The Devil has all the best games
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN investment firm (yes, seriously) The Timothy Plan, has broadcast its Crimbo guide to video games for parents looking to be responsible in their gift giving.
Just to save you the trouble of working out which games are the work of Satan
and which are suitable for the God-gawking-geek in your life, here are the best
bits, mashed up into a handy INQ-sized guide.
Grand Theft Auto 4
The beginning scene of the game shows a man and woman in full bondage gear,
with the woman slapping the man with a whip, while they both scream in a mix of
pained/pleasured tones. You can also pay two strippers to dance with each other
and they will simulate a few sexual positions while dancing.
The main character can solicit dates from males on his online dating
website, but will be turned down because he lists himself as a straight male.
Most every character (aside from you) is seen doing lines of coke, smoking weed,
heroin, crystal meth, and drinking
frequently throughout the entire story.
You can go drinking with friends. You just park outside of the bar, then the screen fades to black and you show up outside again – drunk.
Gears of War 2
This is a bloody and violent shooter game. Players use a standard array of
weapons from assault rifles to shotguns and grenades. Bodies are blown to bits
causing flesh to fly across the screen. With head shots you will sometimes see
heads blown apart. Melee kills are particularly brutal.
Metal Gear Solid 4
Smoking is glamorized by presenting it as a fundamental part of Solid
Snake's character. As the game installs on the console's hard drive, players
watch Snake take out a cigarette, light it, and slowly smoke it down to its
filter over the course of several minutes. He also smokes a cigarette throughout
the first chapter of the game.
Fable 2
Players can engage the main character in adultery, group sex, bigamy, and
polygamy with members of the same and opposite sex. In addition, divorce can be
initiated by either the spouse or the player. Unprotected sex with a same-sex
partner will also lead to pregnancies. Players can have a gay/lesbian marriage
and have gay/lesbian sex.
Fallout 3
Blood splatters and spurts in ridiculous and unending amounts when you or an
enemy is hit or shot. Blood also splatters and lingers on walls, floors and it
visibly gathers on the screen which represents the blood in your character's
face and eyes. There are many bloodied and mutilated humans (such as headless
bodies hanging by hooks from bridges/building, etc.), monster bodies and
scorched human skeletons (in ruined houses still lying in bed, the bathtub,
etc.) scattered throughout.
In a bid to discourage the playing of such filth, The Timothy Plan also gives some incredibly useful, if inadvertent, gameplay hints.
For Fallout 3, TTP suggests that "You can take a blunt object (or gun) and beat or shoot people until you cripple their heads (making them far less accurate with aim), arms (causing them to drop their weapon), legs (making them either try to hop to safety or crumple helplessly on the floor, which is good for stopping fleeing enemies in their tracks)". Thanks for that.
Frankly, this sounds to us here at the INQ like a list of the absolute corking games to make sure you get your hands on this Christmas.
Perhaps Satan really does get all the best tunes. µ
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Do you really enjoy those "shooters" in education buildings. Have you asked yourselves about the origin of their "practice". I am not a psicologist but when it comes to anger generally we try to find a way to "express" it and if you play that trash too much you may end up expressing that way.

I don't play those games and there is no need to play those games to show you have a grown man mind. Common! don't generalize. 

Do this, go to the police department of your town, yes your own town, and ask a police officer to tell you if he or she has ever heard about or serviced "strange happenings". Let them tell their story, moreover they may have a dedicated office to that.

You want serious answers? Get the right motivation first.

Go play your games, go go. You decide. But please don't scream and be "offended" by a group of guys called "The Timothy Plan".

Have fun.
"Jesus said 'forgive your enemies'; his disciples asked him: 'how many times? seven times?'; Jesus answered 'seven times seven times'."

So does that mean after he pops the 50th cap in your arse you're allowed to lay some serious smack down on the SoB?
I'd love to see what they have to say about something like Postal 2. :)
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He did not teach the prayer as : "...as we kill those who trespass against us..." "

So the Crusades - and any other "holy war" (lower case deliberate) didn't happen I guess?
Hang on, an investment firm claims to be Christian? These people claim to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ? 
The same Jesus Christ who kicked the moneychangers out of the temple?
The same Jesus Christ who told the rich man to give up all his possessions?

Er.. Surely some mistake here. Maybe their bible has those bits edited out or something...
God created all things with free will. So it our free will to play. If we accept Jesus as our saviour, we are forgiven. Wars are fought in the name of God. God created imperfection by creating free will. If he had created 'good' beings then our free will would be good. But God created bastards and we are bad to each other. What sort of Perfect, Infallable, Supreme Being creates little bipeds that can rape, kill and squander life - while he watches from above and lets us do it? And if it's a test for heaven, why does the perfect god need to test his creations. Gods mental, thats what i say. 
Oh and the games rock, Fallout 3 for the win (I played a good guy).
It's about time you girls tried a real game.

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Things like these are just meant to provide information to parents, so that they know roughly the content of various games that they might find objectionable. It's important to be an informed parent.

I personally like all these games, and always play as the good guy. I feel all the blood and gore in Gears of War is justified, you are fighting for survival against an almost mindless and brutal alien race. The only game on this list i avoid and discourage is Grand Theft Auto, for obvious reasons.
Conservative Christians like these generally push for "abstinence education" to be taught in schools (which is to say, the only thing kids are taught is: don't do nothing until you are married, so you don't need to know anything about it)

If these Christians knew more about sex, they wouldn't write things like this:

"Unprotected sex with a SAME-SEX partner will also lead to pregnancies"

Don't go to church next Sunday. Stay home and watch porn. You will be smarter for it.
Then, my friend, you no Christian. Jesus said 'forgive your enemies'; his disciples asked him: 'how many times? seven times?'; Jesus answered 'seven times seven times'.

Another thing from Jesus: "...forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us..."

He did not teach the prayer as : "...as we kill those who trespass against us..."

The point being that Christians should not kill. It is pretty basic to Jesus' teachings - not to mention the ten commandments. Not even kill 'the bad guys' (whatever the currently popular definition of bad guys).
"A hot loaded .45 cartidge can propel a slug so fast that the shock wave induced in a human body by a leg shot can shred internal organs." Can I have some of what you're smoking?

Also, can we stop using the word "Chrimbo" please? Thanks.
The GRAPHIC GUIDE is a PDF file (2.25 MB) and can be downloaded here:
http://timothyplan.com/ProActive/frame-ProActive-videogame.htm
Smoking? LMAO!

All this time I've been reading the condensed commandments, I'd never seen number 11, "Thou shalt not smoke".

Thank you Inq, for showing this heathen the error of his ways and turning him from the slippery world of B&H!
Fable 2 sounds great, I gotta pick that up.
http://www.timothyplan.com/News/frame-News.htm

But I cannot find any mention of this "best games for Christmas" guide. The news seems to just stop. Kind of disappointing - I wanted to read what other highlights and hidden tips they had ;)
And do not have problems with these games as long as you "kill only bad guys" so to say. Fallout 3 (PC version) is the bomb, the game is just awesome. I guess you can be evil too just like in real life. No guessing as to what type of character I am. Dogmeat and I make a good team.
Enjoy
My answer: If you don't like it, don't play it. Nobody forces you to play it. If entertainment is against your religion, change your religion that actually lets you enjoy life. Peace.
l'inq?
I guess Dead Space was just too much for their fragile minds to handle.
ZOMG! 

FFS! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? I PLAYED THEM ALL!

I'M GOING TO HELL!!

Or, just a nice christmas family dinner. 

If you ever see another post by me, you'll know it's safe to play there.
A hot loaded .45 cartidge can propel a slug so fast that the shock wave induced in a human body by a leg shot can shred internal organs. This is a pretty pedestrian gun as guns go - imagine what a .50 cal military gun will do to a body.

The reaction of the Timothy Group is not to work toward eliminating war or gun violence. Rather it tells people how to avoid seeing anything.

As an aside, it is interesting to me that many USA superstar Christian evangelical preachers have been felled not by guns, not by secular humanists, not by the devil, but by exposure of their own sexual practices (infidelity, group sex, homosexuality) and drug addictions.
One thing I don't get about Fallout 3, I've crippled the guy's head yet he's still coming at me! I'm not convinced this is correct.
I must go out into the world and test my hypothesis!
Maybe it's a lack of realism in games that's the problem :D
i played most of the games. while playing the Far Cry 2, near the end of the game, in the following night i saw kinda real nightmare, somewhere in Africa, handling weapons, seeing evil, etc.., and in the end of the nightmare i was attacked by a ghost and nearly dead. think of this, whether you believe me or not.
Christ hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors and he turned out okay. Only God can know your mind, your impulses, and your true motives. If you play a game such as Fallout 3 which lets you choose your moral path, does murdering everyone in the Wasteland make you an evil bastard in real life? Not necessarily. Do you get an erection every time you shoot an innocent in the head? That might make you evil. Just playing a game with indiscriminate violence or sex does not imply you are a closet sociopath. It is about what you "get" out of it. Stress relief? Entertainment? Time sink? Practice? Dry run? It's all about you, not about the game.
Matthew 5:28
28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Romans 1:24-28
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.