Reader-submitted video: Hey, I was wondering what you thought of this. When I first saw it, I thought is was a tasteless joke on the church. But, alas, it seems that this is a real product. Shall I pre-order one?
HECK YEAH. Order a couple for me, too! Christmas is coming up, and I’ll need a prize for the next Being David Hasselhoff contest!
This has been mentioned on at least one blog I sometimes read. It actually is a tasteless joke on the Church. If you click on the preorder tab on the website, you are brought to a link for “Dante’s Inferno”, where you are told that you are a heretic and should burn in the 6th circle of hell. I can even damn my fellow sinners on facebook.
I’m relieved to hear that, actually. It’s better as a joke.
Hey. You know how kids play teacher? I used to play church when I was that age. And my best friend would get up extra early on Sundays to make sure she got to church in time to be one of the little kids in the mass, seeing as there was more kids who wanted to do it than spots, and it was first-come first-serve. And I wasn’t allowed, and I was totally jealous of her. And then her mother gave her a talking-to for treating it as “fun”.
All that to say, praying is totally a valid form of recreation. Though I’m not sure how one would play “transubstantiation.”
I started to laugh hysterically at “trade in your grace points to unlock the Holy Mysteries.”
I’m glad that Stephen got here first as I was going to rant angrily about heresy and blasphemy! About the necessity of respecting the sacred, even if you don’t agree with everything that the church (or any religion) represents. But now we be good. It’s coo.
Mongoose: Come on now. You play transubstantiation by consecrating the bread and wine. Let’s see… that would be A, B, half circle roll back? Of course, you would have to have been ordained or it’s not going to work.
Nothing like making a mockery of an institution which has been around for thousands of years and saved millions of lives… all on a Sunday evening! Now I feel guilty!
As the resident Catholic on this blog….
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OK, that was totally hilarious. Best part was the censers and the genuflecting.
Seriously, it would never be allowed to be an actual Catholic product because of the “transubstantiation” part. NO ONE except an ordained priest can do that, and even if just “playing priest” you are not supposed to say the sotto voce words. (Yes, my boys sometimes play priest, so mongoose, you aren’t alone! Naomi “wuns the churchie”.)
The most disturbing part is moving up the pews — um, the front pews are not assigned to “good” people. Everyone sitting in a church is a sinner. (And no one has an assigned seat.)
I knew it was not a Catholic product almost immediately, because they didn’t announce the imprimatur and nihil obstat — here’s the wikis for those terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprimatur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihil_obstat
We don’t buy any _Catholic_ books or media that don’t have a valid imprimatur and nihil obstat from a bishop.
In any case, very, very funny. Hubby will love this when he gets home.
It gets better: EA stages a fundamentalist protest of its own game: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174647
Oh, now that is AWESOME. Does anyone want to picket my blog? I’ll help with the signs. I bet we can pull some religious stuff out of the comments on my YouTube account.