Rick Warren's Video Game, Or Another Reason to Increase Terror Funding for New York

that's one saving grace, i guess.

As the San Francisco Chronicle puts it, the gaming industry is stereotypically perceived as "a gawky, geeky, hormonal juvenile delinquent who has an unhealthy fascination and mercenary interest in violence, combat, criminality, guns, porn, trolls, mutants, explosions and splatter." No doubt. But as we've demonstrated here time and again, gaming environments can be a staging ground for conveying humanitarian ideals, combatting corporate corruption, and learning about political conflict and peacemaking. They can even be an interactive approach to health and healing.

The image here comes from a game developed and designed by Ari Hollander as a tool to help phychotherapists treat patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from having witnessed or survived terrorist attacks.

Anecdotal evidence, [Skip] Rizzo and Hollander said, suggests that the therapy is helpful for some patients. New programs are introducing tell-tale aromas -- cordite, burning rubber, body odors -- to add to the sensation...Game developers, meanwhile, are preparing for other therapeutic possibilities [such as] games to address the effects of Alzheimer's disease -- potentially a $100 million market.

Rather cryptic there, Rick.

He got some sap from a succulent in his eyes while working in his garden, for fuck's sake.

Clearly a message from a higher power.

Was this game for real? Since when is Rick Warren an exponent of Christian dominionism? Man, my poor lost evangelical brother likes (or at least liked) this guy and he's fairly liberal.

everything I've read about this guy depicts him as having the same attitude towards christianity that ray kroc had towards burgers.

A church stays small when a pastor uses an outdated preaching STYLE.God called u for today's hearers,not 500 or 50 yrs ago. Sunday, July 04, 2010 3:29:52 PM via web

Rick Warren: who takes the Arena Rock approach to Christianity.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144403/uganda%27s_%22kill_the_gays%22_bill_tied_to_rick_warren_mentor/

Sigh. My big brother needs to pray for a spirit of discernment. Meanwhile, my sister goes to Uganda periodically and it wouldn't surprise me at all if she's involved with the psycho pastor mentioned in this article.

this might be a weird way to defend him, but I think people like RIck Warren could honestly be convinced by a marketing research to move towards the left, if the data shows that that's what people want out of a church experience.