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AbbathTheGrim on 15 July 2016

And yet I bet those prohibiting the thing let their children play the shit out of Pokemon in secret.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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Guitarguy on 15 July 2016

Utter lunacy. Equating it to alcohol... Rightttt.



JWeinCom on 15 July 2016
Illusion said:
Ka-pi96 said:

That's because they're not in a position of power... yet. But I can assure you that if they were they'd also ban it...

 

OT: If religion hates it then that just proves that Pokemon is good!

I can't really agree with that.  I consider myself a devout Catholic and I have absolutely no issues playing Pokemon and the Catholic Church has absolutely no teachings or directions against it.  

There are a few fundamentalist Christian groups out there that oppose RPG's in general because they consider it to be occult but they are a very small minority. Most Christians can understand the difference between fantasy and reality.  If you want proof, JR Tolkien was a very strong Catholic and he basically created the modern fantasy genre.

Because they don't directly weild political power, the Catholic church has to adjust itself to the secular world.  If they actually had power, they might act differently.  That's not to say they actually would, but it's possible.  There certainly is a precedent for that sort of thing in christian history in general, and the catholic church in particular.



JWeinCom on 15 July 2016
LipeJJ said:
LurkerJ said:

I am not surprised at all.

Similar fatwas were issued years ago (or decades ago?) during the initial Pokemon boom.

And if someone is gonna come in here and tell me this is extreme Wahabi teachings only, read the OP again. This is coming from Al-Azhar, an institution that is well-known for its "moderate" views among Muslims, not only that, actually a lot of Muslims criticises Al-Azhar for being "too moderate".

Moderate Islam just doesn't exist period.

Wow, if that's "moderate" Islam... I don't even want to know the extremist side of it. :o

Ask around in Nice.



Ljink96 on 15 July 2016

These people are sad. They take minuscule, fun things out of peoples lives that might make them ease stress or something, and instead they want to make everything fun look evil. Raping women, human sex trafficking, and having multiple wives...fine, just as long as you don't play Pokemon Go.