A religious joke in the Simpsons episode “Alone Again, Natura-Diddly” may not have been far from the truth. “When the ad for a “Christian video game” crossed my desk, at first I thought it was a joke. Perhaps someone had finally decided to market “Billy Graham’s Bible Blasters,” the fictitious game featured on an episode of “The Simpsons” a few years back. Remember the episode shortly after Marge Flanders’ untimely death where Bart goes next door to visit the normally shiny-happy Christian Rod and Todd Flanders to cheer them up? He plays a religious video game titled Bible Blasters. It’s always been one of my favorite ‘Simpsons’ episodes–a clever idea and a biting bit of religious commentary–but one I thought was purely the product of the writer’s fertile imagination. Not so, apparently. With a little investigation, I discovered a whole world of “Christian” video games where Bibles, or at least the Word of God, are the weapons of choice.” Read More >>>
hahaha, this is great. I remember that. Quick note: you said Marge Flanders instead of Maude Flanders.