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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4 Comments

1. Zac says:

   November 18, 2009 at 12:07 pm

   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.
2. Zac says:

   November 18, 2009 at 12:24 pm

   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
3. Montana says:

   November 18, 2009 at 1:29 pm

   ya, I had my doubts as to whether it was legit or not.
   Where did you find it wasn’t legit?
4. Mike says:

   November 19, 2009 at 7:33 am

   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.