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“It is unprecedented, and to date unheralded by the mainstream media. But it is happening. It is sparking, sputtering, glowing and growing like a prairie fire. There is a growing movement among conservative and progressive Christians alike to boycott Tyndale House, the Christian publishing house that publishes the Living Bible and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind novels and also licenses the controversial videogame Left Behind: Eternal Forces, along with any chain stores or megachurches that plan to distribute the game. . . . At its dark heart, Left Behind: Eternal Forces is an anti-Christian game, a ravenous wolf posturing in sheep’s clothing.”
Hutson has been doing for this not-yet-released game what the Reader’s Ben Joravsky is doing for TIF districts in Chicago: hammering away. (Hutson’s research and advocacy is not acknowledged in this Washington Post story on the controversy.) Hutson next promises a story about “a conservative Christian news distributor that started out to disprove Talk to Action’s charges about Left Behind: Eternal Forces–and after playing the game, concluded that Talk to Action’s series is accurate, and the game is unChristian.”
