Comments on: A Christian Gamer?

By: medium

medium — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:05:41 +0000

I have been thinking myself as of late how do the games I play stack up to my faith. I am a youth group leader within a uniting church youth group and as a side effect of this I am often running througth my head out reach ideas. and online gamming has been one of my ideas as of late. start a small community to show christian values in the way we act towards each other on ingame voice and text chat and also in out of game voice servers.
also if people are playing online games more often then not it is the way the other players treat them that makes them go off the rails. so it is better for us as christians not to stop playing but be there as a positive influince for other gamers as to how we should treat others online and mabey even do a little outreach along the way.
but this is just my view.

God be with you in your quest for your answer.

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By: Isha

Isha — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:01:55 +0000

“while people are harmed from it, then as a stand against it, we won’t partake in it.”

If you’re applying this to things that affect the mentally ill, I think it’s a mistake (although obviously well-intentioned).

The mentally ill have different brains and different needs. What may be quite benign or even quite positive for the mentally healthy person (stress, for example) may have adverse affects on the mentally ill. People who are mentally ill have to live different kinds of lives just to function, and you don’t want to live that kind of life (the less people, the better). If you want to take a stand against the things that harm the mentally ill, it will do no-one any good for you to boycott it yourself, and you may end up only diminishing your own life. If you want to take a stand against the things that hurt the mentally ill, it would be far better for you to support research and the development of better treatments.

If you want to take a stand against games that adversely affect even the mentally healthy, that would be a different case, although I currently know of no data to support it, and if it were true it would probably be a more worthwhile cause.

By: moot

moot — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:07:05 +0000

Just a point from a casual observer:

In the end you have to resolve within yourself whether commiting to the Salvation Army requires that you alter your lifestyle to meet your interpretation of its tenets.

If indeed you believe that abstinence from things that may cause problems in society increases your legitimacy as a soldier then perhaps calling it quits on the video games is not such a bad thing.

In the end I am sure common sense will prevail and you will evaluate mulitple aspects of your behaviour in context of your new career and adjust accordingly.