There’s a detailed rebuttal of “Layman’s” assertions on Talk To Action.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/6/9/32014/83270

Excerpt:

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Layman repeatedly states on Wikipedia that his core concern is Talk to Action’s report that the Christian militia - called the Tribulation Force in the Left Behind novels, graphic novels, and video game—uses the power of prayer and modern military weapons to conduct physical and spiritual warfare, which means converting or killing New Yorkers.

“It is inaccurate, untrue, not factual, to say the game calls for people to `convert or kill.’ That’s simply anti-Christian propoganda [sic],” writes Layman. “The secular reviews by people who have played the game completely contradict the nonsense espoused by Talk2Action.”

Enough. Let’s go fishing for facts - in the very waters where Layman claims to have caught his “whopper”. Let’s see if we can catch a real whopper. Layman has searched Technorati.com (a web site that aggregates information about blogs) for days, he says, posting on dozens of blogs that Talk to Action has spread inaccurate information, and this is his key contention, his claim to fame. Layman thought he hooked the big one, and he’s bragged to everyone about it for days. Let’s see what kind of whopper he really reeled into the Christian Cadre boat.

Layman asked for reviews by credible people who have actually played Left Behind: Eternal Forces, and which document the “convert or kill” claim. Here are two.”

But, I’m a visual thinker - the issue seemed fairly cut and dry simply from the promotional images of the game as it’s being played that were released by the game’s makers :

But, I’m a visual thinker - the issue seemed fairly cut and dry to me simply from the promotional images of the game as it’s being played that were released by the game’s makers :

Those image appear to depict paramilitary forces firing close range at civilians, and civilians dropping to the ground - apparently from being shot.

Here’s a collection of images:

http://www.talk2action.org/comments/2006/6/7/41835/378 29/5#5

The report from Talk2Action was very inaccurate.  The game does not have the player try to establish a theocracy or kill people who don’t convert.  In fact, you are penalized for killing people, even though Christian forces are fighting against the anti-Christ’s army. 

See more about the nature of the game, with quotes from secular reviewers who have actually played it:

http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2006/06/truth-about -left-behind-video-game.html

“If those are the people being saved, Leave Me Behind.”

It almost makes you want to believe in the Rapture. Just think - in one fell swoop, all those fundamentalists would be gone, all of them - no matter what mistaken belief they hold, and taken somewhere they can wreak havoc on each other.

Then the rest of us can get to work and clean up the mess, always easier if someone isn’t destroying stuff twice as fast as you can fix it.

No more McMansions, SUV’s, filthy power plants, weapons factories, or polluting industries.

Sounds heavenly!

These people place the most value on the Book of Revelation, in which Jesus can be compared to a type of spiritual warlord.

I don’t really know how this rubbish is going end, but due to the fact that Jesus is never coming back, we have the potential for the delusion of his imminent return to go for hundreds of years.

This era might be the last one where a large amount of people believe that occurence is nigh. A large amount expect to see the ‘Rapture’ in their lifetime, and when that doesn’t happen, we can only hope their children won’t carry on the same futile hope.

Gives a whole new sinister flavor to the old hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers”, that’s for sure…

Mr. LaHaye’s goal is to “no one left behind”? “No one left alive” seems closer to the truth, by the looks of it. Is THIS what modern Christians genuinely believe Jesus would advocate if He were here today, the man who is called the Prince Of Peace? Is the deity whom the makers of this so-called “game” claim to follow the same man who instructed us to love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves? To only treat other people the way we would wish them to treat us? To love the sinner even though we may hate the sin? To turn the other cheek and forgive those who hurt us? Is the man who supposedly inspired this so-called “game” the same one who warned us that whatever injury we inflict upon another person, He counts as an injury inflicted upon Him?? Perhaps it’s just my imagination, but I seem to recall a passage in the New Testament in which Jesus was quoted as saying that those who live by the sword shall die by the sword. Is that considered to be heretical text now?

Anyone who thinks that Jesus would even remotely approve of this or feel anything but sadness over being associated with this has so many screws loose that they must surely rattle when they walk. In my opinion, the makers of this so-called “game” would be well advised to reflect very seriously on just Who it is they’ve been listening to—because it is most definitely NOT the man depicted in the Gospels.  This game not only has nothing in common with true Christian principles as taught by Jesus—it desecrates them, because it not only depicts but glorifies the complete antithesis of those beliefs. Is it merely a coincidence that this so-called “game” is set in New York City, the residence of many people who do not share these conservative Christian beliefs and hence is a place considered by some to be the Babylon of the Western Hemisphere? (LIBERALS ‘N ATHEISTS ‘N GAYS, OH MY!!!!) Any and all true Christians of good conscience—for that matter, any Americans in general who remember that our Founding Fathers never intended America to be a theocracy—should be utterly appalled.