Praise God, "Mass: We Pray" is fake.

Turns out "Mass: We Pray" was a brilliant viral marketing campaign from EA Games for their upcoming game Dante's Inferno. When you click "Pre-order now" at the Mass: We Pray site you are now taken to a screen that states the following:

"He who betrays the beliefs of the Church blackens his soul with the sin of Heresy. A Mass not celebrated by ordained priest or on consecrated soil is naught but false ritual condemned by clergy. Thou hast befouled thine eyes with the filth of profane works and betrayed all things sacred. For thy punishment, thou shalt be damned to burn in flaming tombs and hang from enflamed crosses. An an eternity of infernal fire will not cleanse thee."

That sets up a video trailer for Dante's Inferno, coming in February of next year.

All of this must make the people who truly believed "Mass" was real feel really silly. Specifically this girl (warning: she likes profanity).

"Mass: We Pray" - Horrifingly real or hilariously fake?

I have been searching for about fifteen minutes and I sincerely can not tell if this is a parody or if "Mass: We Pray" really will be coming to a video game store Christian Bookstore near you. Perhaps we'll find out on Friday, when the company will supposedly begin taking pre-orders.

If it's Christian satire, it's hilarious. If it's real, it's hilariously sad. Watch this, go to the website, and tell me what you think.

It wouldn't be the first time a Christian VG company released a ripoff version of another game. The company Digital Praise has made a living out of it. There's the "Dance Dance Revolution" imitation "Praise Dance" ("now available for the iPhone!") and Guitar Praise (coming soon for iPhone...I guess we'll have to wait for the Christian iPhone itself).

Oh, want to see great Christian satire? Go to Lark for what is essentially the Christian Onion. Go to the website for the fictional Landover Baptist Church. I pray no one thinks that church site is real and that is why I also pray the Mass game is not real.

Stay tuned...

Not far from the truth.

I don't know who the mad genius is that created this Christian satire site (www.larknews.com) but it's definitely been added to my favorites list.

Here is the page that caught my attention (and had me going for a moment): http://www.larknews.com/april_2004/secondary.php?page=2.

I'd like to show this article to some rather mechanical worship leaders I know.


LARK
lark2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lärk)n.
A carefree or spirited adventure.
A harmless prank.