the only good backmasking was stairway to heaven backwards anyway.

Lol. I like to laugh at stupid people, I never heard people wanted to ban pokemon, but they did try with dragon ball and yugioh cards, but it wasnt because of the devil, it was because a guy killed himself because a card told him and DB was violent, in any case these people are crazy.

As this is being said on an internet forum... where the top pecents of internet users roam lol.

But honestly I'm very faithful, I love God, people, and the world as a whole, but I don't get what point you're trying to make in reguards to the thread. 

Everything being in some part of the devil and keeping blissful ignorance seems to say Amish beliefs and talking about not merging with machines backs it up, though both points don't really relate to the thread, unless you're meaning it as everything can be turned bad and that is true.  Smoking a cigarette is not bad you can smoke a single one, but when it turns into a habit it's bad.  Having sex is good when it's with someone you love with all your heart, but going around sleeping with everything is really bad.  So if you could please elaborate a bit on your point.

lol i guess not. I think mine was better.

yes it is

the amount of time it sucked out of me & the temptation of it certainly makes it "of the devil"

lol

but seriously I hope the person you were talking to was joking

Pokemon is actually linked to Christianity a bit. From what I read in one of my friend's Christian magazines (I'm Catholic, btw), the anime is almost set up in a religious setting. Ash is based upon Jesus, who goes everywhere trying to do good when he can and treats every person and Pokemon equally. Even Noah is mention in the anime when Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu are stranded on the wreckage when the S.S. Anne sinks, and Brock makes a suggestion that Ash send out Pidgeotto to look for a twig from land like Noah did when he sent a dove out to find a tree branch. There was even mentioning of David and Goliath in one of the episodes, even though it was used as a comparison.

And more importantly, each Pokemon is different by elemental types, natures, characteristics and even the stats vary in the same Pokemon species. This is much like how everyone else is different, unique from one another. We all have our own special gifts that sets us apart from one another. That is how people are almost like Pokemon, as we have our own strengths and weakness, likes and dislikes...

Oh, and there was one instance when I was working at the daycare one day and a mother came up to me with her son and she asked me if I could suggest her some games for her son's DSLite. One of the first things I mentioned was Pokemon, and she said, "Oh no, Pokemon isn't allowed in or at our house!" I'm like WTF lady, you let your son watch Bakugan and Yu-Gi-Oh!, but not Pokemon?? O_O And I tell every parent at the daycare not to let their child watch Bakugan (I'm sorry, but throwing marbles around is stupid) because it is not educational at all.

I'd say Pokemon is more educational, the reason being that I learned when I was 15 that heating and cooling metal in rapid succession can cause it to crack and break. I mentioned something like that in 11th grade in chemistry when the teacher asked the class how to break metal. My classmates were amazed by me knowing that and the teacher, in front of class, asked me where I learned that. I said I watched Pokemon and learned it from that. Some girl said, "What?? Pokemon is educational?" I replied, "Yes, you learn manners, how to treat others with respect, to help others in times of need and learn about the elements and problem solving."

i never believed that pokemon was the devil but i remember when people say it was.

It' not the 'evolution' aspect that parents are dumb about who dub it as taboo. It's the fact they don't realize that even us humans go through evolution our whole lives. Like when we are younger, we are cute and cuddly as a Charmander, and when we grow up a bit more (well, boys mainly) we become roudy and aggressive like Charmeleon. Then when we finally mature into adults, we become majestic and powerful in our own rights because we experienced life more, hence being like a Charizard.

Even though I mentioned that I'm a Catholic, evolution is ALL around us. A parent who thinks Pokemon is Satanic due to evolution is just dumb. How are they going to teach their children or stop them learning about how certain animals change form to reach adulthood (caterpillar > cocoon > butterfly)? Plus we are changing all the time as well as we are evolving into adults. How are you going to explain to a child that a bear cub (Teddiursa) is going to grow (evolve) into a bear (Ursaring)? Or a pitbull puppy (Snubbull) is going to grow a pitbull (Granbull)? See what I mean??

The one nun that my private (Catholic) high school has even supports evolution, and blatantly said the Vatican was stupid enough to say that evolution was blasphamy. She's also a biology teacher as well and teaches evolution for a month or two. She even told me one time that despite how crazy Pokemon may seem, it does teach chldren how things grow and mature through life.

The Creation Story within the Old Testament is rubbish; even my religion teacher in my private high school said so, as the Jews wrote those stories during the time they were imprisoned by the Babylonians. Those 'stories' are just fillers. Everyone knows that humans did not pop up out of nowhere; we all came from the single celled organisms which later evolved into complex organisms, and so forth.

@naraku, the point is, the church could have translated it in a metaphorical way that coincided with science and evolution but instead chose to look like retards once again. Remember when the earth was the center of everything?