{"id":599,"date":"2010-09-27T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.wordpress.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-09-27T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:30:22","slug":"choose-your-own-adventure-for-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2010\/09\/choose-your-own-adventure-for-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Own Adventure For\u00a0Christians!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/choose-your-own-adventure.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-600\" title=\"choose your own adventure\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/choose-your-own-adventure.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"410\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you\u2019re like me, you had a few of those \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d books when you were young. \u00a0(Luckily, I didn\u2019t have the one pictured above\u2026). \u00a0I had thought that my days of picking which page on which to continue my story were over, but thankfully I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I present to you<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/timshen.esmartguy.com\/thesoj\/whole.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>The Sojourner<\/strong><\/a>, a free online \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d game for Christians!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The good thing about Christian games is that you don\u2019t have to deal with all the violence and gore that secular games have these days. \u00a0My favorite \u201cending scene\u201d from the site is the following (SPOILER ALERT!) :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201c<em>Unfortunately it is you\u2019re fate (or karma) to be crushed to death.Chainsaws poke out of every wall\u2026greedy for yor blood. You are terrified to find yourself sliding into a black void and an unbearable heat gets hotter and hotter! Demons grab at your legs to pull you into an eternity of suffering\u2026<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Another highlight presents itself when you find yourself in the room of \u201cSatisfaction.\u201d \u00a0Choose to \u201cjoin the group smoking drugs,\u201d and then \u201ccall out for help.\u201d \u00a0You then go to the \u201cWho do you call to?\u201d page, where you have the following options:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>1.<\/em><em>Allah.<\/em><em><br>\n2.<\/em><em>Buddha. <\/em><em><br>\n3.<\/em><em>Your Hindu gods. <\/em><em><br>\n4.<\/em><em>Jesus. <\/em><em><br>\n5.<\/em><em>Your god (if not mentioned above). <\/em><em><br>\n6.<\/em><em>Anyone who happens to be a round!(You\u2019re an Athiest)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I\u2019ll give you a hint. \u00a0Most of those answers result with more chainsaw walls\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 If you\u2019re like me, you had a few of those \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d books when you were young. \u00a0(Luckily, I didn\u2019t have the one pictured above\u2026). \u00a0I had thought that my days of picking which page on which to continue my story were over, but thankfully I was wrong. \u00a0 I present to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,74,77],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-choose-your-own-adventure","tag-gratuitous-violence","tag-insane"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Choose Your Own Adventure For\u00a0Christians!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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