“Do you realize that whatever we fantasize about matters to God? He is intimately aware and involved in our spiritual development. As Christians, it is critical that we censor our imaginations, because wrong thoughts can easily become wrong attitudes that give birth to sinful actions. Emotions can manifest with equal force whether incited by fantasy or reality. This fact alone fuels the pornography industry.”
– an excerpt from “Buying and Selling the Souls of our Children: A Closer Look at Pokemon” by John Paul Jackson
Please, please show this quotation the next time you see an anti arguing about how we shouldn’t compare them to conservative Christians.
Pokemon??? The heehoo funny monster catching game??
Did they really compare Pokémon to actual, literal porn???
“We’re completely normal!”
Okay but I’m not comparing a children’s game to the porn industry. I’m just not. Pokémon isn’t that deep, bro.
Comparing whatever you’re trying to censor to pornography is a conservative trick that goes back decades, if not longer.
My biggest issue with it is the fact Pokémon is a children’s game, making the contents of this book, at least indirectly, aimed at/for kids.
Even if it’s their parents reading it, kids have a really big context and the idea of bringing up porn around the context of real, actual kids is
Icky?
That’s conservative Christians for you. Never afraid to expose children to concepts of pornography and eternal torture, as long as they’re telling you how to avoid it!
