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Christian Video Game Allows Players to Smite If They Have Faith
Posted by Pile
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 Catechumen is a first person action/adventure Christian game where your goal is to defeat the forces of evil, descending deeper into the depths of the Earth and rescue your captured brethren.
Kind of ironic that smiting people causes your faith to drain and you need more faith to go on to more smiting.
No word if the level bosses are ACLU members, PETA, Democrats or Activist Judges. |
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Choose from eight powerful spiritual weapons. Each weapon has its own unique use. Maximize your firepower by learning each weapon’s abilities. Find the lightning sword, the drill sword, the explosive staff and more.
Encounter Satan’s minions and banish them back to their evil realm. Evil lurks everywhere you turn. With your Sword of the Spirit in hand, you must confront the demons head on and show them nothing can overcome the power of the Holy Spirit.
Restore your spiritual health by finding scrolls containing God’s Word. In Catechumen, you survive by faith. When your faith gets too low, pick up the many scrolls scattered across the lands to renew your faith and continue your journey.
Descend deeper and deeper into the depths of the underworld. Your journey will take you into the very heart of evil, through 18 hand-crafted, highly detailed levels. Each level you visit is unique and each has its secrets you must uncover.
N'Lightning Software's Christian Game: Catechumen
Rescue your captured Christian brethren. Your mentor and some of his flock have been taken hostage by the evil Roman Empire, controlled by Satan himself. The forces of evil and darkness will claim a great victory if he does not survive! Take up this quest and fight for the Lord!
If all else fails, you can Battle other forces as the amazing FSM |
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Christmas Sources
Posted by Stan A on 2005-12-25 20:33:58 | The Marketing of Christmas - By Robert Rose
I don't know about you, but the holidays really snuck up on me this year. I need about three more months before I'll be ready to deal with Christmas. In fact, I think this year I'm not going to celebrate Christmas until ... oh, March 25.
Indeed, an argument could be made that everybody celebrates this holiday three months earlier than they should. While serious scholars will debate the exact date of Christ's birth, they appear to be universally convinced it was not December 25. By all appearances, the very idea of Christmas was nothing more than a marketing tool--a tradition carried on by many Americans to this day.
Lest this idea upset you, consider what it says in the King James Bible. Luke 2:7 and 2:8 clearly state: "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night."
Those shepherds who were watching their flocks by night only did so during spring lambing season. Wintertime nights usually found the animals left untended in their corral.
It's tempting to ignore this evidence, until you consider that Conception Day is celebrated at the end of June. Since we've always been told Christ had a natural birth, his birth would have taken place nine months later--at the end of March. Of course, since Christ's divinity was the focus of the message being spread about him, discussion of the particulars relating to his natural birth would have been minimized.
Next add in the fact that 2,000 years ago, and 200 years after that, nobody cared when someone was born. Society put much more focus on tracking the date someone died, and for that reason alone, recollections of the date of Christ's death would be infinitely more accurate than that of his birth.
Of course, none of this matters to us today, right? In fact, none of this mattered to the Christian Church in 274 AD, either. Church leaders were concerned with the continued existence of the church, which was threatened by two competing religions. Starting around 75 BC, December 25 had been the official celebration of Natalis Solis Invicti--the birthday of the sun god Mithras. Celebrated by pagan Romans--the majority of the population--Mithraism was later joined as the year-end bacchanal by Saturnalia, a celebration of the Roman agriculture god Saturn. By the mid-third century, these two well-entrenched religions with their parties, feasts, parades and the giving of gifts threatened to put Christianity out of business.
To counter the competition's argument, Christian church leaders determined to offer their own year-end ritual. Viewing the pagan debauchery at their doors, the followers of Christ chose instead to offer a somber observance of the birth of Christ. They chose December 25 for their celebration in one of the earliest examples of head-to-head marketing of a rival brand. Rather than parties and feasting, the Christian celebration would be a more conservative affair. Church leaders began to promote a mass: Christ's Mass.
Or, as we now call it: Christmas.
The appeal of this sales promotion helped stabilize the membership of the church, and proved an adequate incentive for potential followers over the next 61 years and beyond. This message was further aided in 337 AD by the public relations coup of Roman Emperor Constantine's public baptism, and later, Bishop Liberius' emphasis of the importance of Christ's birth as well as his death.
Now it's true--Santa Claus, mistletoe and Jimmy Stewart weren't added into the mix until later, being hung onto the holiday like so many ornaments on a Christmas tree. And the holiday itself has changed dramatically from those first shaky days until today when it is a worldwide celebration that includes parties, feasts, parades and the giving of gifts. Few people today have ever heard of Mithraism or Saturnalia; fewer still practice it.
But the evidence of the birth of Christmas and its place in today's society is both overwhelming and irrefutable. Christmas was invented as a marketing tool, and became a religious observation second--not the other way around. If you're a purist who is truly interested in celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, I would suggest you wait about three months.
Oh yes--feel free to celebrate the New Year when you normally would. And whether you believe me or not, have a happy holiday. |
are you serious
Posted by concerned dude on 2005-12-30 15:15:08 | | i dont think i really have to say anything about this one. although its intentions are good and wholesome the overall idea of it is just stupid. im not sure a full hearted christian will even waste their indisposable time on this. oh and somebody shoot the guy who actually thought it was cool. |
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