Pretty much every Disney movie and every cartoon I ever watched as a kid had occultisitic characteristics and animist principles in them. Heck, a couple Bugs Bunny cartoons had both. Hasn’t affected me at all. Partly due to my understanding that it was all make believe and partly because my parents did their job in ensuring I knew what was make believe and what was real.
This should not come as a surprise, as every single pope has been a pokemon master.
Many people don’t know this, but after a man wins the papal election, he also has to win a series of pokemon battles before he is allowed to accept the office. He will face the Master of the Order of the Dominicans, the previous pope’s spiritual adviser, the Superior General of the Jesuits and the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. If the man elected happens to hold any of these positions, he will instead face the cardinal with the highest leveled starter. As most trainers get their first pokemon at around age ten and all of the cardinals and heads of religious orders are very old, these battles involve men who have be trainers for well over half a century. As a result, the battles are four hundred kinds of awesome!
Could you please post a link to this statement, if you have one? I did some searching and the best I can find is that it appears that, during JPII’s pontificate, a television network that had ties to the Italian Bishops Conference made a statement saying that Pokemon was not harmful. In the media, this instantly translated into a papal endorsement of the games (which is simply not the case):I’ve never heard anyone associate pokemon with the occult before. In 2000ish, JP2 said something along the lines of the game being okay because it was creative and encouraged friendship.
St. Louis Marie de Montfort:
St. Augustine:
We have to remember that the word “holy” comes from the meaning to “set apart” or “separate oneself”. It’s scary just how much consensus there is amoung Saints as to how few will actually make it to heaven. It, therefore, stands to reason that many “pleasures” that this world considers to be harmless can, in fact, be very dangerous to our eternal salvation.
If the various saints are right then there is no hope for the laity and no hope for the clergy. only a hundred in a billion maybe ever less than that will be saved. I just hope that they are wrong about that. through they probably aren’t. forums.catholic-questions.org/images/smilies/frown.gif
There’s always reason for great hope!
That does not eliminate the underlying logic that demonstrates why the assertions you made were questionable and they are not justified by red herring quotations (even if they are from saints).
I dunno.
I know the people in these said videos have the choice to put them up or not. I see not much harm if it was the dude’s choice to put it up I actually think it’s a better tool for teaching strategy. Then again, all RPGs are. Pokemon is somewhat unique being that it is the first of so-called ‘monster tamer’ games. A browse through Bulbapedia also gives one a glimpse of how deep gameplay can be in terms of creating a Pokemon team that is entirely your own! w
Very true. I didn’t think of that right away. When I worked in a video game store I got more parents asking me for a game to help promote reading than promote strategy.
You are indeed correct about that.
Strategy RPGs tend to have varying amounts of popularity per game.Very true. I didn’t think of that right away. When I worked in a video game store I got more parents asking me for a game to help promote reading than promote strategy.
You still have not made your point. Four basic elemental tropes (Fire, Water, Earth, Air) are used in fantasy all the time. I use it all the time! No sign of any occult force here.
amen to that. Not that I have anything against the Puritans though. I think they were pretty cool and they sure loved the bible. Almost everybody born during King James’s rule had a name from the old testament. Or maybe I just liked the Solomon Kane stories too much.