Simply amazing. Yet another moron has come out of the woodwork to jump on the "games are evil" train and share his myopic, frightened views with the world. The real kicker here is that he suggests having a "game burning" without the slightest trace of irony.
Rev. Richard Patrick had this to say, blaming entertainment for crime, rather than, y'know, criminals:
We are considering having something similar to a rally where parents and children can bring CDs and video games that they consider are destructive to the mind set of our youth and have a burning, just like they had a gun buyback last year...
Young people are being influenced by what they see and what they hear. They are being influenced by television ... television and videos are telling young people a vision but something that's not reality...
[Violent media] has a tremendous influence on young people and violence. That's basically all they see. Most of them try to emulate what they see, when in reality, the people they see don't even live in those communities. Some of the rappers they see on TV portraying crime don't live in the urban areas — they live in the suburbs somewhere. It's all a facade.
Preach on, Reverend! I'll be sure to hold my tongue when you convince children to burn their videogames because they're being "influenced" by them, not that you'd be doing anything like that, right? Hypocrite.
It's just scary that the word "burning" can be casually tossed around like that, as if it's completely natural and not at all mental. Society really hasn't traveled far from the days when books were scary to crowds of clucking morons, no matter how much we think we've evolved as a species.
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8:39 AM on 06.09.2008
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And people still follow them. Amazing. So many sheep...
"Young people are being influenced by what they see and what they hear." Awesome. lets let them see and hear that they should burn things they don't like.
That went over really big in Salem a few years back.
P.S. - "... have a burning, just like they had a gun buyback last year." I thought fire produced smoke, not dollars. Have I been doing it wrong?
I don't think they'll be burning too many copies of Mario Party, buddy.
Also, I'm not surprised at all. As the great Agent K once said, "A person is smart, people are stupid."
Who knows, maybe I'll be able to sneak away a few gems for myself before they light 'em up.
By the way, when we give such caustic responses to the preacher, we're essentially letting him win. Flamebait exists in places besides the internet, y'know.
Can't we burn something more natural and bio-degradable?!?!?! Ahhhh, what about a Pyre Fire burning of Reverants, Vicors and all them other loony Religous peeps who have obviously dropped too much LSD and pretend that they have not touched it to believe such nonesense.... very naughty and evil people as this picture proves FACT!
I suggest stealing it first.
And I don't think burning the bible would work. I think I'm pretty much a Christian, but even I realize the bible isn't supposed to be taken literally. It's a book of lessons. When people decide to take one sentence out of a book of millions of lines, and say "LOOKIT GAWD SAYS SO!!!!!" they obviously aren't in the right mind to tell anyone else what to do. But that's an entirely different story.
Not every pastor or priest, or Christian (protestant or Catholic) subscribes to this type of crazy. If your going to toss someone under the bus then quit generalizing.
If you're going to overgeneralize religion based on a few wackos, GTFO my Destructoid.
QFT.
I'm sure there's a study that proves that cancer has a less profound effect on people than video games
Try reading the entire article before you pass judgment, please.
Did something change about internet etiquette that I missed?
What good has religion done?
Religion teaches ignorance and hypocrisy. Most people I know manipulate the church by using "confession" as a way to keep doing sinful activities.
Back in day religion was used to give poor people and slaves hope so they would keep working 22 hours a day while living off of moldy bread and dirty water. Religion is used to manipulate and scare people into doing fucking stupid things that have a false meaning.
they'll all die from the toxins the burning plastic will give off anyway.
Your just like all of the religious hypocrites out there. Shunning facts because you were raised on fiction.
........... whoa I just blacked out there for a second, what happened?
Think about what im saying......or is it too much to handle?
We are fucked.
I believe it has. Not entirely, no, but there are plenty of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists who are able to conform their beliefs with the rest of mankind and live peacefully.
Of course, that's boring, and will never make the news. Hence, why you always see the religious nutjobs and fundamentalists in the headlines.
Also, Jack of No Trades, didn't you know many of society's charities (including the Salvation Army and the YMCA) are religion based?
What you call fiction I believe is truth. Do you have a problem with that?
Yes I have a problem with it only when you say your way of thinking is the right way. If this article was never posted we wouldn't have been arguing. Lets just stop, because neither side will when.
The solution? -Evolution fits perfectly into God's plan. What greater achievment than fostering a single cell organism into a God conscious being can you think of?
Christians (at least the normal ones, anyway) believe that if the world is indeed ending, there is nothing AT ALL that will either bring it along faster, or be some sort of 'sign' that it's coming.
I love space, evolution, and the possiblity of multiple universes far more fascinating because it is something we can test and explore. Unlike science, religion is all based off a book that was created by man and represents a fairytale.
Spanish Inquisition, Crusades and destroying other nations religious systems, to install and spread your own, never mind the paedo priests and the cover ups and protection of them.
Sod off, you jumped up Pastor Bake.