Is playing violent video games a sin?

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minion said:
lol

Interesting how we can justify playing a game bashing our faith

I’m okay with violent games, but not faith bashing like AC most definitely does. Which kids play. I’m not really surprised anymore a kind of lazy, sarcastic atheism is more prominent amongst gamers considering the subject matter they’re fed.
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Games that glorify violence are not good either (Like GTA).
 
minion said:
lol

Interesting how we can justify playing a game bashing our faith
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You clearly did not read my post. At no point did the game bash Catholicism.
I’m okay with violent games, but not faith bashing like AC most definitely does. Which kids play. I’m not really surprised anymore a kind of lazy, sarcastic atheism is more prominent amongst gamers considering the subject matter they’re fed.
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Really? Could you point to specific examples from the game?
 
minion said:
Sure.

You mean like this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkii8qLcJ24

Oh right, Borgia Pope. Now it’s okay. I’ll try to remember that next time I read another Church bashing post on a games forum.
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Since you did not read my post carefully enough, I am quoting it for your convenience:
Myself:
Uhh…I have played all of Assassin’s Creed II. We have some factual issues here:
  1. AC, the first game in the franchise, has nothing to do with the Pope or Catholicism.
  2. ACII is but one game of the franchise. Even the expansions, Revelations and Brotherhood, only tangentially involve religious figures.
  3. You are not killing the Pope qua Pope, you are killing him as the leader of the Templars, which have been secularized.
  4. ACIII, which I just finished, is set in the Revolutionary War. Almost every conceivable historical figure at the time is either a Templar or an Assassin or works with or for one of those two groups. In the same way, the developers wanted a Renaissance theme. The Church clearly has to be involved because the games are all about associating the “orders” with prominent historical figures. The Church happened to be the establishment at the time, and the games consistently pit the lone protagonist against the powerful establishment, whether Templars in the Church (the Borgias and associates) or the Templars in the Patriot and Loyalist forces.
I am not saying that anyone should feel comfortable with the game, but I am saying that viewing it as a cheap way to knock the Church is misleading at best. Ubisoft even has a disclaimer at the beginning of each game.
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Perhaps you can actually respond to it if you post again, instead of wasting time making snide remarks that have already been addressed.
 
Baelor said:
Since you did not read my post carefully enough, I am quoting it for your convenience:

Perhaps you can actually respond to it if you post again, instead of wasting time making snide remarks that have already been addressed.
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I think the OP was mainly asking if these violent games are a sin. Assassins Creed is violent but NOT sinful, BUT it may lead anyone to near “occasions of sin”. Why would anyone want to put themselves in that predicament?
 
davyvfr said:
I think the OP was mainly asking if these violent games are a sin. Assassins Creed is violent but NOT sinful, BUT it may lead anyone to near “occasions of sin”. Why would anyone want to put themselves in that predicament?
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I agree. The AC discussion was a sub-topic of sorts.
 
davyvfr,

Clear your private message box so I can respond to your pm, which is relevant to this thread.
 
davyvfr said:
I think the OP was mainly asking if these violent games are a sin. Assassins Creed is violent but NOT sinful, BUT it may lead anyone to near “occasions of sin”. Why would anyone want to put themselves in that predicament?
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Many games can become a near occasion of sin, and though I never played the game myself, Assassin’s Creed is no exception.
 
Baelor said:
Since you did not read my post carefully enough, I am quoting it for your convenience:

Perhaps you can actually respond to it if you post again, instead of wasting time making snide remarks that have already been addressed.
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Snide remark? No, this is a snide remark:

gamespot.com//news/xbox-one-will-not-launch-on-november-8-report-6413769?

Watch the video at :15

I see the church get bashed all the time in the game industry, and seeing a catholic actually look past the obvious in the AC2 video and ignore the consequences of gamers exposed to this as though it is “just a story” with no impact is despair-invoking.
 
minion said:
Snide remark? No, this is a snide remark:

gamespot.com//news/xbox-one-will-not-launch-on-november-8-report-6413769?

Watch the video at :15

I see the church get bashed all the time in the game industry, and seeing a catholic actually look past the obvious in the AC2 video and ignore the consequences of gamers exposed to this as though it is “just a story” with no impact is despair-invoking.
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Minion, I cannot discuss anything with you when you are being irrational. I already posted a response with plenty of explanation. You have chosen to ignore it completely. That is your choice, but that choice is what is despair-invoking.
 
I have sort of made my decision. Its probably not final but i think that He wouldn’t want us to play games like GTA or Assasians Creed. I respect other people’s opinion about that but i just can’t see how God would want me to play a game where killing so closely resembles the actual killing. I will stick to playing games like Age of Empires or Runescape, because there killing is nothing that simmiliar to the actual killing and it is really not about killing at all, it is more about just beating your opponent or training your skills against a “poorely” designed computer which just little resembles the actual life person. Again i respect other people’s views.
 
With all due respect to other people’s opinions, I think that playing video games in general could be/(is?) sinful (depending on certain conditions) due to the damage done to people’s brains/bodies by playing those games. I’ve heard of health-related problems caused by playing video games. I have also learned that many electronics emit small amounts of electromagnetic radiation that can cause health problems (including cancer) after a long time of exposure (generally years). Video games can also cause learning problems. Anyways, say you grow up playing video games and you play them into your adult life, it’s quite possible that it’s going to have some bad effects on your health. This isn’t exclusive to video games though. CELL PHONES, for example, have been noted as a cause of cancer due to the radio waves that they emit.

Learn more about the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation and the like here: best-emf-health.com/dangers-of-electromagnetic-radiation.html

I need to do more research/learn more about the effects of this stuff, but I hope you all kind of get what I’m talking about and recognize that there is clearly something worth investigating here. We live in a world where big business is all about the money and products are not necessarily tested enough before they are released. It wouldn’t surprise me if, in the future, certain electronics (like video games and cell phones) are viewed in the same way that cigarets and tobacco products are today: both are/were at one time extremely popular yet harmful to health.
 
Student316 said:
With all due respect to other people’s opinions, I think that playing video games in general could be/(is?) sinful (depending on certain conditions) due to the damage done to people’s brains/bodies by playing those games. I’ve heard of health-related problems caused by playing video games. I have also learned that many electronics emit small amounts of electromagnetic radiation that can cause health problems (including cancer) after a long time of exposure (generally years). Video games can also cause learning problems. Anyways, say you grow up playing video games and you play them into your adult life, it’s quite possible that it’s going to have some bad effects on your health. This isn’t exclusive to video games though. CELL PHONES, for example, have been noted as a cause of cancer due to the radio waves that they emit.

Learn more about the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation and the like here: best-emf-health.com/dangers-of-electromagnetic-radiation.html

I need to do more research/learn more about the effects of this stuff, but I hope you all kind of get what I’m talking about and recognize that there is clearly something worth investigating here. We live in a world where big business is all about the money and products are not necessarily tested enough before they are released. It wouldn’t surprise me if, in the future, certain electronics (like video games and cell phones) are viewed in the same way that cigarets and tobacco products are today: both are/were at one time extremely popular yet harmful to health.
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