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Tiga Ronso
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Oh great, not another, annoying thread like this. I am getting real tired of this ****. I am normally not one to lose my temper, but I am getting dangerously close to doing so, and believe me, you don't want to read what I have to say when I am angry. Censorship is wrong in itself. It strips away our free will, which was granted to us by God. Thus, censorship is a sin. Why is it that people always bring up games like GTA3? Not all games are like that, in fact GTA3 is one of the exceptions. The reason is that it fits their view of games. They don't like to look at other games since mentioning those games would contradict their views. I really hope people stop posting these topics, since the more evil you make games to be, the more people will be attracted to them.
Its like when you tell a child "No" to something. They just want to do it more then. Most fads such as Pokemon and Yugioh get more popular after someone tries to prevent people from doing it.
Its like when you tell a child "No" to something. They just want to do it more then. Most fads such as Pokemon and Yugioh get more popular after someone tries to prevent people from doing it.
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I think that video games are good because they can help us control violent impulses. 
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Ok dude... You may have your own opinions on video games/music/anime/TCGs etc etc etc.... But why bother spamming the forums for it? Whats the point? Woo Hoo you don't like this stuff end of story..
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ok I know I'm new, I really am. But yeah a lot of games out there are horrible. TO the guy that went on an anti computer/video games rant with the computers open the door to pornography and so on you're right. They do, but It is the mind of every person that does this. WE CONTROL WHAT WE DO. So if a person looks at porn that is their decision and they need to get help. anyway let's let this hateful thread end.
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Troll? I'm offended. I'm just trying to get people to think about these serious topics. If I offended anyone I apologize.
Um.....we aren't supposed to force Christianity on anyone unless it is their desicion they really aren't saved.
Not supposed to force Christianity on anyone? But thats what we do best! We saved those souls of those poor primitive Native Americans by putting them into Missionarys where they could be educated. Don't forget the countless Africans we saved as well.
Bloody Mary taught 300 plus people prostestants what happens when you don't choose not to be saved. Lets not forget the Salem witch trials where christianity showed 20 people what happens when you work with the devil instead of denouncing him and being saved.
Of course lets not forget the people who were saved by their own will. The childrens crusade may be an example. Where a bunch of children believing god impowered them set off to take back the Holy land believing that once they reached the sea it would part for them. Their rewards were numerous. Some died of starvation others were sold into slavery. Did I mention that on the way to the holy land that soldiers of christ practiced killing Jews? Their deaths were forced that on them.
Enough Satire time to get the point. Most of you failed to pick up on the Satire last time. I've played video games and they are good. Studies show media violence does not increase real life violence. If any of you are interested read Freedmans book, "Media Violence and Its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence."
But back to christianity as an organization though. I've only scratched the surface and have many more examples.
Let talk about the Inquisition. This is where in 1231 Pope Gregory IX
basically said any heretic who did not repent recieved capital punishment. Anyone who choose to repent and choose to be saved got a small punishment of life imprisonment, solitary confinement might I add so they could think about what they did. I'd also like to add that confessions we gotten through torture. A horrible horrible horrible thing. Executions were carried out by burning on a stake. If you want a painful and gruesomeway to die being slowly burned as your skin peals off is the way to go. I'm disgusted at even the thought of this. But it happened. If you interested to know more you can read the book The Medieval Inquisition by Holmes and meier. Also anyone who was imprisoned or killed all of their property was taken.
In 1542 the pope formed a group of people composed of cardinals and other officials to over see the local inquisition. This groupd was called the Congregation of the Holy Office and is actually still around too day now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Lets talk a little more about this group, because they have effected history in other negative ways. Maybe their are a few positive things they have done, but I'm really not here to talk about those. This group helped stop the advancement of knownledge. This was the same group who threatened to kill Galileo in 1633 for believing that the earth revolved around the sun. Basically, they were saying if you don't believe in my christian beliefs backed up by the bible we can kill you just like we killed all those other people.
This group also had an extensive list of forbidden books. Can't have people looking up alternative idea and thinking. 
So they placed limitation on freedom of speech. A right that people didn't have back then.
Lets fast-forward to the 20th century as several bible sized books could be written on the evils of the christianity in the far past. Many people are thinking that all these things happened many years go and don't happen today. Lets take a look at christianity in ireland. This is where Protestant and catholics kill each other for no other reason then for each others religion. In Feb. a protestant gundowned a 5 catholics in a betting shop. Now catholics and Protestants had lived together for a while with each other without killing each other that often. What is it that these people find so objectionable that they need to kill each other over? It another long story involving their religion. I wonder if they didn't consider themselves christians if they would still murder each other?
More about the 20th century. The catholic church helps the spread of aids by encouraging people not use condoms or other forms of birth control when they have sex. They will even go as far as to say HIV can't be prevented by condoms. Don't believe me do a search on the internet for "Vatican cardinal condoms can't stop HIV."
Their more too, the catholic church encourages the hatred towards people of different sexual orientation. Or how about the cover up about priests having sex with little boys. All possible by the institution known as the christian church.
Or how about Faith healing? How well does it work? Does relying on god and refusing to heal people really save someones life. According to Geogre street journal over 200 children have died in the last 15 years, because their parents relied exclusively on faith to heal them. 200 children with disease like diabetes and dehydration that could have been treated. 200 innocent children have been killed just in the last 15 years... Slow painful deaths might I add. In 1998 78 graves of children were found in Followers of Christ Church cementary. A following investigation should that children born into this church were 4.5 times more likely to die... think about it. Many of these diseases were easily treated, but once again faith resulted in their death from hard-headed parents.
I'm sure your all thinking well none of these people were really christians, because christians don't believing in killing people? Well, I'm sure those people who died would have their own opinions on that one, but it was the interpratation of christianity that caused these peoples deaths. Do you really think all those Native Americans would have died in Missionaries if the settlers weren't Christians? Maybe, maybe not. Would have all those people been hanged at the Salem witch trials for being with devil if that town was non-religious based. Again Maybe, Maybe not. Would the people in Irlend be fighting right now. I bet you all those children would not have died if it wasn't for their faith. How many wars are created by conflict of you religion with other religions. There are approx. 56 official wars going on in the world according to the Red Cross. How many of them are religion based? Ask your self. Well, I'm done. I've said more then enough to get me banned, but its the truth. :banned: Hopefully a few of you will read this before its all deleted by the moderates. Many of you are probably angered by this post. But again its the truth your are part of an organization of murder and corruption. Not everything your religion has done is bad. There is much good such as the soup kitchen and Aid you give, but don't you think you could do that with out supporting an organization such as this.
Could you Maintain you belief in God without supporting something that has evil roots and maintains those roots today. bye
Um.....we aren't supposed to force Christianity on anyone unless it is their desicion they really aren't saved.
Not supposed to force Christianity on anyone? But thats what we do best! We saved those souls of those poor primitive Native Americans by putting them into Missionarys where they could be educated. Don't forget the countless Africans we saved as well.
Bloody Mary taught 300 plus people prostestants what happens when you don't choose not to be saved. Lets not forget the Salem witch trials where christianity showed 20 people what happens when you work with the devil instead of denouncing him and being saved.
Of course lets not forget the people who were saved by their own will. The childrens crusade may be an example. Where a bunch of children believing god impowered them set off to take back the Holy land believing that once they reached the sea it would part for them. Their rewards were numerous. Some died of starvation others were sold into slavery. Did I mention that on the way to the holy land that soldiers of christ practiced killing Jews? Their deaths were forced that on them.
Enough Satire time to get the point. Most of you failed to pick up on the Satire last time. I've played video games and they are good. Studies show media violence does not increase real life violence. If any of you are interested read Freedmans book, "Media Violence and Its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence."
But back to christianity as an organization though. I've only scratched the surface and have many more examples.
Let talk about the Inquisition. This is where in 1231 Pope Gregory IX
basically said any heretic who did not repent recieved capital punishment. Anyone who choose to repent and choose to be saved got a small punishment of life imprisonment, solitary confinement might I add so they could think about what they did. I'd also like to add that confessions we gotten through torture. A horrible horrible horrible thing. Executions were carried out by burning on a stake. If you want a painful and gruesomeway to die being slowly burned as your skin peals off is the way to go. I'm disgusted at even the thought of this. But it happened. If you interested to know more you can read the book The Medieval Inquisition by Holmes and meier. Also anyone who was imprisoned or killed all of their property was taken.In 1542 the pope formed a group of people composed of cardinals and other officials to over see the local inquisition. This groupd was called the Congregation of the Holy Office and is actually still around too day now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Lets talk a little more about this group, because they have effected history in other negative ways. Maybe their are a few positive things they have done, but I'm really not here to talk about those. This group helped stop the advancement of knownledge. This was the same group who threatened to kill Galileo in 1633 for believing that the earth revolved around the sun. Basically, they were saying if you don't believe in my christian beliefs backed up by the bible we can kill you just like we killed all those other people.
This group also had an extensive list of forbidden books. Can't have people looking up alternative idea and thinking. So they placed limitation on freedom of speech. A right that people didn't have back then.Lets fast-forward to the 20th century as several bible sized books could be written on the evils of the christianity in the far past. Many people are thinking that all these things happened many years go and don't happen today. Lets take a look at christianity in ireland. This is where Protestant and catholics kill each other for no other reason then for each others religion. In Feb. a protestant gundowned a 5 catholics in a betting shop. Now catholics and Protestants had lived together for a while with each other without killing each other that often. What is it that these people find so objectionable that they need to kill each other over? It another long story involving their religion. I wonder if they didn't consider themselves christians if they would still murder each other?
More about the 20th century. The catholic church helps the spread of aids by encouraging people not use condoms or other forms of birth control when they have sex. They will even go as far as to say HIV can't be prevented by condoms. Don't believe me do a search on the internet for "Vatican cardinal condoms can't stop HIV."
Their more too, the catholic church encourages the hatred towards people of different sexual orientation. Or how about the cover up about priests having sex with little boys. All possible by the institution known as the christian church.
Or how about Faith healing? How well does it work? Does relying on god and refusing to heal people really save someones life. According to Geogre street journal over 200 children have died in the last 15 years, because their parents relied exclusively on faith to heal them. 200 children with disease like diabetes and dehydration that could have been treated. 200 innocent children have been killed just in the last 15 years... Slow painful deaths might I add. In 1998 78 graves of children were found in Followers of Christ Church cementary. A following investigation should that children born into this church were 4.5 times more likely to die... think about it. Many of these diseases were easily treated, but once again faith resulted in their death from hard-headed parents.
I'm sure your all thinking well none of these people were really christians, because christians don't believing in killing people? Well, I'm sure those people who died would have their own opinions on that one, but it was the interpratation of christianity that caused these peoples deaths. Do you really think all those Native Americans would have died in Missionaries if the settlers weren't Christians? Maybe, maybe not. Would have all those people been hanged at the Salem witch trials for being with devil if that town was non-religious based. Again Maybe, Maybe not. Would the people in Irlend be fighting right now. I bet you all those children would not have died if it wasn't for their faith. How many wars are created by conflict of you religion with other religions. There are approx. 56 official wars going on in the world according to the Red Cross. How many of them are religion based? Ask your self. Well, I'm done. I've said more then enough to get me banned, but its the truth. :banned: Hopefully a few of you will read this before its all deleted by the moderates. Many of you are probably angered by this post.
But again its the truth your are part of an organization of murder and corruption. Not everything your religion has done is bad. There is much good such as the soup kitchen and Aid you give, but don't you think you could do that with out supporting an organization such as this.Could you Maintain you belief in God without supporting something that has evil roots and maintains those roots today. bye
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THE GREATEST CAUSE OF ATHEISM IS CHRISTIANS THEMSELVES. You can't force religion on people. That will only push them away. And if you believe that missionaries went over seas to press their religion on other people you are wrong. Both my parents were missionaries and as such I have lived most of my life, almost 15 years, in Argentina. They never pushed their way of life on anyone; instead they explained that All men have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. That God loves them. And because He loves them He sent his only beggotten Son to be whipped until His back no longer had skin, to be spat on, ridiculed, and beaten; until he was finally rejected by Israel as a blaphemous person and as such crusified on the cross, so that ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM SHALL NOT PARISH BUT HAVE EVER LASTING LIFE IN HEAVEN. If the Argentine people did not accept this my parents wouldn't forse the issue. Our job is not to save people souls. That is for GOD TO DO. OUR JOB IS TO EXPLAIN THE LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR THEM. then after they hear what we have to say they will make a desision. We can't make it for them. YES we are good at forcing people into our religion but we shouldn't be. Instead we should love them. If they don't accept God's free gift our job is still done. Their blood is no longer on our hands. it is on their own hands. People need to understand that.
My little rant is over now. Dude Chill out and find out what mission work is about. We are not part of a religion, we are part of a society of brothers (and sisters) who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that he took all the sins of those who believe in him upon himself when he died so that we could not be separated from God for eternity.
My little rant is over now. Dude Chill out and find out what mission work is about. We are not part of a religion, we are part of a society of brothers (and sisters) who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that he took all the sins of those who believe in him upon himself when he died so that we could not be separated from God for eternity.
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Marth
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in the missions in california made by spanards native americans were treated as slaves basically. so why the heck would people want join christianity if they knew others were being treated as slaves?? and man sure they were educated but like i said they treated them like slaves and made them do work and punished them if they tried to leave. why would it be a good idea to force christianity on someone? your reasoning skills are deplorable dude. also what does this have to do with video games?Billysplace said:
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TeRRaFLaMe
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Billysplace said:
Forcing Christianity on people does nothing but turn people away, and yes, I know this as a fact. Everywhere I look in forums where the topic of Christianity comes up, a lot of people say they hate Christians, or they're sick of Christians, because they're tired of having Christianity shoved down their throats.
I'm a Christian who believes that the majority of today's Christians have a distorted belief system, and your belief that forcing Christianity on others is twisted and outright WRONG.
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Ok good bob! What the heck is wrong with christians playing video games? NOTHING! I have video game i play them all the time. But that doesn't make me any worse than you(billysplace). If you REALLY want to start an argument with me about this then great..I LOVE arguing, but theres no way you could possibly prove that Video Games are wrong...*waits* Tell me when your ready!
Tell me when your ready!
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Haha, Don't you understand satire? I have no problem with video games. I've played quite few myself. Read more carefully. As far as forcing christianity on other people. It did work. Many of the african slaves became very religious. People can be broken and molded. But lets talk about all those nasty little sins your church did? How can you be part of a group that has so many deaths under its belt? Why not just be independent?
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Ok first my name is -Z- not z16. And I play many: Time Splitters 2 Lord of the rings, HALO, Super Smash Brothers Melee, etc. Mostly RPG's and FHS Games. (role playing games and first hand shooter) And what do african slaves have to do with anything? Your argument is scattered and weak..Think before you type.
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