Evangelical Video Games :: The Nation
I’m not a video game fan, but I am interested in the shift in the attraction the younger generation has to symbols and visual graphics – the milennial literacy. It is this kind of reading/literacy that is being tapped into by Operation Straight Up (OSU), a government-sponsored (aka: You’re paying for this), military support group.
Kill Or Convert, Brought To You By the Pentagon
By Max Blumenthal
The Nation
“The Pentagon endorses an End Times evangelical group that proselytizes among US troops, plans a ‘crusade’ to Iraq, and promotes a post-apocalyptic kill-or-convert video game.”
And who’s in the forefront of this promotional movement?
“Actor Stephen Baldwin, the youngest member of the famous Baldwin brothers, is no longer playing Pauly Shore’s sidekick in comedy masterpieces like Biodome. He has a much more serious calling these days…’In my position, I just don’t think I’m supposed to keep my faith to myself,’ Baldwin told a group of Texas Southern Baptists in 2004. ‘I’m just doing what the Lord’s telling me to do.'”
Read the rest: The Notion