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Video Game<br />
Lies<br />
Our amazing editor in chief<br />
wrote an educational book a<br />
few years ago - Video Game<br />
Lies. It has been decided to<br />
post parts of the book freely to<br />
the millions of readers of FFG.<br />
Lie: Churches are behind<br />
Christian video games.<br />
Defense: They have to be.<br />
Exposure: If you can ignore the<br />
fact there is not one shred of<br />
evidence to support this claim,<br />
then you can bounce along<br />
on your merry way believing<br />
this lie. I have been in the<br />
video game industry for close<br />
to thirty years, it amazes me<br />
at the ignorant lies, and pure<br />
propaganda that gets repeated.<br />
Smear campaigns like this one<br />
only exhibit how far away from<br />
reality excessive video game<br />
play takes people.<br />
This is also a sad attack<br />
on Christian video games. The<br />
purpose is to get the conversation<br />
away from the issues of<br />
the day, and how these Christian<br />
video games can help<br />
people. Instead they want to<br />
divert attention from the good<br />
video games, and try a double<br />
smear. What would be wrong<br />
if churches were actually<br />
involved with the video game<br />
industry? Other religions have<br />
gotten involved, and they are<br />
trying to turn people away from<br />
Jesus Christ. Why couldn’t<br />
Christian churches join the arena<br />
and start making it better?<br />
There would be nothing wrong<br />
with churches being involved<br />
What<br />
would be<br />
wrong if<br />
churches<br />
were<br />
actually<br />
involved<br />
with the<br />
video<br />
This is<br />
also a sad<br />
attack on<br />
Christian<br />
video<br />
games.<br />
in the video game industry, in<br />
fact I would like to see churches<br />
start to get involved.<br />
I have talked to plenty<br />
of Christian video game developers<br />
and they have no<br />
financial ties to any particular<br />
church, or denomination. I have<br />
talked to churches and they do<br />
not get involved because Christian<br />
video game developers are<br />
businesses. Because of the tax<br />
nature in this country, they are<br />
not allowed to help. I wish this<br />
were not true, and I wish the<br />
churches would start becoming<br />
involved because we need their<br />
help. At the time of writing this<br />
book they are not involved, and<br />
nothing aside from this book in<br />
their hands is going to immediately<br />
change that. Maybe if a<br />
few thousand readers speak out,<br />
they can effect change on the<br />
churches in this regard.<br />
game industry?<br />
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