Critical Miss: The GameChurch

[Aprilgold]

I'd give up being an atheist just to play with a bobble headed Jezus, I mean, LOOK AT HIM, HE SO CUTE!! =3
When will this be a pic that I can put as my steam gamertag, or even my forum name?

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Wait Wait Wait...so what happens if Jesus gets pissed at repeated cheap kills? Does he say God damnit? And if so is it cool if i say it? Are we not allowed to cuss? Because that would just make the whole thing kind of uncomfortable.

Mike: Oh god damnit! Fucker cheap shoted me again

Paul: Mike! Don't take the lords name in vain. Its a sin. (he says as he lands a skull shattering head shot)


I'm not saying religious types can't play games. I'm just saying that playing games with a religious group doesn't sound like fun. I'm comfortable with my spirituality. I don't need to be bought with promises of free beer and deathmatches.

 

[Aprilgold]

[double post, SORRY!]

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

Am I too late to make the obvious "Christ must love HALO" joke?? Or did someone beat me to it?

 

[Cain_Zeros]

What are the six levels of irony there? Let us count the ways.
1. Jesus playing videogames
2. A Theme park mascot playing videogames
3. Jesus as a theme park mascot
4. A church condoning videogames
5. Said church condoning Dead Rising
6. And the doozy, Said jesus-Theme-park-mascot playing Dead Rising 2 with a hilariously awkward partner.

Any others I missed?

Jesus was dead and came back to life. Dead Rising. See?

That was supposed to be #6, granted it doesn't come over as clearly as intended.

And then there's the fact that a religious group is giving out free beer.

 

[seiler88]

Sounds like a typical night with friends to us Presbyterians. Good to see the sane Believers get some face time!

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

FINALLY!
Big-headed irony jesus is something i've been dreaming of since i was about, well, 5 minutes ago...
But still nice to see that they're carrying through with the trippy game thing with the mice and stuff.

 

[tobi the good boy]

My god has no trouble with me playing Devil May Cry!!!

Don't see why he would. It's basically a modern retelling of the Divine Comedy.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I'd become Christian for free beer, as long as I didn't need to be conscious on Sundays

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Not only is it Jesus... but apparently it's headset-wearing Big Head Code [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105294-Secret-Big-Head-Mode-Unearthed-in-GoldenEye-007-Remake] Buddy Jesus.

Where do I sign? Quick, glasses-wearing goose, give me a pen!

 

[The Random One]

While I agree with their message - namely, God doesn't hate fun and it is possible to be deeply religious without shouting at people for their sins at every waking second - they may have been too forceful with a way to introduce a message to a mostly apathetic crowd. Still, I agree with the principle. And since one of the PA guys is actually devoutly religious (can't remember which one though) I'm not even surprised.

Critical Miss: The GameChurch
Video games. Beer. Jesus. What?

If you thought those things couldn't exist in the same sentence, think again.

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Nah, that's easy. See: 'Jesus, all the video games that came out this year suck so much I can't even start playing unless I drink all the beer in the house first!'

 

[Burningsok]

Yay! she brought the rat with her.

Yep, Jesus is definitely a gamer

 

[YuheJi]

It's interesting how people find something like this unusual. I mean, most of my friends that I play games with are people that I've met at church. And we talk about games at church. Not that we don't do regular churchy stuff too, of course.

 

[Madara XIII]

My god has no trouble with me playing Devil May Cry!!!

Don't see why he would. It's basically a modern retelling of the Divine Comedy.

Ummm not really. Sorry but I'm such a DMC nerd. The only reference they give to the Inferno is just Dante and Vergil. That's it. It's basically about Dante stopping his evil Bro from connecting the Human world and the Demon world to obtain their fathers power

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

See, I knew there was a reason my religion is cool XP

 

[Jubbert]

Ahem.

THAT.

Is FUCKING AWESOME.

 

[Toriver]

It's interesting how people find something like this unusual. I mean, most of my friends that I play games with are people that I've met at church. And we talk about games at church. Not that we don't do regular churchy stuff too, of course.

It's just that there are a few churches out there that make a big deal of violence in video games (NOTE: I did not say "video games" as a whole), and many gamers take that as a sign that God must hate gaming and run with it the other way, also pitting gaming against religion, but from the other side of it. So when those kinds of gamers see something like this, it can seem unusual to them. And then they'll also sit there and make fun of it like it's still somehow wrong.

Again, I say, seriously, guys, grow up.

 

[mesoforte]

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I don't know if I'd go endorsing them. 2 of the blog posts so far are setting off alarms. That's never a good sign.