Author Topic: Are video games sinful? (Read 4054 times)

ClarkSmith · « **on:** December 17, 2014, 01:26:08 PM »

I'm not talking about violent games like Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto. I mean regular games like Tetris, Farmville, Chess, or even pinball games. Video games waste a lot of time and you really don't achieve much from playing them. I have read stories about people that have gotten addicted to games and neglected their duties at home. Is that enough to consider them sinful? I'm interested in your opinions.

Matto · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2014, 01:30:46 PM »

I don't think playing video games is sinfiul, unless you play them so much that you neglect your duties. People need to have recreation and video games are a form of recreation.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2014, 03:07:06 PM »

Everything in moderation.

Matthew · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2014, 03:24:42 PM »

Quote from: ClarkSmith

I'm not talking about violent games like Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto. I mean regular games like Tetris, Farmville, Chess, or even pinball games. Video games waste a lot of time and you really don't achieve much from playing them. I have read stories about people that have gotten addicted to games and neglected their duties at home. Is that enough to consider them sinful? I'm interested in your opinions.

Yes, spending 36 hours in an Internet Cafe playing ____ while your 2-year-old starves and sits in his own filth at home is mortally sinful. Any grave dereliction of duty would be.

Making a god out of anything is a violation of the First Commandment. To whatever degree you make it your god, that determines the seriousness of the sin.

But there's nothing inherently evil or incompatible with the virtue of Charity about click-click-clicking on virtual farms or arranging electronic blocks in the right order so they fill a complete row with no gaps.

It's common sense, really.

Traditional Guy 20 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 29, 2014, 06:58:34 AM »

Video games are a waste of a man's time and unlike cinema was morally evil from the very beginning. So yes I call any man who spends a moment of his time playing video games a boy-child and not a man. I used to play that crap myself until I "grew-up" and my healthy body and healthy mind has thanked me profusely for giving that crap up.