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    The Hunger Games

    From a Christian view, murder is more than "a bit wrong". What I'm mad about is not the presence of violence. It's the fact that Christians are lapping up the messages of books like the Hunger Games - namely, the message that violence and murder (and sin in general) can potentially be...
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    The Hunger Games

    Fair enough, but how do revolutions halfway across the world have any impact on the individual in everyday life? Well, why should it take a book about slaughtering children to get that across to Christians, when God's Word tells us the exact same thing? Seriously, are we as Christians...
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    The Hunger Games

    From here on, I'm also addressing the Christians who have been involved in this discussion. The fact that the characters don't act like good Christians wouldn't be a legitimate reason to dislike a book. There are quite a few other reasons why I dislike the book. However, the characters'...
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    The Hunger Games

    Recently I finally managed to find a copy of The Hunger Games at a library and, with the above discussion in mind, I decided to put any past prejudices aside and give it a try. Fifteen minutes later I replaced it on the shelf for good. Put simply, after just a quarter of an hour of reading, I...
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    What are your opinions on Neon Genesis Evangelion?

    "Little story." I am appalled at the amount of sarcasm and scathing attitudes I'm seeing on these "Christian" forums. Let's forget the anecdote for now and get back to my original point. Firstly, you're claiming that Evangelion doesn't borrow heavily from Christianity - even though it...
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    The Hunger Games

    I assume when you say a book's principles, you mean what the book chooses to uphold/promote. I see the Hunger Games as promoting sin (i.e. murder) for the sake of attempting to preserve a life we're eventually going to lose. In contrast, what we as Christians ought to be doing is upholding our...
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    The Hunger Games

    So what you're saying is that your average Christian would pick up this book and read it, solely in the hope that it might strengthen their faith or perhaps help them later on in life. I think that's pretty unlikely. (Sorry if I'm sounding a bit harsh here.) I think that there's always that...
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    What are your opinions on Neon Genesis Evangelion?

    Did you have a look at the anecdote I posted originally? It's not just those who have "underlying mental problems" that can be adversely affected by this sort of stuff.
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    The Hunger Games

    There are a few points here I'd like to discuss. Before I begin, I should make clear that that this is only what I think about this, and I'm not trying to make other people think the same way. (If they don't want to, of course.) Anyway: With kids killing each other, we get mad. We see the...
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    The Hunger Games

    Sure, I get that. But my question is why I see so many Christians absorbing themselves in this stuff. Is it because our conditioning by modern society has made us want to be scared by stuff like this?
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    The Hunger Games

    *Raises hand and waves it frantically in air* No, seriously. I don't just dislike the concept of the Hunger Games; it SCARES me. The very thought of children as young as 12 killing each other in all manner of bloody fashions I find horrifying, especially when I look at all the good in this...
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    Would it be weird if I kissed Jesus?

    There's plenty on kissing for greeting someone in the Bible. 1 Peter 5:14 tells us, "Greet one another with a kiss of love", and 1 Thes. 5:26 is similar, "Greet all God’s people with a holy kiss" (both NIV). As to the manner of such kissing (on the lips or cheek or whatever) these verses...
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    first one to get too 1000 gets 1000 blessings.

    555. I just love these sorts of threads.
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    What are your opinions on Neon Genesis Evangelion?

    I read this account from the mother of a Christian family regarding her son and Evangelion. I think we're all missing the point here. Sure, Evangelion is "intriguing" (as the OP said) in its concepts and presentation of Judeo-Christian symbols and allusions. But for me, one look at a series...
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