Board Games for Catholics to Avoid

[Driven777]

Seriously you are not reading what I am saying carefully enough. Its not about being comfortable with something.

 

[on_the_hill]

I probably would if ever I got there,I would look at the general form and face but avert eyes from parts we normally cover out of respect and decency .

Because the Magesterium is sexually permissive and allows the indecent body parts to be on display.

 

[on_the_hill]

I’ve read enough to know that you’re trying to make the case that occultism exists where it doesn’t exist.

 

[Driven777]

Please provide me with an example.

 

[Greenfields]

You started a thread with a stilted question that you wanted to use to rally people to hate on games, and claimed that games you’re not comfortable with are occult. Fake news!

That’s curious,because I didn’t read it as that way At All.I think it was something I would talk about with my practicing siblings in a normal conversation,no aggression and pickiness ,no snarky comments or belittling.

The OP began a sensible question that had posters quickly running this way and that and not answering kindly .God bless.

 

[catholiclala]

Who goes to the Sistine Chapel and averts his eyes? People actually do this? They avert their eyes in one of the most sacred places in Catholicism?

I roll for disbelief.

Seriously, my chuckles are never ending right now. Are we being punked?

 

[Greenfields]

I’ve read enough to know that you’re trying to make the case that occultism exists where it doesn’t exist.

Etiquette might also be a factor.For myself (and the large family I come from) looking at nude images just isn’t part of who we are

 

[on_the_hill]

by avoiding nude images, board games with demonic themes, or obscene music/movies by reframing the debate to focus on nude art. .

Here’s the gist of it. I’m inferring that you’re assuming that these board games have demonic themes that are spiritually dangerous.

Maybe you’re not making that assumption. I don’t know.

 

[on_the_hill]

Nor mine. But there’s a difference between a definitive example of fine art and a nude photo on cheap paper.

 

[Atreju]

I’m curious to hear examples of what types of board games have demonic themes. Are we talking about the new DOOM board game?

 

[metalwolf]

I know there are some articles that state that dungeons and dragons isn’t evil. One is by a Christian with a media background,the other is by a former member of GAMA. The one by the former member of GAMA seems to have been lost to the pages of time.

http://www.trhickman.com/about-tracy/my-faith/

 

[Driven777]

Thank you for the reference. I’m saying that I personally choose avoid board games with demonic themes and that my reason for doing so is because of personal preference. I have zero interest in playing such a game when there are so many other games to choose from. It is a matter of prudence.

I don’t know how to quote people but your point is the following:

“You started a thread with a stilted question that you wanted to use to rally people to hate on games, and claimed that games you’re not comfortable with are occult. Fake news!”

My first comment was that you should read what I’m saying more carefully. I think that suffices because I’m not ‘rallying people to hate on games that I’m personally uncomforable with by claiming they are of the occult’

 

[on_the_hill]

Ok. I’ll answer seriously.

I am not a player of board games. I’m 51 years old and still don’t have the patience to sit in one place and focus long enough to play. It takes a lot of psychological energy for me to do it.

That being said, nearly all of my high school friends spent hours and hours playing D&D. I thought the threat of dying from boredom far outstripped any spiritual dangers or desensitization.

Other than that, I really doubt a person is in danger from board games unless they’re already having serious emotional-psychological problems.

 

[Driven777]

Thank you for the comment. I see where you are coming from.

The spiritual dangers that I refer to could be better summed up as simply desensitization to evil actions, grave sin, blasphemy, objects, symbols, etc.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

OP, we all have different things that trouble our conscience or that we just don’t enjoy doing. If you don’t like looking at naked people in art, that’s fine, don’t look at them. I personally enjoy some naked people in art, such as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling, St. Peter, and David, but there are plenty of other artists whose nudes I just find gross or unnecessary and even a small handful of paintings that I find to be a little too exciting in a sinful way for me to look at, so I avoid looking at those because it’s just going to lead to something I will regret.

Similarly, if you are not comfortable playing RPGs like D&D that have wizards in them or whatever, then don’t play. There are a whole lot of people who aren’t comfortable with RPGs for a whole variety of reasons ranging from “occult overtones” to “started spending too much time and money playing them”. I personally know a whole lot of people who can play RPGs every couple weeks, or even a couple times a year, and don’t buy an excessive amount of RPG books or other equipment, and the RPG has no effect on their life. Other people get a little too “into the pudding” as Tom Wolfe would say.

However, art and RPGs and such need to be separated from things like Ouija boards and reading Tarot cards that are bad/ risky for everybody because they truly open up portals to the demonic. It doesn’t matter if I can play on a Ouija board all day and feel perfectly fine, it’s still a bad thing to do. Just like looking at porn is a bad thing to do even if I personally find the porn to be completely unexciting and about on the level of reading an anatomy book.

You need to differentiate between things that are “bad for ALL Catholics” and things that are just bad for you personally because they bother you or trigger something in you that they don’t trigger in most other people.

 

[mrsdizzyd]

I probably would if ever I got there,I would look at the general form and face but avert eyes from parts we normally cover out of respect and decency .

I don’t think that is possible. The vaste majority of the figures are nude at least in part. It’s almost visual overload. There is hardly anywhere for the eye to rest.

 

[GospelOfMatthew]

Game of Thrones, which has extensive nudity and fantasy themes

GOT is porn

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I don’t think that is possible. The vaste majority of the figures are nude at least in part. It’s almost visual overload. There is hardly anywhere for the eye to rest.

Unless you’re some big VIP, you don’t get to spend all that long in the room looking anyway, and you’re quite a distance from the ceiling, so it’s not like you can really take in everyone’s “naughty bits”. It’s mostly impressive because you are under the whole of an incredibly detailed ceiling that is very large and just covered in lavish detail. If you want to actually dwell on aspects of the painting such as the nudes, you’d likely have to find some pictures in a book or online and look at them afterwards to see up close.

 

[Greenfields]

Greenfields:

I probably would if ever I got there,I would look at the general form and face but avert eyes from parts we normally cover out of respect and decency .

I don’t think that is possible. The vaste majority of the figures are nude at least in part. It’s almost visual overload. There is hardly anywhere for the eye to rest.

No great loss to me to never see it then

 

[edwest]

We are not to live like the world. The rules we follow were meant for our own good. Art doesn’t get a free pass.