[" It is a game. It is not real. Practices of summoning demons in a video game dont reflect actual rituals. It makes no sense to me why you would be concerned./.."]
This poster either knows nothing of spiritual warfare, or is an enemy provocateur. That video game is an occult object, designed from the outset to attract specific devils for specific purposes. Get it out of your house now; do not make contact with it again; destroy it if possible. Repent before the Lord for bringing it into your son's life, plead the blood of Jesus Christ, and ask him to restore the territory you had ignorantly given to Satan. Do not be afraid.
This is spiritual warfare and your son's eternal destiny is at stake.
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Be sure to starve, freeze, cut, burn, and flog yourself too, because it repels demons, and gets you the precious attention you crave. Smoke crack while you do so.
Dude, I play lots of games with the premise you describe, (Pokemon, Megami Tensei, etc.) and demons have never been attracted to me.
Ah, MegaTen. How do I love thee? Dark, often thought provoking narratives and themes on the nature of man, hours of bastard hard gameplay that satisfies my lust for a challenge, the ability to make religious fanatics shit their pants in five minutes or less...
Though I will admit, the evokers from Persona 3 were more than slightly disturbing.
I was curious about this supposedly offensive video game, and...
OP:
> I recently found my son playing a video game called "Persona 3." I was doing house chores while he was playing it in the living room. It seemed like a child friendly and educational game at first. The characters were at a school and learning math. The next thing I know, they were shooting themselves in the head!
...and so on and so forth. This is totally a troll. Anecdotal stuff that the poster just happened to witness (right...) and randomly picked a game that was guaranteed to offend the fundies.
Still, despite of the obvious provocation, the thread got twenty-one pages of this bullshit going and at this point it doesn't even matter what games are being discussed. Poe's law at work.
They've dumbed down demon summoning when I was a kid, back then it was all:
You find yourself standing inside a pentagram, candles flicker at it's edges. What do you want to do?
Now it's just Press B to summon Satan.
I especially like the comment on that thread that says to tell the boy (if he is over 18) to either get rid of the game or get out.
Kicking your child out of your home over a video game. Are you fucking serious?
I'll say it again; I am so glad I left christianity behind years ago. I have enough to concern myself with, I don't need the paranoid delusion that evil lurks in everything waiting to lead my family into hell.
" That video game is an occult object, designed from the outset to attract specific devils for specific purposes. "
Can you exorcise those demons if you play the left behind video game on the device?
Wow, the game is "Persona 3" which if the parents actually took any time to learn anything about it is a typical rpg where the players are trying to stop evil being that pray on peoples minds.
The only person in the thread who is not clinically delusional who says "hang on a minute, its just a game! Its not real occultism!" is shot down because they don't do that crazy fundtard thing where they end every sentence with a bible quote because clearly free will means never thinking for yourself or actually examining the real world around you.
The whole thread really is amazing. The people who shouldn't be playing the game are the posters because clearly they cannot keep their fantasy/imaginary life seperate from reality.
I'll take "Satanic Panic Of The 80's" for $1000, please Alex.
This stuff was stupid when folks were blaming Dungeons & Dragons for turning kids into Satan worshipping spell casters. The Jack Chick tract was hilarious (aren't they all, though?) and idiocy like this just drives gamers further from their nonsense.
I'm guessing the original commenter knows exactly as much about "spiritual warfare" as lawrenceb.
Which is to say, nothing at all.
That right, be afraid of everything. Don't go anywhere, even church. Don't even eat or breathe as Satan may have placed demons in the food and air. Do run around blathering like an idiot. Remember, your son's eternal embarrassment is at stake.
I do find it kind of hilarious that in a series filled with games about summoning and controlling demons, the poster managed to pick one of the exactly two titles in the entire series in which there are no demons, the player never summons demons etc.
Here we have the 2 great contestants, God and the Devil!
Both contestants have limitless powers, the abilities to create and annihilate universes at a whim - yet these 2 omnipotent beings must resort to using video games to carve out territory for some reason. Makes complete sense to me, how can anyone question the logic behind this?
In video games I can contol a 9 foot long sword with one hand...
Save for about two voices of reason, that entire thread is insane. What is it with certain creepy Christians wanting to burn everything they don't like...? Bunch of pyromaniacs.
Video games can be designed to be scary, yes. That does not mean they "attract devils."
Do not be afraid
No, be afraid, be very, very afraid. You are receiving advice from a delusional paranoid. There's no telling what he might tell you to do next--burn your books, your house, your own son. Cut all contact with him immediately.
Summoning demons in a video game? Let's check which game, lemme guess, Shin Megami Tensei/Persona? *checks topic* Yep, what else?
Yes, demons have nothing better to do than hang around possessing an obviously occult video game like a MegaTen game. Why don't demons make themselves less obvious, like, I dunno, possess a copy of Left Behind Eternal Forces or for maximum exposure, a Christian rock album or some dumb Christian "self-help" book? Why are demons drawn to overtly occult things, why don't they hide where you least expect them?
If your a high enough level you can summon Satin, would love to see some heads explode watching that.
Pretty sure you save the world from the Devil in the first Megami Tensei game, in Persona 2 you fight Hitler as all conspiracy theorys become real.
The games use mythology from around the world and likely have better morals then the Bible.
Ah, the 13th century; an interesing period in history, but I wouldn't like to live there, unlike this bunch of lunatics who apparently do.
@freako104
Telling people who can't distinguish fact from fantasy about Silent Hill is just cruel. Demons or not, that stuff will screw you up. This message brought to you by someone who still has trouble sleeping, 8 years after playing the first game. :P
Dammit, fundies, stop getting my hopes up! I want a Persona of my own too and I hate having my dreams smashed to bits by cold hard reality!
Ah well... guess I'll just go back to my Persona play-by-post games.
"This is spiritual warfare and your son's eternal destiny is at stake."
For fuck's sake, nobody tell lawrenceofarserabia here about "JK Rowling's Book of Spells" for the PlayStation 3, lest his head explodes.
Avada Kedavara! >:D
The whole thread is worth reading for an insight into the psychology of religious mania. Someone makes a few sensible comments about how video games aren't demonic and kids don't necessarily imitate everything. He's immediately jumped on and told to back up everything he says by Bible quotes, and that "Self is enemy".
These are grown-up people who are afraid, actually afraid, of a Japanese video game.
Isn't Persona 3 the one where the characters summon their Personas by "shooting" themselves in the head with gun-shaped summoning trinkets? I can see how parents may find that disturbing , but seriously... I don't intend to reproduce, but should it ever happen, I'm pretty sure that I would able to trust any spawn of mine not to put a bullet through his/her brain just to emulate a frigging game! (And if i really thought that I had a psychotic/suicidal/too-dumb-to-live kid on my hands, I'd take some actually useful mesures, instead of taking his games away: you know, making sure to lock away whatever guns and medicines there may be in the house, get him some therapy, that kind of things...)
As for the kid the OP is talking about, I'd encourage him to present the Personas as gardian angels, and to point out that according to the Babble itself, angels are more Eldritch Abominations material than winged humanoids (my favorite factoid is that the name of one class of angels means "the living ones", implying that the others... aren't) Might even get the parents to crack their Bile open :P
Of course, he may want to avoid mentioning that quite often, in the MegaTen universe, God Is Evil and you can kill him. Not that Lucifer is necessarily better...
Whatever video game this might be, this person in question is being ridiculously absurd. So, video games are tools of the devil? Is that what I should be ascertaining from this?
"Aww lord, please forgive meh for my sinful ways. I didn't know playin' Super Mario Bros. and EarthBound was against your wishes!"
Seriously, videogames? No videogame has ever harmed anyone.
Except maybe "Shadow of the Colossus". It will haunt me forever... ;-;
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