tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306713789040670188.post1806642820070450090..comments2024-03-17T02:44:49.387-05:00Comments on Catholic Video Gamers: Disdain for new Mario game inspires soul-searchingAndy Kirchoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06675860534294083557noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306713789040670188.post-62236799723014167052014-06-19T15:05:01.976-05:002014-06-19T15:05:01.976-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03938561012421797849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306713789040670188.post-63228688409716035902012-06-18T22:20:19.872-05:002012-06-18T22:20:19.872-05:00An impressive share! I've just forwarded this ...An impressive share! I've just forwarded this onto a coworker who was doing a little research on this. And he in fact ordered me lunch because I found it for him... lol. So allow me to reword this.... Thanks for the meal!! 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Thanx!!Jeffrey Lupoyhttp://www.online-gambling.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306713789040670188.post-470291055247351062012-04-18T08:51:04.996-05:002012-04-18T08:51:04.996-05:00By reading both texts, I couldn't avoid findin...By reading both texts, I couldn't avoid finding myself in a similar kind of feeling about gaming overall.<br /><br />While we path different ways to reach that ending (the current lack of that passion we had about games), they drove us all to a similar conclusion: videogames, the way they presents today, don't engage us catholics anymore they way they used to.<br /><br />For me, personally, what is making me slowing wanting to get away with videogames (while I confess this is something relatively far away to happens in it's entirely) are the today's ppl/community minds.<br /><br />Everywhere you look, there are ppl in industry promoting homosexualism, relativism, liberalism, etc.. <br /><br />It started with the gaming news sites sites I follow like Eurogamer, IGN, Gamespot (by the way, there are a good source of gaming news we Catholics can follow??), and all of them started promoting sexual relationship between two mens as a normal thing.. Then it appeared now with some developers, like Bioware...<br /><br />So, where to run? Like Ayatsuri Ningyo wrote, all of the things in them that are offensive to God can't pass away for us without be noticed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306713789040670188.post-68807187848181217952012-04-10T13:20:11.317-05:002012-04-10T13:20:11.317-05:00Don't feel bad. I can't really play video ...Don't feel bad. I can't really play video games anymore (as in anything other than mindless online flash games with absolutely nothing objectionable in them), because every time I do, all of the things in them that are offensive to God, that I'd overlooked my entire youth, for really stupid and selfish reasons, glare at me from the glowing screen as if they were Judas' 30 pieces of silver. After all... why do people (especially Catholics) overlook all of the gross immodesty, blasphemy, impurity, sensuality, idolatry and general glorification of evil present in almost literally every single video game (including those really super-cute MMORPGS where the art style looks like it's for sweet kindergarten girls... but in which the costumes are still immodest, pentagrams abound, and which still talk about things like... false "deities"... in the storyline... without calling them false)?<br /><br />Why DO we look away from those things or tell ourselves, "aww... it's not so bad!", if not, like Judas, to prize our 30 hours of personal gratification above God? After all, if Our Lord was standing right there next to us, in person... would we really want to be caught looking at (let alone enjoying something with) all of that immodesty, impurity and blasphemy that offends Him? Oh wait... Oops!(Omnipresent.)<br /><br />I really doubt that at our final judgment, "but... but... I was BORED!" ... or "But Sephiroth looked SO COOL!" ... will really fly. But all of the sudden, we WILL be fully and completely aware of our everyday betrayals of Christ, just how bad they really were, and how sickeningly easily and indifferently we made them, all of our excuses aside. Or, as Our Lord lamented to a certain Spanish nun in the 1920's, in so many words, that there was nothing man esteemed less than his Creator. The same nun, who suffered visits to hell to save souls from going there, reported that souls were falling there in numbers impossible to calculate, and said that many of them went there for sins against purity. (Oops again.)<br /><br />At least Mario and Tetris didn't give us that problem. But I'm pretty sure it's written (or words to the effect), "woe to them that call good, evil, and evil good."<br /><br />Tragic thing is, people don't have to put any sinful garbage in a game at all, in order to make it absolutely awesome and captivating. Common sense: Sin never makes anything better, but it does beget death (of soul at least).<br /><br />"Incline not my heart to evil words: to make excuses in sins..." (-The Holy Mass)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com