Gaming as fictitious as Religion?

[robzo100]

JWeinCom said:

robzo100 said:

"Threatened by eternal torture" is not how religion is performed or ingested today. It's much much more casual these days excluding extremism in the Middle East. The debate I'm putting forth is in regards to religion in general, which is faar removed from Middle-Ages and Medievel times that you harken back to with words like "eternal torture" Also, I'm interested in stimulating conversation regardless of devil's advocate or not.

@Pokoko: Well I'm not sure of your age, but I would say that from 18-26 is pretty impactful for both users and non-users, meaning it's lack of use and/or use has a big effect compared to being outside that age range. Below it and FB&Co. is pretty useless as you interact face-to-face with friends at school/work/clubs/home, and above it one's lifestyle, imo, become more serious and focused to the point where casual friends have no time unless they are in close vicinity just as it used to be in highschool/middle school (due to work, family, etc.)

Hell is still part of Christian belief for most christians.  If you think that eternal torture is something that only applied in the middle ages, then you really haven't been paying attention for the past thousand years.  

You should consider the way it impacts people's lives. "Eternal torture" makes sense during those ages mentioned because it dictated life to the point that people could be executed if they wrote sacreligious things, protested, and even more so the music form that time period was specifcally devoid of major and minor chords because it would inspire too much emotion, just as sex was considered too emotionally expressive.

You're looking at the issue too literally and "factually." Yes, Hell is an unchanging fact of the Christian belief system. But how it is viewed and consumed is not. Religion is so much more lax today, I find it very plain to see. Hence the argument I'm putting forth. Religion is growing weaker, but gaming, as a general act of society, in-sync with other forms of entertainment, is growing to the point where it is beginning to adopt many sociological elements of something traditional and pattern-like, like the concept of Religion.