I didn't have access really to ones I shouldn't have been playing, but I guess to name on it would be the grand theft auto series, and I agree to that. I'm 24 and married now, and I'll keep my kids away from it the best I can as well
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Tomb raider, which is kinda understandable since I was 6. My uncle had actually given it to us, and my mom hid it away immediately. I remember seeing my brother and his friend sneak play it, and didn't see what the fuss was about. Thinking back on it now, I can though.
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Now my parents, as well as myself, are Christians, so when they found out that the games (or rather the anime, since that's what they knew about first) involved magic, dark powers and such, I was immediately boycotted from it. It was never fully explained to me at the time why I wasn't allowed to watch the show, so naturally I got curious and saw a few episodes in secret and didn't really see what was so bad about it. Later on I understood why, and appreciate my parent's diligence, but now things are just getting ridiculous. For some reason, while they disapprove of anything involving magic and witchcraft in games (also extreme bloody violence, but I don't like those types of games anyway), if I so much as mention Pokemon they attack it incessantly, saying it's "of the devil" and the like. I'm 18 years old, and well beyond the easily impressionable age, and my potential interest in the series has grown quite a bit, so I might just turn the tables at some point. Yet at the same time I want to respect them. Even so, I've already gone behind their backs and have played Fire Emblem games, which I'm sure they wouldn't like.
Okay. Anyone want to know why Pokemon is shunned by many Christians? Here's the guy who seemed to have started it all.
Now, clearly there are so many darn misunderstandings by this man, it cringes me to think how this happened. My first guess would be that his kid was playing the new video game "Poh-Kee-Mon", and told him to tell him what he was playing. Perhaps the child didn't quite understand what was happening on the screen and said it was "magic", and the Pokemon gave him "magical powers" to kill others in battle. Now I'll have you know, this is before the anime came out, or at least he has not seen the anime, otherwise he'd realize what Pokemon REALLY do (in the context of fiction).
Even though the uploader added clips of the anime into the video, I highly doubt the pastor knew about the anime. That kind of misinformation probably could only come from a child and/or 8-bits (which might be incomprehensible to some people).
Pokemon does not regularly contain any magic, dark powers, and it is not made by the devil, it was made by Gamefreak. There a few Pokemon whom have creepy powers, magical skills, and its design may reference something hell-bound (like ghost-types and Houndoom), but the ones that do are usually culturally based, not biblically based unless the Bible characters has made it that far in culture to become a Pokemon.
I had Christian parents, I went to a Christian private school. My parents let me play Pokemon. In fact it was one of my favorite video games, and imagine how awkward that would be in a Christian private school. I don't know if they heard the myths, or just thought it was silly. The only thing close thing to disaproval was when my mother told me "Don't physically fight others for fun like Pokemon do".
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I about lost it when Jigglypuff's "mugshot" came up while he was talking about the devil. XD
But yeah, if this guy thought Pokemon was of the devil, I can't imagine what his reaction would be if he saw any of the Shin Megami Tensei games!
@Wings Do you at all find it odd that they are in disapproval of Pokémon, yet Pikmin is fine?
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My parents also disapproved of Pokemon. Not because they thought it was against Christianity,but because the game records your time and mine said over 400 hours played. They also used to disapprove of things like Harry Potter, but after I argued how fiction has little to do with witchcraft, they haven't really objected since.
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My parents also disapproved of Pokemon. Not because they thought it was against Christianity,but because the game records your time and mine said over 400 hours played.
it happened to me when I got the Pokemon Crystal. but instead of 400 hours it was over 100 hours in one single week!(more than 14 hours per day! )
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My parents played by the esrbs rules. When your a teen, you can play teen, when your 17 you can play M rated, blah blah blah. Though i was not Nintendo restricted. I played tons of steam games, and played CoD at friends houses.(without my parents knowing, of course).
When I was five or six my dad, after allowing my sister to play the game for nine years at most, took The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from me after I had already been playing it for two or three years, probably because of the witch stirring the pot. I've never been allowed to play Pokemon, likely for the reasons that have been stated. Funny enough, my mom was fine with me reading 1984.
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@swordx: I read 1984 six months ago. If I had read 1984 as a five or six year old, I would have definitely had nightmares and learned about a certain thing a bit too early. But yeah, I can't play Pokemon, but I can read books with sexual content and play games like Xenoblade or Grandia II.
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@swordx: I read 1984 six months ago. If I had read 1984 as a five or six year old, I would have definitely had nightmares and learned about a certain thing a bit too early. But yeah, I can't play Pokemon, but I can read books with sexual content and play games like Xenoblade or Grandia II.
Xenoblade has magic in the form of ether...lol
My family and even teachers taught me that as long as things are treated as fiction, it's okay. It's a good way of thinking imo.
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