A Christian video game has become the latest battleground in America's culture wars, with its maker claiming it promotes prayer while critics charge that it carries a message of violent religious intolerance.
Left Behind: Eternal Forces is a teen-rated PC strategy game based on the wildly popular Left Behind Christian book series created by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
The game is set in New York City after millions of Christians have been transported to heaven.
Players are charged with recruiting, and converting, an army that will engage in physical and spiritual warfare with the antichrist and his evil followers....