Demonic Toys

Delve into the childhood of a fundamentalist church kid.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• christian
• fundamentalist
• pentecostal
• charismatic
• care
• bears
• smurfs
• he-man
• fundamentalism
• jesus
• christ
• cult
• dungeons
• dragons

[BETAmosquito]

It's not fair that the tel-evangelist got to play with He-man toys and you kids were forbidden :P

[Discern4]

@BETAmosquito Got that right. In the full video he gets to watch all the banned cartoons (he can't wait to show us more and more clips), and then he has all the action figures as well. It's like a dream come true for us 80s kids.

Then he pulls out Snake Mountain, which must've been an expensive toy, and he just casually says "yeah, we picked this up at the toy store..." as though it were nothing to shell out all this cash on toys we dreamed about :)

[hatefulvengeance]

So what do fundamentalists, do to kill time if every thing is banned?

[Discern4]

@hatefulvengeance said: "So what do fundamentalists, do to kill time if every thing is banned?"

We judge each other and other people :)

[fatcat2939]

Hi Discern4,

I was wondering if you still talk to your parents? Hope I do not offend, but if I were in your shoe's I would not give them any of my time.

[Discern4]

@fatcat2939 I love my parents. As I mentioned in the video, they just wanted to do what they felt was right by God. It's hard to blame them when they sincerely thought they were protecting me from "demons" and whatnot (although there is a balance). I feel there are bigger fish to fry when it comes to refuting fundamentalist beliefs.

[curlew0609]

"why not other household objects vs. toys"

Because it's easier to bully children and take their toys away than it is to bully mommy into giving up her favorite skin cream. The child may cry or pout. Mommy will rip your face off.

[TwistedFireX]

I'm a large My Little Pony fan. So this video really enlightened me.

[HebaruSan]

"Abstain from all forms of evil" is a perfectly good principle if you have a reasonable concept of what's evil.

[HybridD91]

So, what you are really saying is that fundamentalists unknowingly speak against everything in their Bible?

[GladeSwope]

@419Films can't be much worse than Left Behind...

[GladeSwope]

@rastarigate The sad thing is that some of that stuff can be impossible to replace.

[GladeSwope]

@Cuthla re: simon's quest:

BELIEVE IN MAGIC AND YOU WILL BE SAVED.

(yes, that's a real quote from the game!)

[GladeSwope]

@rrward If I were a fundy and believed that magic really works, I would use it! Screw the technicalities, we're savin' souls, for that cause anything goes!

[GladeSwope]

Anyone remember Wisdom Tree's "Spiritual Warfare" - it was essentially a "christian" Zelda parody. Of course, those passages about the "full armor of god" (shield of faith, etc.) sound like interesting items to have in a game of D&D. Irony: SW could be considered more offensive than Zelda- Not making this up: it calls A PEAR a "fruit of the H-ly Sp-r-t." (dashes mine, don't want to do unpardonable sin;) and you throw pears at your enemies to kill them, and watch them die pleading for mercy!

[GladeSwope]

Strangely, I never heard of the Zelda games being condemned by pentas that I knew personally. Although they DID condemn Metallica and D&D. So that preacher thought the game was bad because you're fighting evil creatures? Isn't that exactly what pentas are all about? Yea, sometimes they sound like Motley Crue; i.e. shouting at the devil! And what about the fact that Link has a cross on his shield? Of course any kind of logical consistency is too much to ask.

[Arkticus]

@GladeSwope I thought it was a requirement of fundies to not read it, and just copy-paste from those all-important verses that allow them to hate the things they don't understand....