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  orez | March 17, 2008
  A few years ago, I'm not sure if it still goes on, but a few years ago a friend of mine's church allowed the members to go downstairs and play Halo on a big screen TV. It drew in a good deal of people. More people would be drawn into church if more started doing this, but it would be seen as a major gimmick by the majority of the world.
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  jmac353 | March 17, 2008
  It feels to me like the Halo craze is over. And good riddance too.
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  Seproth | March 17, 2008
  ROFL, that'd be ironic. Earths religions using a game about a crusade(on a galactic scale) to lure people into beliefs that have also lead to crusades. It'd be hilarious if the Catholic church used it...
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  Sereph | March 17, 2008
  Using video games to get people in the doors can either be good or bad depending on how you look at it. If you're using them to bribe people to come to church who should already be going, then it's stupid and wrong. If you're using it to get people to come that wouldn't normally come then that's smart.
  
  However, using a violent game like Halo 3 that stresses putting hundreds of thousands of bullets into other creatures and humans for fun is just asinine. It's like putting bikini-clad women in a church commercial just to get people's attention.
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  kik36 | March 17, 2008
  If they're that desperate for members, why don't they show porn.....they will be overflowing with people.
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  Jaw Knee | March 17, 2008
  No, this is stupid. Churches shouldn't be doing this. Teens aren 't going to church to learn about God, they're going to church so they can *bleep* up the Covenant and save the universe. Take away the videogame, they'll stop coming. Churches will realize that they have loyal, religious followers that wouldn't care either way if they had an XBOX in the basement, and that they don't need to lure anyone there with a videogame.