This is ridiculous! What about all of the non-Christians in our military?? How terrible!

What would the DoD do if the American Arab Anti-Discrimination group wanted to send our troops a game based on Muslims defending Mecca??

Religion breeds hate.

DO SOME REAL INVESTIGATING PLEASE..UNLESS I JUST MISED IT, SHOWING US SAMPLE CLIPS OF THE GAME YOU REFERENCE WOULD BE HELPFUL MR WORDSMITH

A Christian war game. I'm sure God would approve. I guess you evangelicals haven't figured out yet that America is tired of you. You are not going to take over the US government. You are hypocrits, and we have seen with our own eyes what faith based leadership inspires. Intolerance, violence, bigotry, and death. However killing in the name of God is acceptable, apparently. You born agains need to get a life, just not mine.

Thank God this game didn't get sent over. I agree this wouldn't be right for the non-Christians in Iraq. What sticks out more in my mind is...isn't it scary to think that our troops really have time to play video games while they are trying to defend our nation?

This is a sad and serious situation. One's personal beliefs are one's own and there's no room for proselytizing under the circumstances of war, especially a war full of misinterpretations, religious and otherwise.

Each and every member of our military brings his and her own belief systems with them, and for forcing something such as this in the form of a video game in a "Care Package" seems to me to be against principle altogether.

I am a very conservative Christian, and the last thing I want our troops to be is "rapture ready"...

""What would the DoD do if the American Arab Anti-Discrimination group wanted to send our troops a game based on Muslims defending Mecca??""

though I think the video game in question is in bad taste for the battlefield, the answer to your question is that they would send it for fear of "offending" muslims. They don't mind offending christians whenever...

The United States is not a Christian state. True, it was founded by a consortium of white, male, Christian landowners. But these men were wise enough to establish this great country as one for all religions, or none at all if that was one's choice.

Afraid of government control of religion, they wanted government to have no say and to let religion follow its own path free of government control. Thus, "Freedom of religion".

The very people who proclaim that the government should have its hand in religion and vice-verse are the very people who should be worried of just this situation.

It wasn't just ABC that got the Pentagon to stop this outrage. There were lawsuits in the works.

Kudos to ABC for breakign this story in the MSM though. Usually the Corporate Media censor any story like this because they all take orders from the White House.

I havent seen the game or anything but i can understand not wanting the soldiers to have something that may possibly teach further religious segregation. This country was founded on the freedom of religion and if a soldier wanted the game they could write and request a copy, but most soldiers wouldnt even bother with it.

As for Kelly.....to think that the soldiers over there are playing video games bothers you let me tell ya I have been over there 3 times now and to tell ya the truth, there isnt alot to do in your free time which isnt much after pulling 7 days straight of 20 plus hours out on patrol and getting shot at and having IEDs exploding around you....not to mention loosing your friends that are right next to you....when you get a day or two of down time playing video games and e-mailing home is about the only thing that helps you keep your sanity....so yeah we play video games over there....i bet you do or know people who play here.....they arent getting shot at and blown up all day for 7 days straight with less than 4 hours of sleep a day and lucky to get a days downtime to try to enjoy yourself in any way possible trying not to think about the fact that it could be your last day....so if its sacry to think that we have time to play video games....just think how scary it is to us to be getting shot at all day while people like you sit back here and criticize what we do in our little bit of down time....Thanks....PS your welcome for the fact that no matter what you say I will still be there defending your right to say it...

Umm, Kelly, troops in a combat theatre NEED downtime to relax, take their minds of the stress of being a target for the enemy...porn and videogames are the top two diversions in the US military - nothing at all wrong with that...c'mon, does that really "scare you"? lmao...

btw, what a stoooopid video game; try Madden 08 - just came out...

Tell these 666 hypocrite fanatics to go back to worshipping God and beating swords into plowshears and stay out of the business of war and the military!!!

"It's a horrible game," said the Rev. Timothy Simpson of the Christians Alliance for Progress.

"Progress", huh? What's this joker's idea of "progress"?

I think some of you are intolerant and look for ANY excuse to criticize someone of Christian faith. NO ONE is forced to accept any kind of care package. A soldier has the right to use what he wants and what he doesn't want. If the care package includes amenities such as toothpaste, deodorant, and mouthwash and a Christian book or video, then the soldier has the right to use what he wants and give away or dispose of the rest. If he doesn't like the deodorant he gan give it to someone who does. He can trade the Scope for the Listerine if he so desires. NO ONE IS FORCED TO USE OR KEEP ANYTHING. To say that a particular group does NOT have the right to send products that it feels may be useful is in itself discrimination. This idea that all people should be protected from any mention of or reference to Christianity is absurd. There are MANY soldiers who ARE Christians. Are we to deny them solely based on the offense of a few? Like I said before, if a soldier doesn't like what he receives then he can give it away. But to take away the choice is not only discrimination but it is UN-AMERICAN.

There are really only 4 things the soldiers in Iraq want:

1. Gatoraid for their water
2. Oreo cookies
3. "Silly String" to catch trip wires for bombs.
4. Porn.

The rest of the stuff is eventually thrown in the trash.

How about this . . . .

Tell soldiers they have an OPTION to request Evangelical preaching IF they want it -- and to request an Armaggedon video IF they want it --

Don't call us -- we'll call you --

As a veteran of the first gulf war I would have to say that soldiers would be happier with a Hustler magazine than a Christian video game....Maybe this group can send a pallet of these magazines to the troops instead of sending their "anti-christ" game.....Molacai

People, they don't have to play it.

Thank you terrorist love and anti-christian ABC news for stopping this devil game from making it to the US troops. I hope you work with CAIR next and get a nice game showing islamic terrorist killing innocent civilians sent it it's place now.

It's about making a sell. A used car salesman will tell you that you must buy the car now. There was someone else looking at it. If they return with a deposit the car is theirs. Church's use the "end is near" ploy. The end has been near since their were churches to play on mankind's illogical fears. Read about the Second Awakening. Mormons are been waiting for the end sine 1830. The Millerites and Ascension Rock is another end times tale. The rapture is another mythical saga.