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Street preaching, October 28, 2011by Emily Short "Out of Babylon" is an interactive version of one of those leaflets that you sometimes get handed at street corners when you haven't done a good enough job of avoiding eye contact. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next trojo, October 28, 2011 - Reply It's not a spoof. Just about everything this game says-- about Sunday being the Mark of the Beast and Sunday church-goers being filthy Papist Satan-worshipers-- is what you would read in any Seventh-Day Adventist tract or website. Emily Short, October 28, 2011 - Reply Hm, interesting. Somehow I had the idea that Seventh-Day Adventists worshipped on Saturdays, full stop, not that they had a lunar cycle for discovering what day the Sabbath was. (Let alone the Mark of the Beast stuff.) trojo, October 31, 2011 - Reply The conspiracy theory advanced by the game, that the Pope is unilaterally adding a new day to the year that isn't a day of the week, thus throwing everything off, appears to be the author's own idea. But the idea that the Pope wields that kind of power in the world, that everyone-- including Protestants-- venerate him, and the idea that Sunday is the Mark of the Beast, are mainline SDA beliefs, however. I hadn't looked too much at the site the game points you to when I commented. It's weird because the game decries the Pope's alleged calendar reform, but the site the game sends you to apparently proposes an even-more convoluted calendar reform of its own. Even if someone were receptive to the ideas presented by the author, they would come away unsure of what day the author wanted them to worship on. But yes, SDA folks meet on Saturday according to the conventional calendar. Sam Kabo Ashwell, October 28, 2011 - Reply Didn't this diabolical Papist plot already happen? In 1582? Emily Short, October 28, 2011 - Reply I think we're meant to understand that all previous realignments of the calendar were dangerous, but not as dangerous as this new one. It's a bit obscure. perching path, October 27, 2011 - Reply Previous | << 1 >> | NextRather comically, the game simply went black part way through my playthrough with the last bit of text having said that I'd gained a comfortable life as part of the Papal NWO's new elite. I really hadn't expected my impiety to give me such a happy ending. (Well, happy given that the story's options didn't allow for the possibility that I might care about my dead family.) |