
In Matthew 19:14, the Lord says to His meddlesome disciples, “Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.”
One commentator said, "The Super Bowl ad claimed, 'hell awaits,' and players who fire up "Dante's Inferno" on their Xbox 360 can dive right in to slay all sorts of demons and dark lords to save the girl from Satan's grasp. There's even a level where players can take on knife-wielding unbaptized babies. Kill enough of them, and players will unlock an "achievement" called the "Bad Nanny" award.
The ad almost didn't make the airwaves, however, when CBS rejected it for concluding with the tagline, "Go to hell." After Electronic Arts changed the final phrase to "Hell awaits," however, it got the nod. The approved Super Bowl ad can be seen below:
Editor's note: The advertisement contains frightening and occult imagery.
This excellent analysis was written by Dr. Patrick Lee, professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville:
A recent story in Newsweek claimed that the only reasons for opposing same-sex "marriage" are religious. But there are powerful arguments for marriage rooted not in faith but in reason.
In the December 15th [2008] edition of Newsweek, both Jon Meacham in his editor’s note and religion editor Lisa Miller in her front-page article mock arguments from scripture. At the same time, they invoke that same Bible’s authority for a “more general” message of “inclusivity,” in order to lobby for making gay marriage a sacrament. Meacham and Miller paint all opposition to the radical re-definition of marriage as hateful bigotry, comparing it to racism, and labeling appeals to the authority of the Bible against homosexual “marriage” and homosexual acts as fundamentalism. Indeed Meacham goes further: it is “the worst kind of fundamentalism.” How much worse than suicide-bombings and beheadings he does not make clear.
Others can dissect the theological and factual howlers in these essays. Here I want to correct the assumption made by Meacham and Miller that the case against same-sex “marriage” must be a Biblical one. Instead, both by faith and by reason one can see that genuine marriage must be heterosexual, that sexual acts outside of marriage are immoral, and that the state, therefore, should not declare any same-sex unions “marriages,” nor actively encourage sexual acts outside of marriage.
Consider some facts. . . . (continue reading)