{"id":3136,"date":"2007-08-16T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/dod-stops-plan-to-send-christi.html"},"modified":"2007-08-16T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:15:00","slug":"dod-stops-plan-to-send-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/dod-stops-plan-to-send-christi.html","title":{"rendered":"DOD Stops Plan to Send Christian Video Game to Troops in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the atheists can relax now, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2007\/08\/dod-stops-plan-.html\">they aren&#8217;t sending the Left Behind game to Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plans by a Christian group to send an evangelical video game to U.S. troops in Iraq were abruptly halted yesterday by the Department of Defense after ABC News inquired about the program.<br \/>\nOperation Start Up (OSU) Tour, an evangelical entertainment troupe that actively proselytizes among soldiers, will not be sending the &#8220;apocryphal&#8221; video game in care packages as planned, according to the department.<br \/>\n&#8220;Left Behind: Eternal Forces&#8221; was inspired by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins&#8217; best-selling book series about the battle of Armageddon, in which believers of Jesus Christ fight the Antichrist.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nTroy Lyndon, the producer of the game, said the game&#8217;s &#8220;warfare&#8221; is not violent, and that it emphasizes &#8220;spiritual battles&#8221; over fighting with guns. The game gives incentives to recruit believers instead of killing the forces of the Antichrist, according to Lyndon.<br \/>\nLyndon added, &#8220;There is no forcible conversion to Christianity, and killing is never an objective in any of the 40 missions in the game.&#8221;<br \/>\nA team of researchers at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation discovered OSU Tour&#8217;s plan to send the game to Iraq, and their discovery was first reported by Max Blumenthal in The Nation last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the atheists can relax now, they aren&#8217;t sending the Left Behind game to Iraq: Plans by a Christian group to send an evangelical video game to U.S. troops in Iraq were abruptly halted yesterday by the Department of Defense after ABC News inquired about the program. 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