After many false starts, the video game based on Tim LaHaye's best selling "Left Behind" novels, has finally hit the shelves. The game is now for sale in thousands of stores -- just in time for the Christmas shopping season. How it will be received, of course, remains to be seen.

But it is worth reminding ourselves that this is but one of a number of strong currents in American religious culture promoting an ideology of religious warfare.

In posts here and at Talk to Action, my colleagues Jonathan Hutson and Chip Berlet and I (among others) have been writing about Left Behind:  Eternal Forces for months.  I don't want to reprise all that we have had to say, but I have included some links on the flip.