Mass: We Pray – The Video Game
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Mass: We Pray – The Video Game.
J.C. sent me this link to a interesting new game for the Wii. Thanks J.C.!
Can/should church be simulated in the home through a TV screen?
Is this just a gimmick intended to make a company money, or is there a place for this?
More importantly, what would a Pentecostal Wii game be like? 
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This is idolatry as far as I am concerned. Perhaps that language of idolatry seems very strong, but the very concept of a \virtual church\ is itself a self-defeating construct. The church is supposed to be a gathered community — a community that meets physically and not simply in idea or imagination. To make religion and its spiritual practices or disciplines into a virtual practice is to buy into the modern and post-modern obsession with voyeurism. Here one sees the transformation of liturgy (the work of the church, or the people) into lethargy.
At least, that is my humble opinion.
I recant my critique only because this is clearly a bogus game. It’s not real. However, the critique stands for a lot of other “Virtual Church” type options out there.
Zac
ya, I had my doubts as to whether it was legit or not.
Where did you find it wasn’t legit?
Montana – do a Google search on \Mass: We Pray\, you’ll find a number of sites have done some checking and found numerous little clues that this is probably a joke/hoax/prank. Here’s a link to one:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96208-Mass-We-Pray-A-Holy-Hoax-or-Just-a-Really-Bad-Game
If indeed this is, as it seems, a joke/hoax/prank, then it’s worse than blasphemy – it’s trivialization. Blasphemy at least takes the symbols of religion seriously when mocking them.