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Gaming Naysayers Have Little Context for Criticism
Buzzcut.com has a nice piece on the lack of context video game critics have in making their arguments. It should be noted he is not referring to today's report card, but a list of Top Ten most violent games put out by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. From the article: "I followed up with a simple question, "Who on this panel has played which of the games?" Burke answered first, "I haven't played any of them." She backed up her willful ignorance of the games by suggesting that she didn't need to play Soldier of Fortune to know that she was opposed to its glorification of killing. "I think it's an irrelevant question," she concluded."
Anything that makes us flesh and blood beings with desires, joy and drive is animalistic and must be expunged.
Show me where in the Bible it says or even hints that. It's not there.
Also, the core catholic church is considered by many (Not ALL) christians to be little more then a Cult. At the same time many people who are true christians belong to the catholic church.
Let me briefly try and explain this oddity.
The Catholic Church has most of the major points of the Bible correct. However the Key Difference is that they put themselfs before the Bible, and to some extent God., For Christians there is nothing higher then God, and anything a man says (priest or otherwise) must fall in line with what the Bible says.
The Catholic church wants people to trust them to tell people what the Bible says and how it should be interpeted. Many of the priests truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and you must be saved through him, sadly many do not, they view Jesus as a great teacher, or perhaps the Son of God, but you don't have to go through him to get to heaven.)
If you read Mathew Mark Luke and John, you will see many times the conflict Jesus had with corrupt Priests.
Ok, you've read this far, now you can mark this as Flame bait.
Their goals are ignorance enforced by the rule of law, and to find somewhere to go that gives them a sence of purpose in their bleak empty wasteland of an existance. They want the world to know they were here, they know they don't know anything, don't want to know how to do anything, and that the world doesn't care. It's fear, shame and pride.
That's what most of Christianity in America is. And that's a shame. While I'm obviously not a Christian, I've met a couple of the "true believers" over 30 odd years. And honestly, they're among the best people I've met.
Who knows, if it were people like them that presided over my, ultimately failed indoctrination, maybe I'd be a Christian today. There is something enviable about their faith being a reseivoir of strength to butress them against the inequities of the world. There is something admirable about their desire to be generous to a fault. And there is something comfortable about their understanding that good is good, unless someone has been extorted into doing it.
Well, actually you only kill the evil Vizier, if you think about it....
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)