continues worldwide as the cataclysm unfolds. For those left behind, the apocalypse has just begun.

In this moving novel, Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye offer an account of what life might be like for those left behind when millions vanish. Left Behind will intrigue you, entertain you, and challenge you. And when you realize it represents an event that millions believe will actually occur, it could change your life.

On the Left Behind Games website www.leftbehindgames.com there's also a review of the book:

Reviews
"I had my doubts about this book when I first picked it up two days ago. After all the hype on the book and the movie I did not want to jump in on the band-wagon. But after I began the book I literally could not put it down. This book was excellent and I have already begun the second. I am now a full-fledged Left Behind series reader. May God bless the readers and writers of this wonderful series."
anonymous

"This is the most successful Christian-fiction series ever."
Publishers Weekly

No need to wait, Valley of Weeping.....

"Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life."

Pretty obvious what the game is all about.

Fans of the Left Behind series might enjoy taking this multiple-choice quiz that can be found at Beliefnet (www.beliefnet.com):

Q1. Which Bible chapters predicting an attack on Israel by a "great army from the north" is an inspiration for "Left Behind"?
1. Ezekiel I 38 and 39
2. Revelation 2 and 7
3. Armageddon 7 & 13

Q2. "Left Behind" is based on which non-fiction book?
1. "Valley of the Dolls"
2. "The Message"
3. "The Late Great Planet Earth"

Q3. Which does the evangelist John not give as a characteristic of the Antichrist?
1. He denies the incarnation of Christ
2. He is a liar
3. He bears a "666" on his forehead
4. He denies the Father

Q4. Who plays journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams in the movie version of "Left Behind"?
1. Brad Johnson
2. Kirk Cameron
3. Rayford Steele
4. Michael York

Q5. What do the rebels against the Global Community called themselves?
1. The Global Commandos
2. The Nazarenes
3. The Tribulation Force
4. The Remnant

Q6. What is Chaim Rosenzweig's astounding invention?
1. Bullets that cause deep sleep, not death
2. Fertilizer that allows wheat to grow in the desert
3. A missile-defense shield
4. The Hula Hoop

Q7. In which country does Nicolae Carpathia first rise to power?
1. Morocco
2. Hungary
3. Romania
4. Tajikistan

Q8. According to the Left Behind series, what is the mark of the beast?
1. An 'X' on the forehead
2. A rash on the arm that forms a '666'
3. A microchip implanted under the skin
4. Stunted horns breaking through the scalp

Q9. Which two people become related by marriage?
1. Bruce Barnes and Chloe Steele
2. Tsion Ben-Judah and Hattie
3. Buck Cameron and Rayford Steele
4. Buck Cameron and Nicholae Carpathia

Q10. Before he joined the Tribulation Force, Tsion Ben-Judah was...
1. an angel
2. a deli clerk
3. a pilot
4. a rabbi

Q11. Which city must be restored before the Second Coming, according to the Left Behind books?
1. Rome
2. Babylon
3. New York
4. Jerusalem
5. Nazareth

Q12. In the Bible, how long is the period of tribulation that begins with the Rapture?
1. 3 weeks
2. 3 years
3. 5 years
4. 7 years

Q13. Nicolae Carpathia built New Babylon as the new capital of the world. In which country is New Babylon located?
1. Iran
2. Israel
3. Iraq
4. Egypt

Q14. Hattie Durham went to work for Nicolae Carpathia in his new administration in what role?
1. Flight attendant on Global Community One, Carpathia's official air transport.
2. Carpathia's personal assistant
3. Carpathia's PR maven
4. Chief liaison with the United Nations

Spamming threads with off-topic material in an attempt to discourage posters from posting here on-topic is the kind of tactic one would expect from a dominionist.

Create your own thread, asswipe.

Rogers, deletions will be appreciated.

The answers to the questions in that quiz (reproduced above) should help readers understand some of the underpinnings of the game that is the subject of this thread.

If you're still taking the quiz (or plan on taking it), BE WARNED: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

ANSWERS

1. Ezekiel
2. "The Late Great Planet Earth"
3. He denies the Father
4. Kirk Cameron
5. The Triblation Force
6. Fertilizer that allows wheat to grow in the desert
7. Romania
8. A microchip implanted under his skin
9. Buck Cameron and Rayford Steele
10. A rabbi
11. Babylon
12. 7 years
13. Iraq
14. Chief liason with the United Nations

This is not spam. It is material realted to the game referenced above as the subject of the post. And it is presented for the express purpose of providing source material and explanatory text for patrons of the DR.

"The answers to the questions in that quiz (reproduced above) should help readers understand some of the underpinnings of the game that is the subject of this thread."

That is not the purpose of your posts, liar.

Guess I was right, dominionists will lie, maybe even kill, to acheive their means.

How utilitarian of you.

This is not spam. It is material realted to the game referenced above as the subject of the post. And it is presented for the express purpose of providing source material and explanatory text for patrons of the DR.

When people try to pass off their malice as innocence they end up looking stupid instead.

*Anyway* this does look like a cool game. I'll have to query my Xtian friends to see what they think of it. Probably they will want there to be a version where you can't play on the "antichrist team."

Stupid is as stupid does, lol!

Malevolence in Christ's name is blasphemy.

The "anti-christ team" option is thrown in to justify the main purpose, that is; indoctrinate and desensitize youth to violence in the name of Christ.

Allah would be proud!

The other purpose of the game, of course, is as a cash cow to fund other Christocracy strategies.

These people are pretty much tired of waiting on God and want to establish their own version of heaven on earth by controlling the US government.

"What are we going to do tonight, Brain?"

"Same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try and take over the world!!"

Some people actually wonder why God's people are paying attention to the arrival of the End Times.

It's predicted, that's why.

And that means, it will happen. At a time of God's choosing. We can only prepare ourselves. And that's why www.raptureready.com maintains an up-to-date Rapture Index!

Currently the Rapture Index is at 156, a net change of +1. Here's what that number means:

Rapture Index of 85 and Below:
Slow prophetic activity

Rapture Index of 85 to 110:
Moderate prophetic activity

Rapture Index of 110 to 145:
Heavy prophetic activity

Rapture Index above 145:
Fasten your seat belts

Sure, there are games that can deal with this. But this is, in the end---quite literally in the end---NOT A GAME.

"In "The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation" published this month however, Barbara Rossing the books author joins the voices of warning, and offers an alternative perspective for the public debate.

Rossing, an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America with degrees from Harvard University Divinity School and Yale University Divinity School, boldly debunks the Left Behind series and makes the case for reclaiming Christianity from the "destructive", rapture interpretation of the Book of Revelation.

Rossing contends that the Left Behind novels dangerously distort Christian ideas - and not just that they are disingenuous but that they are "flat out wrong".

In a challenge to Christian Zionists she also suggests that there is neither "rapture" of Christians off the earth, nor that Revelation predicts a seven-year tribulation culminating in war in Israel and the Middle East.

Rossing suggests that many of today's "end-times writings" draw on a method of looking at prophesy that was invented less than two hundred years ago but now holds a dominant American view.

Rapture enthusiasts extol a careless, abusive attitude toward God's created world, says the author who teaches New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, since rapture theology declares that the followers of Christ are soon to be removed from it."

Of course, with that much edu-macation, what could she possibly know?

www.ekklesia.co.uk

"Millennial Christians have somehow convinced themselves that the founding fathers would have approved of all this because they were all old-time Christians following that old-time religion.

Because Rapture theology was mostly cobbled together in the 19th century based on very selective readings from parts of the New Testament, it is unlikely that the founding fathers believed anything of the sort. Not important: Once again, I'm indulging in reality-based thinking.

Like the prophet said: Fasten your seat belts.

The thing about the Rapture Index is this: If you're part of the problem, you're part of the solution, because it's no good smiting sinners if there are no sinners to smite."

www.commondreams.org

"Rapture theology relies on an interpretation of the passage in St. Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians where he says that when Christ comes a second time "the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air."

The word "rapture" comes from the Latin verb "rapere," which was used in St. Jerome's Latin translation of that passage to express the notion of the just being "caught up" with the Lord.

But as Donahue and the author of another article, theologian Paul Thigpen, pointed out, rapture theology ends up teaching about a third coming of Christ -- first in his birth in Bethlehem, second in his secret coming to snatch away the just before the tribulations of the end time, and third at the end of the world to reign in glory.

Catholic and mainstream Christian teaching holds that when Christ comes in glory at the end of this age it will be his second coming, not his third.

Donahue commented, "A 'second chance' at salvation (for those not taken up in the second coming) is not biblical. ... We will all, at the same time, receive the final judgment -- Mt 13:37-43. The postrapture, prejudgment scenario in the 'Left Behind' books borders on Pelagianism because characters seem to be working to redeem themselves." An early heresy in Christianity, Pelagianism held that grace depended on human initiative, not on God's initiative."

www.catholicnews.com

Gee, this creating a thread and then making all the posts is fun!

I see why you guys do it all the time, lol!

The Birth Of The Pretribulation Doctrine In The 1800s

"The pieces Irving put together for the beginnings of the Pretribulation doctrine came from Ribera, Bellarmine, Lacunza - all Jesuits - and Margaret Macdonald's vision.

Most damaging was Macdonald's vision, which was based on an occult experience that injected into the Church a Secret Coming of Jesus for the Church. From the Middle Ages on, many would fall for the false hope of this pieced together doctrine."

www.velocity.net

"Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life.

You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians."

Fun for all the boys and girls!!

WHERE'D ya go NiceValley?

Rapture get ya?

ROFLMAO!!

He's having a snit because you interrupted his spam/sermon

Or was that Salmon sperm?

The Despoiling of America

How George W. Bush became the head of the new
American Dominionist Church/State
by Katherine Yurica

Most Americans have been aware that religious right
Republicans have become extremely active politically
in the last twenty years. But because we're Americans
and we're mostly tolerant of other people's religious
beliefs, their rise to power hasn't really troubled us.
We should be troubled. There is now overwhelming
evidence that conservative Christians set out to
takeover the government of the United States and impose
their culture and values upon all Americans. This
article is not a theory--it is factual and historic.

www.yuricareport.com

The Crusaders
Christian evangelicals are plotting to remake America in their own image

www.rollingstone.com

DOMINIONISM

(A.K.A. CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISM, DOMINION THEOLOGY, AND THEONOMY)

www.religioustolerance.org

Christian nationalists believe in a revisionist history, which holds that the founders were devout Christians who never intended to create a secular republic; separation of church and state, according to this history, is a fraud perpetrated by God-hating subversives. One of the foremost Christian revisionist historians is David Barton, who , in addition to running an organization called Wallbuilders that disseminates Christian nationalist books, tracts and videos, is also the vice-chairman of the Texas Republican Party. The goal of Christian nationalist politics is the restoration of the imagined Christian nation. As George Grant, former executive director of D. James Kennedy's influential Coral Ridge Ministries, wrote in his book "The Changing of the Guard:"
"Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.
But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice.
It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.
It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish."

www.talk2action.org

This game sounds like what ALEX JONES and his Remnant Saints Inter-Continental Congress are dreaming of

"Toward the Establishment of the Government of God on Earth a one world theocracy"

- Established December 31, 2001 - ALEX JONES founding member

www.rsicc.org

I can't wait for the multiplayer part of the game where you can join the Anti-Christ's army and go hunt Christians. WOO HOO!!

I'm looking forward to the expansion pack where you get to slaughter medidating Buddhists.

Or the "Empire Strikes Back" mod where you discover that Jesus is really the Devil's son and Obi Won lied to Jesus all along.

"Join me and together we can rule the galaxy"

The Crusader Cowboy mod let's you bomb heathens wherever they exist in the world. Even your own neighborhood!

($29.95 for the "Shotgun" Cheney tamed Jewish Ranch Release shooter mod)

dominionist = retard