Do religious people play video games?

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I am an atheist, and i was wondering if religious people play video games.

[Xero_Daxter]

A lot of religious people do. Because they know the difference between a video game and real life.

[GamePro46]

Publicado originalmente por Xero_Daxter:

A lot of religious people do. Because they know the difference between a video game and real life.

Okay. But do they act in game in ways that are not allowed by their relogion irl?

[Caldari Ghost]

Yes. Video games are a tool for endless self improvement. It's what makes them a masculine hobby in the first place.

[Affronter]

Maybe?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2938830/Family_Bible_Quest/

[WarHeRo]

no

[Pierce Dalton]

Unfortunately, yes.

[WarHeRo]

Publicado originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Unfortunately, yes.

what?

[Pierce Dalton]

Publicado originalmente por WarHeRo:

Publicado originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Unfortunately, yes.

what?

Have you never seen people with religious stuff on their profiles, for example?

[primeinsurrection]

It takes a truly stupid person to ask this question.

[sleeps]

ask them. but please, don't ask those megachurches and treat their answers as absolute

[Valfossa]

Publicado originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Publicado originalmente por WarHeRo:

what?

Have you never seen people with religious stuff on their profiles, for example?

You mean people with rainbow flags? Yeah they are funny

[C4Warr10r]

Of course. The only reason for religious stricture on video games is that you could be doing better things for a productive society and your own life with your time. In a purely secular sense, religion is just people figuring out what actually worked over millennia, and hedonism, amazingly, doesn't end well. You can just look around you to see that. Go on TINDR or Tiktok or whatever for five seconds.

Religion is the end-product of social reasoning made so simple that even an idiot can't mess it up too badly. The Bible, in particular, gives a lot of good advice for life, like "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Yeah, no ♥♥♥♥, because it needs to eat in order to work. Not hard, but people can an will mess this up. They do today in some third-world countries, and some first-world ones, come to think of it....

TINDR is another great example, though. How hard is it to find a keep a mate? Shouldn't be hard, should be totally natural, but people have screwed that up, too. It's their right to do so, but it's also their right to not be surprised when that crap doesn't work.

Publicado originalmente por Alice Liddell:

I knew a devout Christian that loved to play "Doom" and he was also into Pseudo-Satanism (Devil Worshipping) but more for the art and music than anything.

That's probably another example. I'm religious, I play DOOM, and I don't have any problems like enjoying satanic imagery. I abhor it, so it's great to blow the hell out of it in a game. But some people need the stricture.

[Ni-Neith]

Many of my friends are religious people.

Some of them play video games.

[Pierce Dalton]

Publicado originalmente por Chrisader:

Publicado originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Have you never seen people with religious stuff on their profiles, for example?

You mean people with rainbow flags? Yeah they are funny:winter2019joyfultearsyul:

You know what's more funny? A lot of LGBT people are atheists.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Apparently so.
I know at least of one Christian game review site.

And apparently there's also a Muslim gaming community.

There's probably also other religious gaming communities.