Pope criticizes video games
Okay. Things don’t seem to be looking particularly cheery in the land of video games right now, as fans of the hobby and industry now have another heavy-weight opposer. No, we’re no longer talking about another member of the German Parliament who wants another video game ban, but someone who is no less than Pope Benedict XVI himself. Talk about a major bummer.
In his speech for the church’s World Communications Day, the Pope has the following to say about video games:
Any trend to produce programs and products – including animated movies and video games – which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behaviour or the trivilization of human sexuality is a perversion, all the more repulsive when these programs are directed at children and adolescents
Sigh. It’s Dungeons and Dragons all over again, we tell you. So what, if our level 28, Drow Elf, Chaotic Good, bard-sorcerer worships Olidamarra and makes occasional tributes to Lolth? And we own all editions of the Monster Manual? That doesn’t make us bad people, does it?
To quote from an old EGM issue, “It’s more than you can shake your +5 Mace of Disruption at.”
Okay. Things don’t seem to be looking particularly cheery in the land of video games right now, as fans of the hobby and industry now have another heavy-weight opposer. No, we’re no longer talking about another member of the German Parliament who wants another video game ban, but someone who is no less than Pope Benedict XVI himself. Talk about a major bummer.
In his speech for the church’s World Communications Day, the Pope has the following to say about video games:
Any trend to produce programs and products – including animated movies and video games – which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behaviour or the trivilization of human sexuality is a perversion, all the more repulsive when these programs are directed at children and adolescents
Sigh. It’s Dungeons and Dragons all over again, we tell you. So what, if our level 28, Drow Elf, Chaotic Good, bard-sorcerer worships Olidamarra and makes occasional tributes to Lolth? And we own all editions of the Monster Manual? That doesn’t make us bad people, does it?
To quote from an old EGM issue, “It’s more than you can shake your +5 Mace of Disruption at.”
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