it is only a of christians (hopefully) minority that thinks that way and I
consider a little crazy, but who am I to judge?
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From: "Bryan Peterson" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games and religion
And yet they idolize C.S. Louis when, by their own logic, he should be
sin. So I totally agree. And then they make their own video and computer
games which involve their share of combat to slay the demons and eil
spirits, the very things they seem to vilify. I remember hearing of a
computer or video game a few years back, althogh I forget the title, which
put you in control of a CHristian champion exploring an underground
labyrinth to find and rescue other Christians who were imprisoned down
there. And yes, I seem to recall the game had its share of tricks ad traps
and monsters. So how they can come down on you for a game wherein your
goal is to rid a world or, in MOTA's case, a tomb, of evil, is beyond me.
I respect people's beliefs but often they make absolutely no sense to me.
I want you...to go upstairs...and kill that boy!
From: "ari" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games and religion
Good one Wil! But, I hate to really throw a spanner in the works here,
but what I find interesting is, and I'll tell you guys why I think it's
rubbish, but as a liberal Christian myself I find it weird how some
Christian pastors who claim that somehow playing some games actually
loosens evil spirits, or makes you vulnerable to becoming possessed
somehow. This is especially so where I live, because in Africa many
people have very strong beliefs in spirits and evil forces being able to
influence the world. Like, I know you have them in America as well, the
people who say you listen to the music, when it gets played backwards you
get the hidden messages? I'll tell you why I don't believe the whole
thing about spirits and games, because if it was so, Phil and Dark and
everyone who likes and does fantasy RPG's would have been really mentally
disturbed by now! You just need logic and balance. I won't say that
elements in games could influence you or could disturb you mentally
enough into taking up wrong spiritual practices, but it is for you to not
allow that, like I would consider a game that had something like
glassy-glassy to be uncomfortable for me to play, since I believe that is
wrong in real life that is not something I would ever want to dabble in.
If I think a game could be spiritually disturbing for me, I just don't
play it. I remember, and this was even a long time after the Berlin Wall
came down, in my defense I was only 9 years old, didn't understand
politics and was very impressionable, but at school we had this weird old
guy who loved teaching us, probably from an old sylabus written during
apartheid gave us Life Orientation, and one of his favourite topics was
the evil influences computer games had on people. They were iether
introduced to the West by Leftist and Soviet Russian forces to lead us
away from our Christian values through brainwashing, and some aparrently
were openly from the devil, apparrently he claimed that there was a game
where you had to go into churches and break things. It's disgusting to
make little kids like that so paranoid and even a bit fearful, but I was
lucky enough to have a great older brother and friends who told me that
normal games are not like that, that games are actually good, and that,
at that time you'd hardly ever see games with such disturbing and wrong
themes for me in the shops.
Ari
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