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Video Games Are Terrorists, Claims Christian Post
by Chris Faylor, Aug 06, 2008 1:35pm PDTDo not be alarmed, but according to The Christian Post, there are terrorists in your house right now.
"You may be surprised at how many 'terrorists' there are in your home right now. Video games, computers, cell phones, teen magazines, music, TV, & movies: all of which fall under the umbrella of entertainment and all are likely perpetrators," wrote columnist Ron Luce, pictured left.
"Every time we let unsupervised media into our homes and into our kids' minds, we have invited a terrorist into our home," the author of the recent novel Re-Create: Building a Culture in Our Homes That Is Stronger Than the Culture Deceiving Our Kids justified.
Luce argued that letting children experience unsupervised video games and movies is equivalent to letting "a known thief and sexual predator of young girls" spend time with your family, as "these modern occupiers of time dispense a river of polluted entertainment riddled with the same values driving the visitor at your front door."
"Although we consider [movies, television and music] entertainment, they are actually infotainment," he concluded, noting that they "impart values and information about the world, maybe information about life, that your kids are not ready to process and absorb."
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“Luce argued that letting children experience unsupervised video games and movies is equivalent to letting "a known thief and sexual predator of young girls" spend time with your family,”
Shouldn’t it be children, not just girls?
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Being someone who worked at Luce's organization for a couple years I can confidently say Luce likes the hyperbole but is otherwise a genuinely smart and good guy. So unless the guy has gotten completely whacky in the last 5 years the comparison to terrorists is likely in a larger context. He was always making comparisons - some were extremely good, others, not so much. I think the choice of terrorist was certainly a poor choice. Too charged to make for a good metaphor.
Also Luce isn't one of those people who sits at a distance and just screams and yells about things he's never seen first hand (sup Fox News + Mass Effect), he regularly would get tickets to concerts, movies, etc to see what was going on in pop culture first hand. I can't say I always agreed with his conclusions every time, but he's not the sort of guy who falls apart at that fact, One of his right hand guys in fact *loved* when people had a differing point of view. Showed you were thinking for yourself instead of just taking what he said as absolute truth.
Anyway, terrorists is way too much, but I think there is certainly a point in the last paragraph up there. At a certain age it can be hard to filter stuff - it can mess with a kid's sense of the world. In that sense I think it of course makes absolute sense to filter entertainment choices at a young age. It's called parenting. I don't think he's anti-games in general by any stretch of the imagination. I think I played more Counterstrike and Starcraft against my coworkers at his organization than anywhere in my life. There was never a problem with it other than people never leaving after hours and coming late the next day. =P
I think there could be more to the story, and he lives in Garden Valley, TX (out by Tyler). It'd be interesting if Shacknews jumped out there and interviewed him and Dave Hasz (the guy I mentioned before) both. Hasz is certainly a bit more pragmatic and less hyperbolic than Luce. And his brother even more so (who when I knew `em was gaming quite a bit).
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Eating pie is the equivalent of letting a terrorist rape your daughter.
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And while that is a tough question to answer your eight year old, throw in the fact that you are trying to raise your family in a Christ-like manner, and the question becomes: Why is my son asking me this in the first place, and are the things I allowed in my house the only source to which he asked his question? Even if it isn't, does he think I condone it because I laughed at the joke relating to Porn?
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Post Christian Claims Terrorists Are Games Video.
Satanic moral of the story:
Stay away from FMV. It's the devil's work.
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Note: This is only aimed at the evangelists who constantly preach to accept their religion. Not every Christian.
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But this guys email in nowhere to be seen.
Terrrorism is using violence to achieve goals, now remind how that has anything to do with a video game?
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Please, next time just post some ASCII art or something. :\
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I am religious in no way, but I do believe young children should be supervised anytime they watch TV or play video games. If you are too busy to watch them, don't let them play or watch at all. TV isn't the babysitter while Mommy pulls tricks in the bedroom and Daddy is porkin' the secretary.
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This is the kind of thing that I am COMPLETELY against. To say that your kids aren't ready to absorb something means that YOU are not ready for your kids to absorb something. Every kid grows at a different pace. Parents like to hold on to that idealistic concept of innocence. They think that the longer their kids remain 'innocent', the better off they'll be. This is an illusion made in the mind, and is often damaging to young adults. I'm not saying don't protect your kids, I'm simply saying let kids grow on their own -- if they want to know about sex or violence... explain it to them. Don't hold children back because YOU'RE not ready to deal with it. You don't stop learning just because you have kids -- learn to open up to them and trust them with the truth.
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I think the fact that he intentionally uses THE sensational word of the times for attention-grabbing devalues whatever point he was trying to make.
Oh, but here I am wrong. He must know his audience, it probably only makes his article more effective.