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Gears of War 3 Gears of War is another game that I think God would look down upon with sorrow. What I keep hearing is “How can God hate this?” and “How can God hate that?” “How can God hate video games?” What I’ve begun to understand is that perhaps I need to change my rhetoric. What I’m learning as I evaluate the “game” experience of all these titles, is that maybe God doesn’t hate video games so much as these video games hate God. I should have realized it when I played Saint’s Row. These games mock God and disobey His word not because they’re oblivious of God, but because they hate Him. Gears of War shows us how much it hates God by allowing the player to perform graphic and violent executions. In the clip that I watched, I watched players chainsaw men in half, slash their throats, and break their necks. Players can literally blow other players into pieces. The game plays out like any massacre or war crime. Limbs and guts are strewn about. Individuals are set on fire. Heads explode. People are taken hostage. Blood splashes on the screen in thick, semi-coagulated splotches, drawing the player into the action. 1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. And that’s what these games really try to accomplish. They want to draw the player in. Just like a good book – or the Good Book – draws in a reader. But with books, it’s much more difficult. For a book to draw in a reader, it must contain minute details and have a vivid prose that flows well and coheres with the other parts of the story. A game does this by engaging the player with the on-screen action. It’s different because not every reader can enjoy every book, but we all react the same when blood sprays at us. Anyone playing Gears of War can feel the recoil of their guns. Anyone can smell the burning flesh. These games flood players’ senses and then respond to the muscle control of their hands on the controller. When your son or daughter plays a game, he is actually in the game, just like how we enter the setting of a wonderful book. What conjectures can this lead us to? If these games hate God, what is happening to our children as they play? We all reflect the world we live in. The soul is both a sponge and a mirror. We draw in what’s around us and others can see it our eyes and represented in our actions. When players enter a world that hates God, those feelings of hate enter their souls. What I fear most is that after enough hours in these virtual landscapes, the players themselves will begin to hate God. I’ve looked into the eyes of many troubled youth, and even those who are well-behaved and mannered, and seen the look of hatred. I often wonder where someone so young learns hate. I commonly assume they learn it from bad parents. Or perhaps the hate came from their friends are school who learned it from their own bad parents. Or maybe now that kids spend more and more hours playing video games, they’re learning to hate God by example. For years this country has been slipping slowly but steadily away from our Lord. There is a malevolence somewhere that’s causing this. This next video reveals more about the true nature of Gears of War. What else in this country hates God? Science. Gears of War merges brutal killing sprees with physics and what can only be some sort of genetic engineering. The man in the game interacts with a cube of flesh, either grown this way in a lab or formed into such a shape as result of some sick experiment. The narrator gloats about how realistic and organic the game environments are, when it is merely a fool’s attempt to copy God’s beautiful world. John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. So it would seem that the developers of video games want to be God. They want to create a world full of beauty and life like the true Creator has. When they fail, as man always will in comparison to God, they begin to envy Him. Envy is just hate painted in another color. The creators of video games hate God, so they want everyone else that plays to hate Him as well. That’s why we see such a constant stream of misery and suffering in games. The desecrated dead muscle and flesh of the “meat cube” is evidence of Gears of War’s disdain for life. When I say that God Hates Video Games, does He hate the programmers who make them? Does God hate it when man tries to imitate Him? Does He hate people who dissect the forces in His universe? There are millions of Christians in this country playing games designed by people who hate God. This has to stop. Calling this type of entertainment a game has diluted the world’s sense of priorities. To all parents who may be reading this, I ask of you: Would you let your children read a book authored by someone who hates God? Would you take them to a movie directed by someone who hates God? Of course not. We choose not to expose our children to these kinds of ideas because we know what they lead to. What we’re missing is that these dangerous ideas which we fight so hard to protect our children from have been hiding right in our living rooms. They wear the guise of a game, but they plant serious seeds of corruption in the growing minds of young players. Remember, the worlds of video games are almost real to a dedicated player, and the content developers are making them more convincingly so with every release. If we can’t regulate them, their souls will continue to soak up the hate these worlds are infused with. Gears of War belongs in the trash with all the other games on this site, and the country won’t recover until we, as Christians, treat it as such. 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Updated 01/14/12
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