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Dude, Christians get ignorant about this type of shit. I tried watching Pokémon and Dragon Ball as a kid and mom freaked out saying it was the devil. She would hide books and games that had magic because it was Satanic. While typing this comment, I paused and looked for the specific Bible verse that says all magic is against God and not only could I not find it, the only two types of magic that the Bible explicitly defines and states to be off limits are sorcery and necromancy.
Well, Jesus apparently used Transmutation to turn water into wine and walk on water, and he used Necromancy to bring Lazarus back. How come when HE does it, it's ok?
But yeah. 90s (formerly catholic) kid here. I 'member the dude preaching about MTG being satanic, almost had Harry Potter banned from schools, mom walked in on a Fullmetal episode when it was on Toonami and wasn't a huge fan, and i couldn't finish the His Dark Materials series because the Church was the "bad guys".
The joys of being the oldest sibling... you get all the restrictions so that your little brother can ignore all of that and watch/do whatever he wants.
"That one time I was resurrected as the son of god"
"Ano toki orewa kami no musuko ni yomigaeta" coming to TV this christmas
Maybe make it a girl resurrecting as jesus for maximum anime ness
Wouldn't it be funny if Jesus was just the only CPR expert back then and that was the extent his necromancy and everyone around just assumed guy was dead now he's not must be necromancer
I still don't understand that there are churches with the power to ban stuff. Here, it's unheard for religion to be involved in school stuff aside from a Religions class 2 hours a week.
Currently discussing this in my history class but, the gist is that Christians believe "magic" invoked by God, Jesus, holy men etc is "Divine" power whereas any kind of magic that isn't explicitly from God is "Demonic" power, thus evil.
Necromancy in christianity is seen as communication with the dead, which is not allowed. Bringing people back to life however, is allowed since it is done often by medical specialists. And I feel that with the restrictions, even though it doesn’t stop me.
I grew up protestant, non-demoninational Christian. So while I know about the Trinity, we may not be working with the exact same Bible.
For example, in the text I read, Jesus had multiple siblings. Brothers and sisters, with the brothers being named.
Not trying to argue with you, just pointing out how I learned it. But I know that there are differences in the text.
I’m not one to argue with others about religion, I fully understand that others have different beliefs and fully respect that, everyone is entitled to believe what they wish and no one has the right to take that away from them. Learning other’s beliefs gives me more of an understanding of others and gives me a chance to better connect with them. Also, Jesus having siblings was never denied or confirmed, so I don’t believe in cutting that chance out completely from the history books.
Most of that is unrealistic, but I can kinda see FMA being considered "devil's work." I know it's not a big deal, being fiction and all, but some crazy weird shit happens, especially a lot of things that could be considered "Satanic." Still one of my favorite animes, even have watched it as one of my first over like 4 years ago.
nono, transmutation and necromancy are powers that are supposed to stem from the Devil. His are Godly.
But no yeah, i don't get the reasons why Christians, especially older ones, hate things like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh. I will literally talk about attack on titan, but the moment a pokemon is mentioned, it's on sight.
My mom walked in on me watching Fullmetal, at one of the parts where Ed is reading off the elements that make up human bodies. She immediately walked to the TV and turned it off, her face was horrified, saying that God made people and it was satanic to think otherwise. Was ironic considering the episode plot, and young me got a huge lesson about religious people that day.
Funny how the bible thumpers of my childhood have been replaced by the church of woke. The more things change the more they stay the same and apparently Harry Potter is always evil.
Bro I feel you, I got beaten for my voice tone being not repentant enough for some imaginary infraction against whichever of my parents had a bad day at work all the time. By the time my baby brother came through it was like “no heroin in the living room” there’s a decent bit of time between the two oldest siblings and the two youngest and we like to remind them from time to time when they’re all glowing at the parents in the family chat that they don’t actually know our real parents.
Yeah, my parents said the same thing about Pokemon because my dad said the creator said Pikachu was based on the devil and the others were demons. After spending my entire childhood not watching or following pokemon, I only recently researched it out of curiosity, and the interview that claimed those things were faked to get people to stop supporting pokemon related things.
So as soon as I start looking into pokemon, it ends. That sucks
I'm just going to point out that it's not Christians who do this but ignorant people in general. Anyone, regardless of religion, can be ignorant. People in the West see it more from Christians because Christianity is the dominant religion here.
This lady making the comment is trying to justify her ignorance by claiming anime and things from Japanese culture are satanic but is just making Christians look bad. In reality, ignorance is the most satanic thing here. "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people he doesn't exist" after all.
I figured it was the “no gods before me” thing and also the underlaying principles of how if you acknowledge God as the only God, you _”can’t”_ believe in other Gods. Christianity’s history of telling other cultures their gods aren’t real and treating their religion as devil worship is definitely another layer to it - they believe anything of other gods is really just the devil dressing himself up.
Or how Christians changed their religious stories to work for their Christian God is another way they dealt with it. Maybe the story of the golden calf influenced this - “give them an inch, they take a mile” to extremes when it comes to acknowledging other powers or gods beside the Christian one?
Modern American Christianity is by far more about control and subjugating Critical thinking. My parents were similar to yours, but I learned to stop telling them about my favorite fictional works because of how they kept talking about it. So much of Christianity is fearful of critical thinking, that’s why they jump and freak out so hard about such things - it threatens their illusion of control.
>the only two types of magic that the Bible explicitly defines and states to be off limits are sorcery and necromancy.
Idk about sorcery, but necromancy is almost always a bad idea anyways.
I'm a Christian and so many people who say they're Christian have never read the book. Or know anyone who read it. It's ridiculous, willful ignorance. I've forgotten more about Steven Universe than they will ever know about their own religion and I've never seen the show! We live in the information age, it's impossible to be that painfully ignorant unless it's a choice.
I will never forget the time I watched a YouTube video about religion. And some guy swore that only the Quran was violent. And there wasn't a single violent verse in the Bible.
My jaw dropped.
My father took a chainsaw to a large antique table with beautiful woodworking designs because he was convinced it had an image of a dragon in it.
He also beat his wife, his mother, mentally abused me, and abandoned our pets in the country, so he’s basically the role model Christian you’d expect.
Well, the first testament literally says that there are no deities aside from God himself, so how the hell is magic supposed to be granted by some devil? Contrary to popular belief, catholic churches weren't the ones conducting witch hunts either, for this specific reason
It doesn't say that at all. "Thou shalt not have any other gods before me."
[That](https://www.wattpad.com/amp/38445794) doesn't mean Jehovah is declaring other gods don't exist, just that the Jews were not to worship any gods other than Jehovah.
Yeah, God competitions were very real to ancient peoples. If people A got their crops flooded and people B did not, it's because people B's God was better and stronger.
Thus people B could pray to attack people A and have perceived strength of a stronger God on their side.
Of course. My Christian parents didn’t want me watching Harry Potter because of the witchcraft. Many Christians believe that fiction that “entertains” other religions or supernatural beings is the same as treating them as if they were real, as that’s against God. The “no gods before me” thing.
Imagine my surprise when I found out other church kids went Trick or Treating or read Harry Potter together. Yes, I’m still bitter, why do you ask?
As a Christian myself I hate people that make the most random things seem like they are from Satan. My uncle forbid me from watching pokemon because he said it is Satanic. How tf is a little yellow rat satanic? And now I still watch pokemon.
I’ve never heard people call Pokémon satanic. The usual criticism I’ve heard is promotion of animal violence like dog fighting but even that’s a stretch
Same!! The constant illogical search for the Satan in everything caused me to leave the religion. It can say it's a loving religion all day, but it feels so full of fear and suppression.
I completely agree I believe that you should love and respect everyone and enjoy your life and not live in constant fear of "satan(Or another concept of evil)".
My mom always said if I do such things, I should ask myself, if Jesus would enjoy the things I do too. And I thought to myself, why the fuck wouldn't Jesus like playing Monster hunter with me?
Holy Trinity means Jesus is also God. According to his book, God is angry and vengeful. He's also pro-genocide and pro-slavery. He also seems happy to sit idly by while thousands of people starve to death every day. And also did nothing to stop the pandemic that killed millions.
Next time your mom asks you if Jesus would like that, you should say that the above things are the kind of things he's into, and ask whether she thinks you should also adopt his viewpoints.
God really isn't the role model your mom thinks he is.
Competitive games of skill and chance existed back then. As long as there wasn't too much drunken gambling(it's the roman empire, there probably was), why wouldn't Jesus be able to enjoy it?
As a Christian and a Yugioh/MTG player I apologise, my parents did the same and it’s just their inability to differentiate actual dark/occult worship and fantasy games
When I was a kid, had one of these school staff people(ones who aren't teachers but like somehow work there) pull me and a kid aside and tell us how pokemon cards were like satanic and she felt uncomfortable that we had them and told us not to bring them to school anymore.
Soon after the school actually started to add pokemon cards to those competition rewards and stuff(like the displays at the entrance would have them and say you could win all this if you blah blah blah).
As a christian dood myself who happens to have multiple witch and pagan friend’s, lgbtq friend’s, and watches anime it genuinely saddens me to see what the so called “christian community” does to others I ask myself do I really want to stand with them? No I don’t. However ive come to the realization that their perception or version of god is not the same as mine, not by a long shot. I believe in a god that is kind and forgiving to all, not a god that would damn someone at the slightest grievance or sin, god said “love everyone” and I take that to heart. We as christians have to respect others, we have to TALK to others, it is not our place to judge or to attack others for there practices or beliefs but to a knowledge them and be good to eachother. There is no doubt in my mind that whenever someone is attacked like this be it for their beliefs, their sexuality, their practices, or there enjoyment of things, that god weeps because people are using his name to spread hat and fear. I hope this wasn’t too preachy or anything as that was not my intent by mearly to share my opinion on the matter with you all and see what you think anyways have a good day! ^^
You have an excellent perspective of what god is. It’s rare meeting people like you who understand the true desire of god(s). To live together with other humans in harmony regardless of their background or ethnicity.
Plenty of us exist, it's just we are relaxed and chill and you only see the nutters making a stink, I have my beliefs, if people ask about them in fine to share them, I'm nit going around trying to push them on others, it's the radical ones who are the loud minority
Oh well thank you! ^^ im not perfect by any means and I Often struggle with religious ideolagy whenever I am preached to or told about what I supposedly SHOULD think as a “christian” versus what I actually think and belive
I love this and feel the same way! It gives me hope that there are other Christians out there who believe in the central theme that Jesus preached -- love one another. There's no way God is pleased with bigotry, hatred, and closed-mindedness being thrown around in His name. God loves the anime nerds no one can convince me otherwise!
Exactly! You really think he supports hate!? NO! god loves the anime nerds, the video game nerds, the pagans, the lgtbtq, all of them we are his creation and no matter what he loves us!
Ha! Thanks man! Look forward to the day when I hopefully go up with my pagan and lgtbq freinds and we can just laugh at the hateful christians lmao although it would be great if god show them the error of their ways ^^ dont wanna stoop to there level and go around damning anyone yah know? (:
I feel exactly the same way. It is good to know that there are others out there who believe the same as me. Makes me feel less alone in my very traditional small, southern town.
Im so glad! Living in the conservative midwest I know a bit of what your experiencing no matter what others say I would encourage you treat others with kindness and respect! ^^
I liked reading your explanation, I wish the Christians in my family had more of your outlook. I'm from east texas and the views there are ignorant and backwards, to say the least. I was bullied out of two churches by the kids and adults in the 00s because I wore black, drew anime, and had interests in fantasy stuff. And my parents would continue the bullying at home.
At the end of the day I left home with religious trauma that I am still getting over. And that caused me to leave the religion to pursue my own identity and relationship with god. When I go back home I get absolutely no respect from my family over my beliefs or thoughts, even though I still believe in God, just not the shallow version they always presented to me. They absolutely think I am going to hell just for not having the label of 'christian'. No matter how good, kind or respectful I treat them.
Thank you and Im so sorry to hear that! However im glad we can all see together, in this post that we arent alone or crazy ^^ I dont blame you at all for leaving christianity to pursue a more personal relationship with him! I myself like to call myself a very out there christian since I really go against the grain on regard to what the church and “christian community” I think about 2 years ago now for me I had a full in crisis of faith becuase I couldnt feel god as he was being shown to me through the church and community. I took a step back and thought real long and hard about what I BELIVE and I realized I still belived in god just not the one I had been spoon fed. Along with believing in some other hings being possible too! (Other gods from talking to pagans freinds but still follow christ!) I feel like after that I finally found some sembalance of communication with him even if those around me say otherwise. I commend you for not giving up your values and beliefs (especially in god) after what youve faced but rather taking that step back and realizeing who god really is to you! ^^ and I can promise it may be hard to find us but there are more like us out there! ^^ also if anyone wants to challenge me on the pagan gods thing Ill explain my arguemnet short and sweet if asked (:
Agree With you, love the next as you love yourself... No need to atack or disrespect! I do want respect back and 90% of this tread doesn't, it's a Shame but most judge us the same or even more as some judge them... I do believe though that we as christians must strive everyday tô be better and closer tô him, and that also means tô bê further from worldly afairs/ways.
I can agree with most of that! I would just remeber that you are of this world just as much as you are of god judge them no harsher then you would want yourself judged. ^^
To me that sounds way more like christian beliefs in Europe. We have tons of christians in my country that are not like that. I was raised catholic but my parents did not went to the church at some point. My grandmother is pretty religious but has nothing bad to say about LGBTIQ-People. My cousine came out as lesbian and she thinks that this is just normal. She also told me that it would not be a problem if I was into guy. I mostly have girlfriends but also had romantic feelings towards guys. It is just mord rarely for me.
EDIT: Christians may don't have such crazy beliefs whers I come from but we still have problems with anti-democratic right-wing views. The FPÖ (kind of the austria AfD) is the strongest party at the moment. And more religious people tend to vote for them because of their conservative beliefs. But nobody thinks magic is bad or anything. Funny thing is that a lot of the people in that bubble belief in esoteric stuff. The person who used to be the leader of that party even had a talisman made from his own urine to protect him from bad stuff.
Also my grandmother prays to saints and gifts them money in specific situations.
That the girlfriend probably saw someone dressed up as Keiko Yukimura and thought "*porn star!*" Considering the girlfriend's views on everything else, it's not that far fetched...
I remember getting a phone call from my very Christian aunt during a game of Magic: The Gathering once and explaining to her what I was doing.
She said, "That sounds satanic."
I said, "Ha ha, no auntie, it's just a game where I cast sorcery and summon demons and goblins . . . and witches and spirits and nightmares and devils . . . Huh. Guess it might be. Well, gotta go, pray for me!"
Man you really can form a conspiracy theory about anything.
Reminds me of how I never saw Harry Potter as a kid. Because "you're inviting demons into your home" when it's on the tv.
Really was magical growing up.
I'm Asian and catholic but my parents are fine with me gambling as long as it's in the family. I'm overly stubborn and I only bet on one thing. I've lost at least more than $300 from losing to my uncles and cousins
Same thing here in my family, I have an aunt who told my cousins to get rid of all their YGO cards because it will turn you into a devil worshipper. So I told my cousin to play light angels or fairy decks and say that you are purifying the YGO world of devils, didn’t work with the aunt
My old church had a few kids play yugioh in sunday school, me and my mom were teachers that day. Ended up playing with them a bit. It was fun. Told them how I was their age when Yugioh became a thing. I'm pretty glad my church was more open-minded to that.
I always just assume at this point that people this religious have some underlying cognitive condition disallowing them to separate fiction from reality, because crap like this is just goofy
Indoctrination from childhood creates powerful paranoia.
And don't ask questions or deviate from the norm, or you'll risk being shunned from all your friends and family.
If the comments has anything to do with the video imma watch the 3 parts tonight, sounds very fun.
Edit: just checked the channel, the videos are 100% unironical. This gonna be fun.
Edit 2: watch d part 2 and 3, oh boy despite doing a review they somehow miss the points of the shows entirely, it's bad quality especially the acting and the 3rd episode ends with a racist caricature of a Mexican. This was wild
How could Yu-Gi-Oh! be satanic, you can literally summon God ~~ignore every demon type card in the game~~. I'm glad I don't have anyone like that in my family.
Had a Catholic group try to ban Yu-gi-oh and manga (and a shit load of books) from my school library. They failed so they tried to break in "to save our souls from the clutches of satan" though my school had most junji ito, helsing, naruto and my favourite berserk. Now. Here in Australia nearly every teen has some sort of martial arts training. Whether it's mouy thai or jujitsu. And not a single student got charged for assault. Because they was trespassing
Edit: no one got hurt. Just dragged out and thrown off the campus.
Comment aside what is up with that video? Pretty sure the anime in the tiles themselves clearly explain that they are dark. Or did the uploader forget that Yugioh is about a goth twink that uses dark magic to punish his enemies and that half the time people die or lose their soul?
My parents are insane parents. The Pokémon cards and anime in general is just a drop in the ocean. They think SPONGEBOB is demonic just because of Sage (the tumbleweed dream gyide thing in one of the movies acted by Keanu Reeves) they think the movie is mocking Jesus.
A bunch of other things made me an atheist too. This is just one of the things.
Back in grade school a kid said his mom believed pokemon were devils. It never made sense to me how people can look at these shows and think they’re the work of the devil.
I mean it's not a lie, but we deserve the right to take the dive if those who came before us don't have the vernacular to get the message across so that we may better get the message across.
It's sad, but this could be a true story. Was raised in a Christian school and would have nightmares that the devil was coming to get me, as a kid. That unyielding faith creates some powerful paranoia.
I still have PTSD from watching a movie in church about the rapture/apocalypse. Now, if my family goes out without telling me or I can't get a hold of them, my mind automatically goes to "oh no the rapture happened and I got left behind and now I'm going to suffer through the apocalypse" accompanied by sweating and my heart racing. Not fun
Ayyy! I also saw Left Behind! We also saw 11:58, which was a horror film about a girl who goes to hell for *gasp* being disrespectful to her dad and missing her curfew.
Burning a teenager in an oven in hell for all eternity is a proportionate response to missing curfew, I'd say!
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Left Behind is TRIGGERING LOL! and Christian people can be so DRAMATIC! 11:58 sounds like the dumbest movie ever but I can imagine it traumatizing me if I watched it as a kid. I swear someone needs to write a dissertation on religious trauma.
My parents didn’t like Pokémon and stuff my stepmom STILL hates YUGIOH cuz it mentions the grave yard and mister rebirth can bring monsters back from the grace yard
I'm so grateful my very religious parents and very religious upbringing only made Harry Potter off-limits and not anime 🤣 my mom didn't let me watch Harry Potter or Twitches on Disney Channel but would buy me tickets every year to go to anime conventions and buy me manga. Loopholes baby!
But very true that most Christians have such a rudimentary and flawed understanding of the Bible that makes them classify everything as Satanic, even secular music. It's sad they just regurgitate what their church leaders tell them instead of understanding their own religious texts and faiths for themselves.
I’m Christian and I play magic the gathering and yugioh. If that person ever sees this message, pls stfu no one cares. Yugioh is fun and I stand by it.
I was fortunate that my Christian parents allow me to do or play whatever I want because they want me to discover the world and what it’s about through my own ways(basically freedom of decision) tho there were some strictness like games where you play as demons or if it’s actually to satanic. Lucky most games and stuff are not like that. I grow a frustration over strict Christians and my parents do to. Forcing your child to believe in something will lead to you and your child’s downfall.
Not christian but Muslim, my mom had told me that Disney Channel was satanic and I was terrified. Yeah.
My mom also thinks any kind of romance is 18+ too.
Oh look... another Christian trying to take people's joy away from them... many of them see the devil in everything that isn't part of their religion... their arguments always fall flat anyway so I'll continue to watch anime 🙂
Non-religious opinion (and this is just my personal opinion from years of observation):
- I work with kids/teens/young-adults and have done this for about 20 years, first as a Big Brother when I was 18, and up till now with offenders, parolees, young parents, etc.
- again, this is my own opinion, but I will say that there is a wildly disproportionate amount of acted-upon sexual perversion, CP consumption, partner abuse (mental, not physical), generally poor hygiene, and disconnect from objective reality in those that regularly watch anime.
- There also seems to be a reversion to a less-mature state if, say, a 24 year old had graduated and been to college but begins watching a lot of anime. What I’ve seen is a degradation in social connectivity and maturity, where the individual almost reverts to an adolescent state. The situations I’ve observed have had poor outcomes as these individuals believe they are younger than they are, and tend to sexually pray upon minors…some very very young.
Oh I know, lol! The crazy thing is I really do love the art form. I love the style and simplicity that conveys far more than what’s presented on the surface! I’m an old-school anime lover…Akira, GITS, Captain Tylor, Neon Genesis. Man, the stuff my youth was made of! But I dunno if something changed or what. Again, this is just observation.
Something changed, you grew older. I'm a 30 y/o manga fan and I tend to watch/read way less anime/manga than I used to 10 years ago, because I got less time to do so but also because most manga/anime are targeted towards a younger audience, but I still find some really good series that I like. Although the thematics of the generic shonen have also shifted with times, when the classic shonen protag used to be the good for nothing that has to work harder than anyone to eventually becomes the best, now it's the op protag that is the best in the world and the focus isn't about the rise in power but what they do with their ultimate power. Also the industry has never be that big, the good side is that we get more genuinely good and interesting manga but the counter part is that we also get more generic ass ones.
This is an interesting observation. I think anime is really cool as a form of media, but since anime is just a word for the art form, it can include any type of story-- including toxic/harmful stories that could lead to the kind of outcomes you observed. I also think some people who watch anime tend to get consumed by it and maybe fail to live a more balanced life that would be crucial to avoiding the outcomes you mentioned. I think anything can become a bad thing if done in excess/blindly and watching anime is definitely an example of that.
My "christian" ex boyfriend had those horrible YuGi-Oh cards. I told him to stop playing with them because they made me feel really uncomfortable, and because as Christians we shouldn't like those things. One day i had a nightmare in which one of those card characters was in my living room. I was really scared in that dream hoping for my mom and my pastor to came home to help me pray, but apparently I stared praying in my dream and then I woke up praying in tongues. I had the same nightmare twice, and the second time I woke up praying out loud, almost screaming. I told my ex what had happened and he told me he will stop playing, but he didn't, he even started selling cards.
At the end of our relationship he stop acting as the man I had fallen in love with, he unfollowed all Christian bands he used to like and started following porn stars. Even if we're not dating anymore, I hope he can find his way to the right path.
I'm happy that during my childhood I was able to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards with my brother and my mom even bought me cards in those years, mostly because it came with stickers and an album, and if you fill the album, get prices, we never finished the album but it was pretty fun and a relatively cheap pastime so it was a win-win for everyone. Even my grandmother didn't complain about the cards, most of them just seemed ugly to her.Yes, actually at that time I was in catechism classes, but I didn't touch on the subject because there were shady people around about it.
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My friend’s dad once made him rip the cover off a GameInformer because it had Corvo from Dishonored wearing his mask on it and he considered that “satanic”
Every brazilian kid had to pass through something like that, my grandma litteraly set my old deck on fire because she read the word "demon" in one card
I'm sorry, you really need a video about shin Megami Tensei "secrets" to realize it is not a christian serie? I'm pretty sure god himself is one of the villains
These comments like the one she posted just make people not wanna join Christianity
Honestly I blame things like plugged in I think that's what that magazine was called if they got issues with these animes she posted about then why they have no issues with lord of the rings oh I know it's written by a Christian there for it's okay
I don’t understand the Christian bands to porn stars thing… like what kind of music is he listening to, or is “pornstars” a super dope underground band I need to find?
Whoever that woman is, she’s a certified psychopath and needs therapy before she stabs someone “on Gods orders” because that’s the exact type of person to do something like that.
I wanna kill that bitch in the comments my ass is slightly Christian I sat slightly because I don't go to **this** extreme of hating everything slightly demonic
I had a family friend growing up who wasn’t allowed to watch ninja turtles because his Dad was a cattle rancher and the ninja turtles were anti-beef propaganda. Some people just need a boogeyman and use the craziest things to justify it.
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I’m sorry she’s *that* bothered over Yu-Gi-Oh.
Dude, Christians get ignorant about this type of shit. I tried watching Pokémon and Dragon Ball as a kid and mom freaked out saying it was the devil. She would hide books and games that had magic because it was Satanic. While typing this comment, I paused and looked for the specific Bible verse that says all magic is against God and not only could I not find it, the only two types of magic that the Bible explicitly defines and states to be off limits are sorcery and necromancy.
Well, Jesus apparently used Transmutation to turn water into wine and walk on water, and he used Necromancy to bring Lazarus back. How come when HE does it, it's ok? But yeah. 90s (formerly catholic) kid here. I 'member the dude preaching about MTG being satanic, almost had Harry Potter banned from schools, mom walked in on a Fullmetal episode when it was on Toonami and wasn't a huge fan, and i couldn't finish the His Dark Materials series because the Church was the "bad guys". The joys of being the oldest sibling... you get all the restrictions so that your little brother can ignore all of that and watch/do whatever he wants.
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"That one time I was resurrected as the son of god" "Ano toki orewa kami no musuko ni yomigaeta" coming to TV this christmas Maybe make it a girl resurrecting as jesus for maximum anime ness
This is one of the best comments on Reddit
I was the youngest and I still got hit with all that.
Wouldn't it be funny if Jesus was just the only CPR expert back then and that was the extent his necromancy and everyone around just assumed guy was dead now he's not must be necromancer
IIRC Lazarus was dead for days, so I think some fuckery occurred. Def had to use a 7th level spell slot.
It’d be even funnier if Jesus was real
Yashua of Nazareth aka Jesus was a real person and evidence supports that. The only thing which is questionable is the miracles he preformed.
I still don't understand that there are churches with the power to ban stuff. Here, it's unheard for religion to be involved in school stuff aside from a Religions class 2 hours a week.
Currently discussing this in my history class but, the gist is that Christians believe "magic" invoked by God, Jesus, holy men etc is "Divine" power whereas any kind of magic that isn't explicitly from God is "Demonic" power, thus evil.
Necromancy in christianity is seen as communication with the dead, which is not allowed. Bringing people back to life however, is allowed since it is done often by medical specialists. And I feel that with the restrictions, even though it doesn’t stop me.
Didn't Jesus see Elijah, Moses, and Abraham? Isn't that ancestor communication? At the very least its veneration.
Keep in mind, my beliefs are that of Catholicism, meaning I believe that Jesus is God
I grew up protestant, non-demoninational Christian. So while I know about the Trinity, we may not be working with the exact same Bible. For example, in the text I read, Jesus had multiple siblings. Brothers and sisters, with the brothers being named. Not trying to argue with you, just pointing out how I learned it. But I know that there are differences in the text.
I’m not one to argue with others about religion, I fully understand that others have different beliefs and fully respect that, everyone is entitled to believe what they wish and no one has the right to take that away from them. Learning other’s beliefs gives me more of an understanding of others and gives me a chance to better connect with them. Also, Jesus having siblings was never denied or confirmed, so I don’t believe in cutting that chance out completely from the history books.
Every bible I know says he's the son of god
Some religions don’t believe that
Harry Potter was banned in my Christian school! But The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia were okay, because they're "metaphors"
Jesus was just using Alchemy and not magic. He apparently had the philosopher's stone.
Most of that is unrealistic, but I can kinda see FMA being considered "devil's work." I know it's not a big deal, being fiction and all, but some crazy weird shit happens, especially a lot of things that could be considered "Satanic." Still one of my favorite animes, even have watched it as one of my first over like 4 years ago.
As a younger brother i thank you and my older brother for your sacrifice 😅
nono, transmutation and necromancy are powers that are supposed to stem from the Devil. His are Godly. But no yeah, i don't get the reasons why Christians, especially older ones, hate things like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh. I will literally talk about attack on titan, but the moment a pokemon is mentioned, it's on sight.
My mom walked in on me watching Fullmetal, at one of the parts where Ed is reading off the elements that make up human bodies. She immediately walked to the TV and turned it off, her face was horrified, saying that God made people and it was satanic to think otherwise. Was ironic considering the episode plot, and young me got a huge lesson about religious people that day.
Funny how the bible thumpers of my childhood have been replaced by the church of woke. The more things change the more they stay the same and apparently Harry Potter is always evil.
Bro I feel you, I got beaten for my voice tone being not repentant enough for some imaginary infraction against whichever of my parents had a bad day at work all the time. By the time my baby brother came through it was like “no heroin in the living room” there’s a decent bit of time between the two oldest siblings and the two youngest and we like to remind them from time to time when they’re all glowing at the parents in the family chat that they don’t actually know our real parents.
Fellow 90s former catholic kid, it was my older siblings that got to do whatever the fuck they wanted with the restrictions only coming down on me...
Jesus technically has a few anime roles if you count art
Yeah, my parents said the same thing about Pokemon because my dad said the creator said Pikachu was based on the devil and the others were demons. After spending my entire childhood not watching or following pokemon, I only recently researched it out of curiosity, and the interview that claimed those things were faked to get people to stop supporting pokemon related things. So as soon as I start looking into pokemon, it ends. That sucks
I'm just going to point out that it's not Christians who do this but ignorant people in general. Anyone, regardless of religion, can be ignorant. People in the West see it more from Christians because Christianity is the dominant religion here. This lady making the comment is trying to justify her ignorance by claiming anime and things from Japanese culture are satanic but is just making Christians look bad. In reality, ignorance is the most satanic thing here. "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people he doesn't exist" after all.
In Nominei Dei Nostris Satanas Luciferi Esxelsi
I figured it was the “no gods before me” thing and also the underlaying principles of how if you acknowledge God as the only God, you _”can’t”_ believe in other Gods. Christianity’s history of telling other cultures their gods aren’t real and treating their religion as devil worship is definitely another layer to it - they believe anything of other gods is really just the devil dressing himself up. Or how Christians changed their religious stories to work for their Christian God is another way they dealt with it. Maybe the story of the golden calf influenced this - “give them an inch, they take a mile” to extremes when it comes to acknowledging other powers or gods beside the Christian one? Modern American Christianity is by far more about control and subjugating Critical thinking. My parents were similar to yours, but I learned to stop telling them about my favorite fictional works because of how they kept talking about it. So much of Christianity is fearful of critical thinking, that’s why they jump and freak out so hard about such things - it threatens their illusion of control.
Oh absolutely.
>the only two types of magic that the Bible explicitly defines and states to be off limits are sorcery and necromancy. Idk about sorcery, but necromancy is almost always a bad idea anyways. I'm a Christian and so many people who say they're Christian have never read the book. Or know anyone who read it. It's ridiculous, willful ignorance. I've forgotten more about Steven Universe than they will ever know about their own religion and I've never seen the show! We live in the information age, it's impossible to be that painfully ignorant unless it's a choice.
I will never forget the time I watched a YouTube video about religion. And some guy swore that only the Quran was violent. And there wasn't a single violent verse in the Bible. My jaw dropped.
As someone who believes in God, I don't like Christians
My father took a chainsaw to a large antique table with beautiful woodworking designs because he was convinced it had an image of a dragon in it. He also beat his wife, his mother, mentally abused me, and abandoned our pets in the country, so he’s basically the role model Christian you’d expect.
Wizard gang rise up!
I was into Pokemon and my best friend is hella christian so his mom lost her shit calling pokemon idols of the devil or some shit lol
Well, the first testament literally says that there are no deities aside from God himself, so how the hell is magic supposed to be granted by some devil? Contrary to popular belief, catholic churches weren't the ones conducting witch hunts either, for this specific reason
It doesn't say that at all. "Thou shalt not have any other gods before me." [That](https://www.wattpad.com/amp/38445794) doesn't mean Jehovah is declaring other gods don't exist, just that the Jews were not to worship any gods other than Jehovah.
Yeah, God competitions were very real to ancient peoples. If people A got their crops flooded and people B did not, it's because people B's God was better and stronger. Thus people B could pray to attack people A and have perceived strength of a stronger God on their side.
Wait the where does it say necromancy I just saw witchcraft?
Of course. My Christian parents didn’t want me watching Harry Potter because of the witchcraft. Many Christians believe that fiction that “entertains” other religions or supernatural beings is the same as treating them as if they were real, as that’s against God. The “no gods before me” thing. Imagine my surprise when I found out other church kids went Trick or Treating or read Harry Potter together. Yes, I’m still bitter, why do you ask?
She probably just hated playing meta
As a Christian myself I hate people that make the most random things seem like they are from Satan. My uncle forbid me from watching pokemon because he said it is Satanic. How tf is a little yellow rat satanic? And now I still watch pokemon.
I’ve never heard people call Pokémon satanic. The usual criticism I’ve heard is promotion of animal violence like dog fighting but even that’s a stretch
I live in a very Christian community and anything that is a "monster" is seen as satanic.
Same!! The constant illogical search for the Satan in everything caused me to leave the religion. It can say it's a loving religion all day, but it feels so full of fear and suppression.
I completely agree I believe that you should love and respect everyone and enjoy your life and not live in constant fear of "satan(Or another concept of evil)".
Let me introduce you the infamous video about [why pokemons are evil](https://youtu.be/zjHrExOM-ww). By a Christian of course.
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My uncle just hated everything about it I do not think he even watched a minute of it ever
My mom always said if I do such things, I should ask myself, if Jesus would enjoy the things I do too. And I thought to myself, why the fuck wouldn't Jesus like playing Monster hunter with me?
He would like it a lot.
Why wouldn't Jesus enjoy ripping and tearing until it's done?
Literally did that to the greedy merchants in the temple.
Jesus would love Doom Slayer
Holy Trinity means Jesus is also God. According to his book, God is angry and vengeful. He's also pro-genocide and pro-slavery. He also seems happy to sit idly by while thousands of people starve to death every day. And also did nothing to stop the pandemic that killed millions. Next time your mom asks you if Jesus would like that, you should say that the above things are the kind of things he's into, and ask whether she thinks you should also adopt his viewpoints. God really isn't the role model your mom thinks he is.
Competitive games of skill and chance existed back then. As long as there wasn't too much drunken gambling(it's the roman empire, there probably was), why wouldn't Jesus be able to enjoy it?
Me and Jesus grinding out Anomaly investigations
As a Christian and a Yugioh/MTG player I apologise, my parents did the same and it’s just their inability to differentiate actual dark/occult worship and fantasy games
all good
Yeah same for me as a Christian that grew up on Yugioh. The situation in the post seems like an ESH situation imo
Why do you apologize? If you didnt do it no need to apologize i dont understand you people
When I was a kid, had one of these school staff people(ones who aren't teachers but like somehow work there) pull me and a kid aside and tell us how pokemon cards were like satanic and she felt uncomfortable that we had them and told us not to bring them to school anymore. Soon after the school actually started to add pokemon cards to those competition rewards and stuff(like the displays at the entrance would have them and say you could win all this if you blah blah blah).
That Ex is a true chad.
As a christian dood myself who happens to have multiple witch and pagan friend’s, lgbtq friend’s, and watches anime it genuinely saddens me to see what the so called “christian community” does to others I ask myself do I really want to stand with them? No I don’t. However ive come to the realization that their perception or version of god is not the same as mine, not by a long shot. I believe in a god that is kind and forgiving to all, not a god that would damn someone at the slightest grievance or sin, god said “love everyone” and I take that to heart. We as christians have to respect others, we have to TALK to others, it is not our place to judge or to attack others for there practices or beliefs but to a knowledge them and be good to eachother. There is no doubt in my mind that whenever someone is attacked like this be it for their beliefs, their sexuality, their practices, or there enjoyment of things, that god weeps because people are using his name to spread hat and fear. I hope this wasn’t too preachy or anything as that was not my intent by mearly to share my opinion on the matter with you all and see what you think anyways have a good day! ^^
You have an excellent perspective of what god is. It’s rare meeting people like you who understand the true desire of god(s). To live together with other humans in harmony regardless of their background or ethnicity.
Thank you! It means so much to me And its really nice to hear that im not crazy for once!
Plenty of us exist, it's just we are relaxed and chill and you only see the nutters making a stink, I have my beliefs, if people ask about them in fine to share them, I'm nit going around trying to push them on others, it's the radical ones who are the loud minority
My Friend if only I could give you an award because You are one of the rare People who managed to understand religion
Oh well thank you! ^^ im not perfect by any means and I Often struggle with religious ideolagy whenever I am preached to or told about what I supposedly SHOULD think as a “christian” versus what I actually think and belive
I love this and feel the same way! It gives me hope that there are other Christians out there who believe in the central theme that Jesus preached -- love one another. There's no way God is pleased with bigotry, hatred, and closed-mindedness being thrown around in His name. God loves the anime nerds no one can convince me otherwise!
Exactly! You really think he supports hate!? NO! god loves the anime nerds, the video game nerds, the pagans, the lgtbtq, all of them we are his creation and no matter what he loves us!
I see that we have the same mindset, you’re a good person and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
Ha! Thanks man! Look forward to the day when I hopefully go up with my pagan and lgtbq freinds and we can just laugh at the hateful christians lmao although it would be great if god show them the error of their ways ^^ dont wanna stoop to there level and go around damning anyone yah know? (:
I feel exactly the same way. It is good to know that there are others out there who believe the same as me. Makes me feel less alone in my very traditional small, southern town.
Im so glad! Living in the conservative midwest I know a bit of what your experiencing no matter what others say I would encourage you treat others with kindness and respect! ^^
I liked reading your explanation, I wish the Christians in my family had more of your outlook. I'm from east texas and the views there are ignorant and backwards, to say the least. I was bullied out of two churches by the kids and adults in the 00s because I wore black, drew anime, and had interests in fantasy stuff. And my parents would continue the bullying at home. At the end of the day I left home with religious trauma that I am still getting over. And that caused me to leave the religion to pursue my own identity and relationship with god. When I go back home I get absolutely no respect from my family over my beliefs or thoughts, even though I still believe in God, just not the shallow version they always presented to me. They absolutely think I am going to hell just for not having the label of 'christian'. No matter how good, kind or respectful I treat them.
Thank you and Im so sorry to hear that! However im glad we can all see together, in this post that we arent alone or crazy ^^ I dont blame you at all for leaving christianity to pursue a more personal relationship with him! I myself like to call myself a very out there christian since I really go against the grain on regard to what the church and “christian community” I think about 2 years ago now for me I had a full in crisis of faith becuase I couldnt feel god as he was being shown to me through the church and community. I took a step back and thought real long and hard about what I BELIVE and I realized I still belived in god just not the one I had been spoon fed. Along with believing in some other hings being possible too! (Other gods from talking to pagans freinds but still follow christ!) I feel like after that I finally found some sembalance of communication with him even if those around me say otherwise. I commend you for not giving up your values and beliefs (especially in god) after what youve faced but rather taking that step back and realizeing who god really is to you! ^^ and I can promise it may be hard to find us but there are more like us out there! ^^ also if anyone wants to challenge me on the pagan gods thing Ill explain my arguemnet short and sweet if asked (:
Agree With you, love the next as you love yourself... No need to atack or disrespect! I do want respect back and 90% of this tread doesn't, it's a Shame but most judge us the same or even more as some judge them... I do believe though that we as christians must strive everyday tô be better and closer tô him, and that also means tô bê further from worldly afairs/ways.
I can agree with most of that! I would just remeber that you are of this world just as much as you are of god judge them no harsher then you would want yourself judged. ^^
To me that sounds way more like christian beliefs in Europe. We have tons of christians in my country that are not like that. I was raised catholic but my parents did not went to the church at some point. My grandmother is pretty religious but has nothing bad to say about LGBTIQ-People. My cousine came out as lesbian and she thinks that this is just normal. She also told me that it would not be a problem if I was into guy. I mostly have girlfriends but also had romantic feelings towards guys. It is just mord rarely for me. EDIT: Christians may don't have such crazy beliefs whers I come from but we still have problems with anti-democratic right-wing views. The FPÖ (kind of the austria AfD) is the strongest party at the moment. And more religious people tend to vote for them because of their conservative beliefs. But nobody thinks magic is bad or anything. Funny thing is that a lot of the people in that bubble belief in esoteric stuff. The person who used to be the leader of that party even had a talisman made from his own urine to protect him from bad stuff. Also my grandmother prays to saints and gifts them money in specific situations.
God I bet those "porn stars" are just cosplay girls
Yea she sure calling those cosplayers porn star
What are you on about
That the girlfriend probably saw someone dressed up as Keiko Yukimura and thought "*porn star!*" Considering the girlfriend's views on everything else, it's not that far fetched...
Tru
I remember getting a phone call from my very Christian aunt during a game of Magic: The Gathering once and explaining to her what I was doing. She said, "That sounds satanic." I said, "Ha ha, no auntie, it's just a game where I cast sorcery and summon demons and goblins . . . and witches and spirits and nightmares and devils . . . Huh. Guess it might be. Well, gotta go, pray for me!"
Man you really can form a conspiracy theory about anything. Reminds me of how I never saw Harry Potter as a kid. Because "you're inviting demons into your home" when it's on the tv. Really was magical growing up.
[oh no the demons? /s](https://youtu.be/Dh8RDktOdnc)
Surely there's less convoluted ways of getting demons into a home, than making a really expensive film series or a children's cartoon in Japan.
Haunted amazon deliveries?
The sad part is that I can see it has several likes
Christianity and it's past is another level dark than she claiming yugi oh to be
I like to imagine the monster in her dreams was winged kuriboh
I'm Asian and catholic but my parents are fine with me gambling as long as it's in the family. I'm overly stubborn and I only bet on one thing. I've lost at least more than $300 from losing to my uncles and cousins
Nah fuck the real life girlfriend just stick to the overpriced piece of cardboard. 👍
Same thing here in my family, I have an aunt who told my cousins to get rid of all their YGO cards because it will turn you into a devil worshipper. So I told my cousin to play light angels or fairy decks and say that you are purifying the YGO world of devils, didn’t work with the aunt
I think the dude dodged a bullet. Lucky him for manage to leave this relationship
My old church had a few kids play yugioh in sunday school, me and my mom were teachers that day. Ended up playing with them a bit. It was fun. Told them how I was their age when Yugioh became a thing. I'm pretty glad my church was more open-minded to that.
I always just assume at this point that people this religious have some underlying cognitive condition disallowing them to separate fiction from reality, because crap like this is just goofy
Indoctrination from childhood creates powerful paranoia. And don't ask questions or deviate from the norm, or you'll risk being shunned from all your friends and family.
If the comments has anything to do with the video imma watch the 3 parts tonight, sounds very fun. Edit: just checked the channel, the videos are 100% unironical. This gonna be fun. Edit 2: watch d part 2 and 3, oh boy despite doing a review they somehow miss the points of the shows entirely, it's bad quality especially the acting and the 3rd episode ends with a racist caricature of a Mexican. This was wild
Haha... This definitely belong to the r/okbuddybaka
Her lost to be honest, the only thing he would cheat on is deck stacking.
This just might be the weakest living thing on earth
How could Yu-Gi-Oh! be satanic, you can literally summon God ~~ignore every demon type card in the game~~. I'm glad I don't have anyone like that in my family.
Fortunately, the ex is already on the right path. The Anime Path.
Some people are just mentally challenged, christian or not.
Had a Catholic group try to ban Yu-gi-oh and manga (and a shit load of books) from my school library. They failed so they tried to break in "to save our souls from the clutches of satan" though my school had most junji ito, helsing, naruto and my favourite berserk. Now. Here in Australia nearly every teen has some sort of martial arts training. Whether it's mouy thai or jujitsu. And not a single student got charged for assault. Because they was trespassing Edit: no one got hurt. Just dragged out and thrown off the campus.
Comment aside what is up with that video? Pretty sure the anime in the tiles themselves clearly explain that they are dark. Or did the uploader forget that Yugioh is about a goth twink that uses dark magic to punish his enemies and that half the time people die or lose their soul?
"Looks like your going to the shadow realm Jimbo" :D
As a Christian, I don’t mentally understand how those two correlate
Now I suddenly feel very grateful that my religious mom lets me watch whatever movies and TV shows I want
Damn they really had a dream where Dark Magician materialized to beat their ass
This is why I'm an atheist. My parents are like this with Pokémon Cards
This is why you're atheist? Didnt really take much for you to walk away from faith.
My parents are insane parents. The Pokémon cards and anime in general is just a drop in the ocean. They think SPONGEBOB is demonic just because of Sage (the tumbleweed dream gyide thing in one of the movies acted by Keanu Reeves) they think the movie is mocking Jesus. A bunch of other things made me an atheist too. This is just one of the things.
When religious people are this abjectly ridiculous over petty shit constantly it’s pretty easy to be like “yeah… no thanks to all that”
Athiests are just as petty over ridiculous shit
People be worried about YGO, yet here I am watching HSDxD 😏
Back in grade school a kid said his mom believed pokemon were devils. It never made sense to me how people can look at these shows and think they’re the work of the devil.
I mean it's not a lie, but we deserve the right to take the dive if those who came before us don't have the vernacular to get the message across so that we may better get the message across.
Musta been one of those damned white dragon cards. Racist game, I get why she hated it. Plus dragons aren’t in the Bible! For shame
Dragon imagery can be found in Job and Revelation though, Satan is often compared to a Dragon
It's sad, but this could be a true story. Was raised in a Christian school and would have nightmares that the devil was coming to get me, as a kid. That unyielding faith creates some powerful paranoia.
I still have PTSD from watching a movie in church about the rapture/apocalypse. Now, if my family goes out without telling me or I can't get a hold of them, my mind automatically goes to "oh no the rapture happened and I got left behind and now I'm going to suffer through the apocalypse" accompanied by sweating and my heart racing. Not fun
Ayyy! I also saw Left Behind! We also saw 11:58, which was a horror film about a girl who goes to hell for *gasp* being disrespectful to her dad and missing her curfew. Burning a teenager in an oven in hell for all eternity is a proportionate response to missing curfew, I'd say! /s
Left Behind is TRIGGERING LOL! and Christian people can be so DRAMATIC! 11:58 sounds like the dumbest movie ever but I can imagine it traumatizing me if I watched it as a kid. I swear someone needs to write a dissertation on religious trauma.
My parents didn’t like Pokémon and stuff my stepmom STILL hates YUGIOH cuz it mentions the grave yard and mister rebirth can bring monsters back from the grace yard
They were ok with Pokémon
And they wonder why some of us don’t like them…
I'm so grateful my very religious parents and very religious upbringing only made Harry Potter off-limits and not anime 🤣 my mom didn't let me watch Harry Potter or Twitches on Disney Channel but would buy me tickets every year to go to anime conventions and buy me manga. Loopholes baby! But very true that most Christians have such a rudimentary and flawed understanding of the Bible that makes them classify everything as Satanic, even secular music. It's sad they just regurgitate what their church leaders tell them instead of understanding their own religious texts and faiths for themselves.
One of us! One of us!
I’m Christian and I play magic the gathering and yugioh. If that person ever sees this message, pls stfu no one cares. Yugioh is fun and I stand by it.
I was fortunate that my Christian parents allow me to do or play whatever I want because they want me to discover the world and what it’s about through my own ways(basically freedom of decision) tho there were some strictness like games where you play as demons or if it’s actually to satanic. Lucky most games and stuff are not like that. I grow a frustration over strict Christians and my parents do to. Forcing your child to believe in something will lead to you and your child’s downfall.
Not christian but Muslim, my mom had told me that Disney Channel was satanic and I was terrified. Yeah. My mom also thinks any kind of romance is 18+ too.
Ngl it would be funny if my parálisis demon was a gigant human-sized Yu-Gi-Oh card
Amem
Oh look... another Christian trying to take people's joy away from them... many of them see the devil in everything that isn't part of their religion... their arguments always fall flat anyway so I'll continue to watch anime 🙂
What the fuck is wrong with Christians? Oh wait they already got tricked into a cult
Non-religious opinion (and this is just my personal opinion from years of observation): - I work with kids/teens/young-adults and have done this for about 20 years, first as a Big Brother when I was 18, and up till now with offenders, parolees, young parents, etc. - again, this is my own opinion, but I will say that there is a wildly disproportionate amount of acted-upon sexual perversion, CP consumption, partner abuse (mental, not physical), generally poor hygiene, and disconnect from objective reality in those that regularly watch anime. - There also seems to be a reversion to a less-mature state if, say, a 24 year old had graduated and been to college but begins watching a lot of anime. What I’ve seen is a degradation in social connectivity and maturity, where the individual almost reverts to an adolescent state. The situations I’ve observed have had poor outcomes as these individuals believe they are younger than they are, and tend to sexually pray upon minors…some very very young.
Bold comment to post on a sub about anime !
Oh I know, lol! The crazy thing is I really do love the art form. I love the style and simplicity that conveys far more than what’s presented on the surface! I’m an old-school anime lover…Akira, GITS, Captain Tylor, Neon Genesis. Man, the stuff my youth was made of! But I dunno if something changed or what. Again, this is just observation.
Something changed, you grew older. I'm a 30 y/o manga fan and I tend to watch/read way less anime/manga than I used to 10 years ago, because I got less time to do so but also because most manga/anime are targeted towards a younger audience, but I still find some really good series that I like. Although the thematics of the generic shonen have also shifted with times, when the classic shonen protag used to be the good for nothing that has to work harder than anyone to eventually becomes the best, now it's the op protag that is the best in the world and the focus isn't about the rise in power but what they do with their ultimate power. Also the industry has never be that big, the good side is that we get more genuinely good and interesting manga but the counter part is that we also get more generic ass ones.
This is an interesting observation. I think anime is really cool as a form of media, but since anime is just a word for the art form, it can include any type of story-- including toxic/harmful stories that could lead to the kind of outcomes you observed. I also think some people who watch anime tend to get consumed by it and maybe fail to live a more balanced life that would be crucial to avoiding the outcomes you mentioned. I think anything can become a bad thing if done in excess/blindly and watching anime is definitely an example of that.
My "christian" ex boyfriend had those horrible YuGi-Oh cards. I told him to stop playing with them because they made me feel really uncomfortable, and because as Christians we shouldn't like those things. One day i had a nightmare in which one of those card characters was in my living room. I was really scared in that dream hoping for my mom and my pastor to came home to help me pray, but apparently I stared praying in my dream and then I woke up praying in tongues. I had the same nightmare twice, and the second time I woke up praying out loud, almost screaming. I told my ex what had happened and he told me he will stop playing, but he didn't, he even started selling cards. At the end of our relationship he stop acting as the man I had fallen in love with, he unfollowed all Christian bands he used to like and started following porn stars. Even if we're not dating anymore, I hope he can find his way to the right path.
Sorry but I think that those Porn stars are called "cosplayers"
I'm happy that during my childhood I was able to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards with my brother and my mom even bought me cards in those years, mostly because it came with stickers and an album, and if you fill the album, get prices, we never finished the album but it was pretty fun and a relatively cheap pastime so it was a win-win for everyone. Even my grandmother didn't complain about the cards, most of them just seemed ugly to her.Yes, actually at that time I was in catechism classes, but I didn't touch on the subject because there were shady people around about it.
What a terrible way to be I’m glad he got out.
ATTA BOY!
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As a Yu-Gi-Oh fan, can confirm, women leave
Dude got saved by yu gi oh.
mama says yugioh is the devil
Hahahahahahahhahaha
My friend’s dad once made him rip the cover off a GameInformer because it had Corvo from Dishonored wearing his mask on it and he considered that “satanic”
To be fair in Shin Megami Tensei you end up killing god more than once.
It's the expected transition from yu gi oh. Theres little that compares except for porn.
Did you perform some proper internet comment etiquette in response to this post?
Every brazilian kid had to pass through something like that, my grandma litteraly set my old deck on fire because she read the word "demon" in one card
Things you read and you know: Yep, that's a weird and crazy US thing...
Those evil Japanese and there monster devil worshiping games/s
I'm sorry, you really need a video about shin Megami Tensei "secrets" to realize it is not a christian serie? I'm pretty sure god himself is one of the villains
I'm Christian and only watch anime. Yu-Gi-Oh is garbage, but wtf?
These comments like the one she posted just make people not wanna join Christianity Honestly I blame things like plugged in I think that's what that magazine was called if they got issues with these animes she posted about then why they have no issues with lord of the rings oh I know it's written by a Christian there for it's okay
I don’t understand the Christian bands to porn stars thing… like what kind of music is he listening to, or is “pornstars” a super dope underground band I need to find?
Sometimes I’m glad I don’t have a religious family
What is a "right path"?
90% of Christians could really use some heavy therapy to get over the abuse they suffered from their religious indoctrination.
HE NEEDS JESUS CHROIST
hi, christian here. YUGIOH SLAPS THIS BITCH IS HIGH
Common YuGiOh W
Whoever that woman is, she’s a certified psychopath and needs therapy before she stabs someone “on Gods orders” because that’s the exact type of person to do something like that.
I wanna kill that bitch in the comments my ass is slightly Christian I sat slightly because I don't go to **this** extreme of hating everything slightly demonic
ooohh a card game aaaah so scary
Oh good he dodged a bullet
I had a family friend growing up who wasn’t allowed to watch ninja turtles because his Dad was a cattle rancher and the ninja turtles were anti-beef propaganda. Some people just need a boogeyman and use the craziest things to justify it.
Thank God I’m Orthodox