Spirit Points

Wow. Too bad spirit points can’t bring the dead back to life, huh? Bush has so many “spirit points” to make up – he better be praying a lot. Praying not to be impeached, go to jail, be brought up on war crimes charges, etc, etc….

Pharyngula

Here’s another article on that freaky Left Behind video game. The rationalizations for the ability to kill people violently in the game are fascinating.

Left Behind Games’ president, Jeffrey Frichner, says the game actually is pacifist because players lose “spirit points” every time they gun down nonbelievers rather than convert them. They can earn spirit points again by having their character pray.

Isn’t the most wonderful version of pacifism ever? Go out, butcher a few people, engage in a warlike campaign…and as long as you beg an invisible man’s forgiveness afterwards, you can still call yourself a pacifist. With that kind of reasoning, Ted Haggard is a heterosexual, Bill Bennett is a cautious investor, and Ted Nugent is an environmentalist. No wonder Christianity is popular among hypocrites.

Tags:

No Responses

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *