Conservative Views on Super Heroes???

[Latreia]

Refering of course, to the Fantasy kind.

They seem to be mind numbing and very
influential upon children to become power obsessive and hardened to human suffering and death.

Games and toys based on fantasy super heroes all involve weapons of death, and some of them incredibly painful and cruel.

Playing Cubis2 one day, the little ad before the game showed a young boy with a toy assault rifle -- one that had the actual parts, in plastic, that could be assembled and dissassembled.

What really hurt was that there was no other image or background, just the boy and his assault weapon. It
was as though the rest of the world were unimportant.

This association with weapons and the mindset of children strikes me as the most scary thing parents should watch carefully.

So how do some conservative Christians view this?

 

[Epiphanygirl]

Gone are the days of "My little Pony"

*On a serious note, as one who loved cartoons growing up, there is a BIG change.....
I don't know if any of you have noticed all these new japanese style cartoons..........the characters are constantly screaming at each other, throwing temper tantrums, etc......how sad!

I loved Davey and Golith growing up We need more Christian artists to bring more to the cable networks, not just videos, but to the mainstream once again!

 

[Nicki4Christ]

Refering of course, to the Fantasy kind.

They seem to be mind numbing and very
influential upon children to become power obsessive and hardened to human suffering and death.

Games and toys based on fantasy super heroes all involve weapons of death, and some of them incredibly painful and cruel.

Playing Cubis2 one day, the little ad before the game showed a young boy with a toy assault rifle -- one that had the actual parts, in plastic, that could be assembled and dissassembled.

What really hurt was that there was no other image or background, just the boy and his assault weapon. It
was as though the rest of the world were unimportant.

This association with weapons and the mindset of children strikes me as the most scary thing parents should watch carefully.

So how do some conservative Christians view this?

I read your post twice. My son has Batman toys that has Super Uber large Fantasy guns? I see nothing wrong with this. I see nothing wrong with GI Joe, or half the toys I Do buy my son. Balance is the Key for me.

My husband took my son who is in Boy Scouts yesterday to a Turkey Shoot (no turkeys were shot, just what it was called) They taught the boys how to handle the BB guns the proper instructions and such. there was also a Archery area with the Bow and arrow. Proper handeling is they key for me and how I raise my son. He Knows the differnece between a Super Uber plastic toy on a Batman show, or is a game, and a real gun.



I can say if there is no balance, nor explanation to kids who do watch violent cartoons, and or video games, I do feel it densensitizes' a childs view on life.

 

[Time2BCounted]

I think personally that everyone should be a superman, a batman... Everyone should be a hero and not compromise and be budged from truth and right

 

[ReformedChapin]

It's all about...

 

[Nicki4Christ]

It's all about...

LOL NewGuy

My son has his Videos!!

 

[Lisa0315]

I don't know about fantasy and video games, but real life guns, with proper parental guidance, will not harm a kid. My brothers grew up with guns (and me too by proxy), but they were taught a great deal of respect for them.

Lisa

 

[ReformedChapin]

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[ReformedChapin]

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[Nicki4Christ]

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[ContentInHim]

Superheros as in Superman, BatMan, etc. were good role models, even if we mortals didn't have superpowers.

The current crop of superheros are actually flawed in the extreme, anti-heros, characters who are driven by wrong motives, etc. Totally different ballgame.

Now that Bible game looks really fun!

 

[constance]

The theology Superman mocks Christ, and is in fact antichrist.

 

[ContentInHim]

The theology Superman mocks Christ, and is in fact antichrist.

Who is this?

Constance - it's good to see you posting here. May it happen more often!

 

[ReformedChapin]

 

[ReformedChapin]

 

[constance]

Who is this?

Constance - it's good to see you posting here. May it happen more often!

Thanks. I have been very busy the last few months with a new job, but after this week it will be a lot better.

I used to post in the fundamentalist forum but didn't feel comfortable there after I started pursuing licensure as a minister due to the gender controversy. Even though I don't teach or preach I get quite a bit of harassment for having the license, sometimes even after I explain why.

Anyway, so if anyone wants to know why Superman is antichrist, I'd be happy to explain.

 

[Vambram]

I am old school in many ways; and this includes which comic book superheroes I read with great enjoyment when I was a kid, a teenager, and even long into my geeky days into my 20's and 30's.
My favorite superhero of all time is Captain America. Also, I really enjoyed reading the exploits and watching the movies and cartoon shows of everyone's favorite wall-crawler, Spider-Man. My other favorite super-heroes are all four members of The Fantastic Four, the Green Lantern, The Avengers, The Justice League of America, and The X-Men.

Many of the vigilante anti-heroe types whom are sometimes almost as fast to kill the villains in the comic stories, and in the video games, and in the movies as they are as compared to rate of killings by the villains;... well, most of those "heroes" do not appeal to me at all. Alot of those anti-heroes don't have the morals or even a sense of honor in order to be heroic type role models or characters I enjoy reading in comics, or watching in movies.

 

[ContentInHim]

Thanks. I have been very busy the last few months with a new job, but after this week it will be a lot better.

I used to post in the fundamentalist forum but didn't feel comfortable there after I started pursuing licensure as a minister due to the gender controversy. Even though I don't teach or preach I get quite a bit of harassment for having the license, sometimes even after I explain why.

Anyway, so if anyone wants to know why Superman is antichrist, I'd be happy to explain.

I would be interested, Constance. I have learned that the writer of Superman was non-practicing Jewish and that many of the names, inside jokes, etc. were Jewish.