The game halo is truly a gamers best friend. It has shooting, blood, aliens, cool weapons and more. I so far have all the halo games, books and some action figures (i think of them as collectables). Although it is a fascinating game, I think it is used for the wrong reasons. Christianity is a religion that sates thou shalt not kill. But how about in video games? In the US Christian churches are using the game halo to recruit young men into becoming christians. For one the aliens are called the "Covenant" the game is called HALO. These are all religious terms. I just don't understand why they couldn't use another game, like a racing game, or a RPG game. Halo also has swearing and blood which is offensful to a christian.
The churches are using the game to recruit more people. But the people they are recruiting are in a certain age group. The age group is between 10-15. Which is however kind of weird because the game is rated M meanin 17+ and the church is letting 12-15year olds play it. If you think about it, if you were a Christian parent and your kid suddenly says "im going to church to play halo" would you approve of this? The kids aren't going to church becasue they want to believe in God they just want the game Halo. So this recruitment method is a bad influence and can even lose followers.
In Colorado (where this recruitment method started) a church has a basement and what they found was kind of surprising, there were some kids playing halo on 3 different TV screens. (how do churches afford 3 TVs?) What was scary was that they were from the ages 12-16 and they are in a church. You could hear blood and violence all around the church which is somewhat scary. One of the youth ministers said "We want to make it hard for teenagers to go to hell" How does playing halo make it harder for teenagers to go to hell. He sent that message to the parents of these kids.
My brother is only 12 and loves halo. Eversince he got that game he has been doing crazy stuff. He made a frag grenade with paperclips, water bottle and an ice pak (scared the shit out of me) and he made a replica of halo weapons. He likes to hit me now and then and loves shooting with cap guns. If that game did this to my brother what effect has this game done to other kids who play games in churches?
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Wow. This post is blowing my mind. Is this for REAL? The one thing I'd like to see is a link to the source(s) you used to get this info...news article about the Colorado church, etc.?
ReplyDeleteBtw, my favorite little bomb you drop in here is this sneak-attack: "how do churches afford 3 TVs?" My question is not HOW churches would do this, but WHY.
I guess one reason is, "To play hella Halo."
Glad you hipped me to this. Ever seen the movie "Jesus Camp"?