An Unintelligently Designed Board Game
Remember these two guys with the banana? Yesterday, by way of a friendly neighborhood atheist, everyone's favorite godless biologist, and the good Reverend, I learned of their latest creation, a brainless board game called Intelligent Design vs. Evolution, and just had to join in all the fun:
Word on the street is the fix is in!
Breaking News:
Lo and behold, in today's Houston Chronicle the Associated Press reports that there are "No trivial pursuits in these games."
Fans of Candyland who happen to be Jewish might enjoy Kosherland, the object of which is to "Spin your way to the Kosher Home," making sure "not to get stuck mixing milk and meat together!"
For Catholics who like to play Monopoly, there's Catholic-opoly, the goal of which "is to build as many churches and cathedrals as possible in order to 'help spread the word of the Lord.'"
Evangelicals who enjoy a good game of Risk may want to try Missionary Conquest, in which they can "Travel around the world as a missionary and learn to finance [their] trips with wise investments." And just in case the kids have been neglecting their studies, parents will be glad to learn that "No Bible knowledge is required to play, win or to enjoy this game."
And finally, we have Race to the Kabah, an entertaining way to "Learn the 99 names of Allah while making your way to the Kabah (one of Islam's holiest places) before the other players."
Further commentary forthcoming, just as soon as I make my way through the rest of today's religion columns.
Link Love:
Thanks goes to Kristine of Amused Muse for posting a link to my additional findings in the comments over at PZ's, Rev. Dan of Outchurched for including a link in his recent post on these silly games, and Pickle05 for her recommendation over at StumbleUpon.
Breaking News:
Lo and behold, in today's Houston Chronicle the Associated Press reports that there are "No trivial pursuits in these games."
Fans of Candyland who happen to be Jewish might enjoy Kosherland, the object of which is to "Spin your way to the Kosher Home," making sure "not to get stuck mixing milk and meat together!"
For Catholics who like to play Monopoly, there's Catholic-opoly, the goal of which "is to build as many churches and cathedrals as possible in order to 'help spread the word of the Lord.'"
Evangelicals who enjoy a good game of Risk may want to try Missionary Conquest, in which they can "Travel around the world as a missionary and learn to finance [their] trips with wise investments." And just in case the kids have been neglecting their studies, parents will be glad to learn that "No Bible knowledge is required to play, win or to enjoy this game."
And finally, we have Race to the Kabah, an entertaining way to "Learn the 99 names of Allah while making your way to the Kabah (one of Islam's holiest places) before the other players."
Further commentary forthcoming, just as soon as I make my way through the rest of today's religion columns.
Link Love:
Thanks goes to Kristine of Amused Muse for posting a link to my additional findings in the comments over at PZ's, Rev. Dan of Outchurched for including a link in his recent post on these silly games, and Pickle05 for her recommendation over at StumbleUpon.
3 comments:
You can start learning to be a neocon as young as 10 with Missionary Conquest! A neocon AND a dominionist. Good grief. If Satan existed, he (or she) couldn't have come up with a better way to corrupt kids and keep ruining the world.
Jeepers, Missionary Conquest--that is a joke, right? I mean, really!
"No Bible knowledge is required to play, win or to enjoy this game." But it sounds to me like the whole point is to know a player biblically? I guess not, with "ages 10 and up."
Too bad. I was envisioning a variant of "Twister."
> "No Bible knowledge is required to play, win or to enjoy this game."
That should be posted on the door of every church in America.
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