Apparently, this Layman jackass at ChristianCadre has been spreading the good word of the Left Behind Eternal Forces game, and explaining on many blogs including Give Up blog how the game isn't about Christians murdering non-Christians who they fail to convert.

It turns out, however, that Talk2Action, who originally published the story of the sick fundie backstory of the game, was totally right. Layman made a bunch of claims that talk2action over-hyped the story and that no secular reviewers had come to similar conclusions after playing the game. Now several reviews have come out confirming Talk2Actions take on the game, which if you remember is as follows:

Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life.

You got to wonder about the fundies, why don't they understand you can't just make shit up on the intarweb? People figure it out, they expose the bullshit. It's the beauty of the system. I've now added Talk2action to my RSS feed and will keep track of it, as the fundies are kind of scary. Which reminds me, I read Ebert's website for reviews of movies and his Answerman column where he talks about movies and tries to answer questions about them for readers. Apparently, he expressed the view after seeing a movie about a psycho fundamentalist that there probably are fundies out there who are nice caring people and people shouldn't judge all fundies by the representation in this film. The response he got to this seemingly innocuous statement is pretty funny.

Q. Read your review of "Hate Crime" and disagree when you say the movie presents a portrait of fundamentalists that does not reflect many of them. I live in Dallas and I know very few Southern Baptists who do not think gays are going straight to hell. Unfortunately, this includes some members of my family. I sadly do not think that the Pastor Boyd character was overplayed.

Mike Schermer, Dallas

A. In my review, I wrote in part: "Yes, there are plenty of fundamentalists who believe homosexuals are on the highway to hell. But there are other fundamentalists, a great many more, I believe, who are gentle and humane, positive and well-meaning, and although I may disagree with many of their beliefs, well, there are a lot of religious beliefs in the world and most people disagree with most of them."

I received dozens of letters telling me this statement was naive, and not a single letter in support of it. Here is Elaine Wood of Louisville, Ky.: "Having been raised in that fundamentalist 'we're right and everyone else is wrong,' hate-mongering environment, I was subjected to ministers like the 'Pastor Boyd' character repeatedly -- until I refused to return to church when he tried to molest me as a teenager. This character is an accurate composite of many 'God-fearing' (as opposed to God-loving) tyrants. Are there less-lethal fundamentalists? Sure, but I've yet to encounter one who wasn't determined to 'fix' me, regardless of my spiritual beliefs, faith and church membership. I saw the movie not as a statement about homosexuality (what other people do in the privacy of their homes is none of my business), but as a wake-up call for reducing judgment, bigotry and intolerance."

Well, I think that's why we have talk2action, to keep track of their crazy bigotry and shennanigans like the SPLC's Hatewatch.