Worried that videogames may be teaching your children to worship the Horned One? Fear not, my good friends, because a righteous crusader is here to save us all! Philadelphia paper The Bulletin sheds light on mostly old and/or obscure games, ironically providing more coverage to titles that have been ignored for years.
Writer Lance Christian (a fitting name) has given these games some free advertising, while warning parents about how they "are cashing in on the satanic, anti-Catholic and the general anti-religion content themes and using them as a draw for buyers."
"I feel that the devil has a new tool to work with in this age of technology," he writes, "and the majority of adults in a position of responsibility are left in the dark." Here are some of the games he hates the most:
Tecmo’s Deception: Invitation To Darkness: Players “make an unholy pact and sell their soul to Satan in exchange for power” with the object of the game being to ensure the resurrection of Satan and obtain his power.
Nocturne: A game in which the hero (a demon) destroys the three Archangels St. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, then goes on to destroy God.
Shadow Hearts: The hero uses his power to intercept and destroy God and “save the world.”
Dragon’s Age Origins: The game revolves around the story of God going mad and cursing the world. A witch attacks believers and players can “have sex” with her in a pagan act called “blood magic” so she can “give birth to a god.” Another scenario allows players to have sex with a demon in exchange for a boy’s soul.
Dante's Inferno, Guitar Hero, Darksiders, Devil Summoner, Koudelka, Trapt and Bayonetta are also on his hit list.
I think it's great that if some random dude talks about how devils are trying to destroy us, we lock them in a mental hospital. However, so long as they say they're a Catholic while they're talking about demons and invisible friends, we let these people walks the streets. Even better, we give them newspaper columns like this, where they can spout their schizophrenic nonsense for all to see.
The Devil isn't real, by the way. Just a heads up.
PSA: Beware the Proliferation of Satanic-Themed Games [GamePolitics]
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1:00 PM on 02.24.2010
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The devil is so going to get you for that! Prepare your tookus for a righteous pitchforking!
"You do know you're concerned over a video game of something totally fictional, right? I mean, this shit is totally made up. You're aware of that, yes?"
If you believe in god this much past the age of like, 8...You're not functional enough to be taken seriously. There is something seriously flawed within your brain.
Also, BAN THIS SICK FILTH!
whoa...whoa...stop here. This happened in dragon age? I'm picking this up today.
I've been wonder what the hell happen to that series because that game freaking ruled.
:: rolls eyes ::
Well done, Jim.
@BoBoTheChimp757:
Jim wouldn't write these posts if there weren't batshit crazy Bible thumpers pretending that fantasy is reality and trying to drum up negative feelings towards our beloved game industry by playing to people's irrational fears and superstitions.
Is that on the PC version? I got it for 360...
We'll approach all these games as entertainment, the same way we will a Harry Potter book, Sleepy Hollow or Season of the Witch films.
Perhaps there's a fear in the christian community, that because we ignore their little club of brainwashing, we can't think for ourselves. The same organisiation that also hides paedo priests, should check itself before firing shots at others in a self righteous way.
"but its okay for Kratos to destroy Gods because those religions were killed by ours."
But I do agree it is inconceivable that Morrigan's child could be a God, as Virgin Mary already copyrighted that idea.
I lol'd when I read this. This sounds a bit familiar.
I find that the classic satire novel The Screwtape Letters does a good job at refuting these claims. WARNING: Contains anti-Atheist commentary.
I don't hear anyone protesting Rygar.
Here's the truth: I've played half the games on that list and I know that I'm not going to Hell for it. Neither is anyone else. Anyone who believes otherwise is exhibiting behavior closer to the pharisees that condemned Jesus' disciples for not washing their hands than to being in line with real Christian doctrine. I'm sorry that people like Lance Christian would make people think otherwise.
People like you are the worst. "Lol you believe in God! You are therefore mentally deficient because only stupid people can possibly believe in God!"
Seriously? Please shut up and crawl back into your hole. I don't agree with this man and I'm a Christian. I believe in God and that doesn't mean I'm stupid.
@ Tubatic
If you pay attention to the introduction to Dragon Age which explains the rise of the Dark Spawn, the story is just that. Remember this opening quote?
"And so is the Golden City blackened
With each step you take in my Hall.
Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting.
You have brought Sin to Heaven
And doom upon all the world."
Its about how God's city was tainted by priests and God, driven mad, cursed them. Those cursed priests were the first Dark Spawn, according to the churck. The Dwarves would disagree. Lore is lore though.
As for the article as a whole, its utter BS. Yes, some games villify religion and so on and so forth. But its a tad too generalized as usual.
Shadow Hearts isn't nearly as satanic as he seems to think. He ignores that the hero also falls in love with the daughter of an English Priest and that he battles his own past demons. His fusion monsters are creatures, but hardly what I would consider demons. And the 'God' that he kills at the end isn't God, but rather some creature that the main villain summons to 'clense the world.'
The villains motives are better explaiend in the sequel. Point is, Shadow Hearts isn't against relgion so much as it plays on the macabre of reglion and satanic concepts within an alternate reality to create a world in which both are much more visible and active.
And furthermore, this is playing off the idea that games are still for kids. Thye are not and we'll have to keep bringing this up until people 'get it'.