Talk To Action contributor Jonathan Hutson's two part series on the new "Left Behind : Eternal Forces" video game "The Purpose Driven Life Takers" series ( read the series : part 1, part 2 ) has provoked widespread controversy and discussion as well as approaching 100,000 visits to this website. Here is the spoken narratives, and images, from the promotional trailer for the game ( note : trailer is accompanied by an ominious, dramatic symphonic score )

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Narrative and Images From "Left Behind: Eternal Forces"

"Throughout history, men and women have chosen one of three paths : Those  who daily seek a personal relationship with God, unbelievers and believers who don't seek after God and those who choose to ignore God. And as the prophets foretold, God will come to take his people home...No one knows the day or the hour. Without any warning, all infants, children, and many people myseriously disappear....Terror and confusion reign the world over. For those left behind, the apocalypse has just begun..."

Note the jarring contrast between frame #1, which seem to claim divine mandate for the narrative, and the final two frames - promotional images from the game being played, released by "Left Behind Games" - in which New Yorkers are gunned down in the streets and corpses pile up. Frame #2 seems to invoke revisionist claims of the Christian right that the United States was founded as a Christian nation rather than a secular nation. The top right frame - a busy New York City street - is accompanied by the narrative "unbelievers and believers who don't seek after God". Frame number four : "No one knows the day or the hour" ( of the "Rapture" ). One notable point about the images is that the trailer does not show any of the images from the game as it being played ( the last two frames). According to the Left Behind Games website the company seeks to offer "a less graphic experience to the sexual themes and gratuitous violence currently found in many titles." and hopes that its games will receive an "E" rating ( suitable for ages 6 and up )