Sarx

Remember that horrid video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces? You know, where Righteous Born Again™ Christians™ in the Endtimes™ had to run around and try to make people convert or else kill them?

Well… all the unsold copies of it are about to be sent to our Troups in Iraq!

Over at the Nation, using their normal ranty-style, Max Blumenthal reports that a Evangelism organisation is sending “care packages” to U.S. soldiers which include the game.

We send care packages to soldiers on the front lines of the war in Iraq. We call them “Freedom Packets” because the truth will set you free. Included in each “Freedom Packet” is:

• Greeting card
• 75 Minute Phone Card
• White Socks
• Baby Wipes (suggested by Col Oliver North)
• Gideon’s pocket size New Testament
• Extreme Sports “Livin It” Witnessing DVD
• “More than a Carpenter” book by Josh McDowell” Double printed in the Arabic language
• PC Game – Left Behind Game by Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins
• and an assortment of snacks.

We ship them to Iraq free of charge to soldiers. The approximate cost per package is $50. Two items – phone cards and shipping cost – account for approximately half that total amount. Most of the items were donated at no cost to support our troops. Your donation helps us send a clear message that God cares, including their mind, body and soul.

Source: Operation Straighten Up (GAG on that name!)

That Arabic book disturbs me: inviting the military to become evangelists… That material makes the US Military out to be *exactly* what Muslims say they are – a Christian Crusade. It makes our soldiers into defacto Christian Evangelists. If that material is found on them by their equivalent numbers from the Muslim world, they will be killed.

Sending the game, btw, is tasteless and tacky: men and women over in Iraq are living in a violent, military world. You don’t send them a violent, military game to help them relax! You might as well send them free copies of America’s Army.

(Props to FriendlyAtheist.)