I Must Have This!

Dear Santa,

For Xmas, I want a cool new game:

Wholesale slaughter of innocents is nothing new in games — board or online — where players adopt godlike figures to whack others along their way to victory.

But a new board game replaces ancient gods or invented goddesses with game characters from major religions of the modern world.

Playing Gods: The Board Game of Divine Domination bills itself as the world's first satirical board game of religious warfare.'

It's like Risk, but better:

Three-inch plastic figurines include Jesus bashing people with a cross, Moses slugging away with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, the Buddha with a machine gun, and a turbaned fellow with a bomb and a dagger vaguely hinting at Mohammed, all to be set loose to "force the people of the world to worship you."

I wonder if they'll include the Futurama version of Santa as a bonus? Ooh, maybe so:

Players can choose among the five figurines or make one for themselves with stickers for a "god" who resembles Oprah, a stein of beer or Satan or add a word label such as Islam, technology, even 'the Almighty Dollar.'

I'll take Jesus and his +2 cross over Oprah any day of the week.

You can get one here, Santa!

Thanks,
Your pal, JDB