If you regularly watch the popular TV show, "The Simpsons," as I do, then you're already aware of its clever, dead-on satire about American culture, family life, and religion. In one memorable episode, young Bart Simpson, a proverbial bad seed, finds himself in the care of his fundamentalist and evangelical neighbors, the Flanders family. Naturally, Ned and Maude (the parents) have carefully monitored the leisure activities of their obedient sons, Rod and Todd, so Bart is bored stiff around these goody-goodies.


The situation perks up a bit when the boys haul out their favorite (and only) video game called Bible Busters. The objective is to convert all heathens (depicted on screen as cavemen) into Bible-toting Christians, who stand erect in three-piece suits. This conversion is accomplished by zapping the heathen dead on with a Bible shaped salvo.

Bart is, of course, a master at blood-and-guts video games. He eventually takes over the controls, but struggles to make a clean hit. Finally, he zaps a heathen and exclaims, "I got him! I got him! " Rod examines the screen and shots Todd an awkward sideways glance and responds, "Uh, No Bart. You just winged him... and made him a Unitarian."