Pope Disses Videogames! Targets Square Enix?

[monkeybutt]

In his most courageous stance since condemning birth control and same-sex marriage, Pope Benedict XVI has taken a bold stand against videogames. "Any trend to produce programs and products—including animated films and video games," said the Pope, "which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behavior or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion." The papal leader suggested children enjoy fine art, classical music, and sumptuous meats and wines instead. "How could one explain this 'entertainment' to the countless innocent young people who actually suffer violence, exploitation and abuse?" remarked the religious leader. "The Catholic Church cannot advocate any custom or convention that involves the exploitation and abuse of children."
Further explaination:
Pope Benedict XVI spoke boldly against the exploitation of innocent children, by means of which the videogame industry has amassed its enormous fortune. Speaking to the one billion faithful, a sixth of the planet's population, the Pope advised parents to restrict children from exposure to games. The religious leader, whose own childhood in Germany was sheltered by the loving guidance of the Hitler Youth organization, decried the exaltation of violence by popular culture. "I appeal to the leaders of the media industry to educate and encourage producers to safeguard the common good, to uphold the truth, to protect individual human dignity and promote respect for the needs of the family," said the Sovereign of the Vatican State. "Any institution that would undermine human dignity and obscure the truth cannot be tolerated by the Catholic Church."

The stance against videogames of the Pope, once the Cardinal Josef Alois Ratzinger, has prompted the religious leader to publicly apologize for commissioning Square Enix art director Tetsuya Nomura to design his Papal coat of arms. The Pope's ecclesiastical heraldry depicts a pair of keyblades, an African chieftan being chased by a bear, and a giant shell, and was designed between Nomura's involvement in Final Fantasy X and the Kingdom Hearts series. "I was intrigued by Final Fantasy X because it depicted the fight against Sin in epic proportions," said Pope Benedict of his short-lived association with Square Enix, "though I did not approve of the game's choice of a homosexual main character."

"I asked Nomura-san to design me a resplendent coat of arms to go with my dazzling jewels and opulent headdress," explained the Pope to the international press, in light of his new stance against the videogame industry. "I thought the Papal Arms looked really suteki when I first saw it. But since playing through Kingdom Hearts I and II, I can see Square Enix games, with their subversive homoerotic content, are poisoning young minds," the Pope informed an assembled crowd of worshippers. "They teach children that the body can be enjoyed as an object of sexual pleasure, between boys and girls, boys and boys, whatever anarchic combination you desire. These videogames undermine the foundation of marriage, which the Catholic tradition unambiguously teaches is the union of a man and a woman in a shame-filled nightmare-vision of joyless obligation, through which a couple robotically churns out dozens-upon-dozens of Christian offspring."

The Pope suggested children enjoy classical music and Renaissance art as an alternative to playing videogames. "Look at this stuff," said the Pope while walking through the Vatican Museum, one of the most lavish collections of priceless paintings in the world. "Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you say my collection's complete?" said the Pope, spinning in a circle, his arms outstretched. "Wouldn't you say I'm the Pope, the Pope who has everything?"

"Want thing-a-ma-bobs?" added the religious leader, "I've got twenty... million."

The Pope maintains that the exploitation of children, the subversion of human dignity, and the undermining of the truth can have no association with the impeccable moral standards of the Roman Catholic Church. "The Square Enix fanboys prostrate themselves before the television screen in rituals of slavish devotion, as if their very salvation depended on it," observed the Pope. "The Catholic Church cannot condone such shameful and misguided behavior."

(xD To anyone who hasnt realized it, everything after "Further explination" is a joke.)

[Infinity's End]

That's the pope for yah
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[the loose moose]

pff
ol popeys just jealous cuz i could own him at any video gamez

[Ankoku]

I saw the title, and could not help myself... The poop stinks... I mean pope...

[Zaraki]

he's entitled to his own opinion but.... the pope sucks. hes just some over religious old man who cant make peace so he blames it on games.

[Frozen Inferno]

After the third paragraph of Further Explanation, I reliezed it was fake. I cant see the pope playin on a PS2... or his illegal copies on his PC... or bible.

[Electropop]

lawls..

omg Kingdom hearts is not "homo" Just becouse Rikus leg got injured does not mean hes gay my god people IT IS A VIDEO GAME.

[SuperEclipse]

Originally Posted by sorasheart281

lawls..

omg Kingdom hearts is not "homo" Just becouse Rikus leg got injured does not mean hes gay my god people IT IS A VIDEO GAME.

Did you read the last part???

(xD To anyone who hasnt realized it, everything after "Further explination" is a joke.)

[XFinalXOmegaX]

Originally Posted by monkeybutt

In his most courageous stance since condemning birth control and same-sex marriage, Pope Benedict XVI has taken a bold stand against videogames. "Any trend to produce programs and products—including animated films and video games," said the Pope, "which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behavior or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion." The papal leader suggested children enjoy fine art, classical music, and sumptuous meats and wines instead. "How could one explain this 'entertainment' to the countless innocent young people who actually suffer violence, exploitation and abuse?" remarked the religious leader. "The Catholic Church cannot advocate any custom or convention that involves the exploitation and abuse of children."
Further explaination:
Pope Benedict XVI spoke boldly against the exploitation of innocent children, by means of which the videogame industry has amassed its enormous fortune. Speaking to the one billion faithful, a sixth of the planet's population, the Pope advised parents to restrict children from exposure to games. The religious leader, whose own childhood in Germany was sheltered by the loving guidance of the Hitler Youth organization, decried the exaltation of violence by popular culture. "I appeal to the leaders of the media industry to educate and encourage producers to safeguard the common good, to uphold the truth, to protect individual human dignity and promote respect for the needs of the family," said the Sovereign of the Vatican State. "Any institution that would undermine human dignity and obscure the truth cannot be tolerated by the Catholic Church."

The stance against videogames of the Pope, once the Cardinal Josef Alois Ratzinger, has prompted the religious leader to publicly apologize for commissioning Square Enix art director Tetsuya Nomura to design his Papal coat of arms. The Pope's ecclesiastical heraldry depicts a pair of keyblades, an African chieftan being chased by a bear, and a giant shell, and was designed between Nomura's involvement in Final Fantasy X and the Kingdom Hearts series. "I was intrigued by Final Fantasy X because it depicted the fight against Sin in epic proportions," said Pope Benedict of his short-lived association with Square Enix, "though I did not approve of the game's choice of a homosexual main character."

"I asked Nomura-san to design me a resplendent coat of arms to go with my dazzling jewels and opulent headdress," explained the Pope to the international press, in light of his new stance against the videogame industry. "I thought the Papal Arms looked really suteki when I first saw it. But since playing through Kingdom Hearts I and II, I can see Square Enix games, with their subversive homoerotic content, are poisoning young minds," the Pope informed an assembled crowd of worshippers. "They teach children that the body can be enjoyed as an object of sexual pleasure, between boys and girls, boys and boys, whatever anarchic combination you desire. These videogames undermine the foundation of marriage, which the Catholic tradition unambiguously teaches is the union of a man and a woman in a shame-filled nightmare-vision of joyless obligation, through which a couple robotically churns out dozens-upon-dozens of Christian offspring."

The Pope suggested children enjoy classical music and Renaissance art as an alternative to playing videogames. "Look at this stuff," said the Pope while walking through the Vatican Museum, one of the most lavish collections of priceless paintings in the world. "Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you say my collection's complete?" said the Pope, spinning in a circle, his arms outstretched. "Wouldn't you say I'm the Pope, the Pope who has everything?"

"Want thing-a-ma-bobs?" added the religious leader, "I've got twenty... million."

The Pope maintains that the exploitation of children, the subversion of human dignity, and the undermining of the truth can have no association with the impeccable moral standards of the Roman Catholic Church. "The Square Enix fanboys prostrate themselves before the television screen in rituals of slavish devotion, as if their very salvation depended on it," observed the Pope. "The Catholic Church cannot condone such shameful and misguided behavior."

(xD To anyone who hasnt realized it, everything after "Further explination" is a joke.)

Wow FE is such a joke . Well the pope is the pope. People have to find something to whine about.

[Keitaro Urashima]

this is the reason why im not catholic...and isntead im christian

damn pope and his blaming everything on videogames

but the twenty million thing.....hahhah that was funny

[Veritas]

Pope Benedict has been steadily losing the approval of much of the Catholic youth today, myself included, with statements such as this in my opinion. He's too old-fashioned in my opinion. There's no way that I'm going to sit down and stare at art or listen to classical music. That's not fun in the eyes of most of the kids in the world today. Also, most people have more than enough sense to know that you shouldn't do what you see in video games. The Pope is simply trying to find something to blame the world's problems on. If we get rid of video games and the problems persist, he'll just find another thing. It's not video games that cause the problem but the people playing them.

Here's an actual article on it:
http://www.2old2play.com/News/The_Po...ns_Video_Games

[.:[Kazuma]:.]

When you got to the KH,and Tidus is gay part it, is when it got fake. and the 20 million part.

[Sir Jecht]

Originally Posted by Monkeh

"I thought the Papal Arms looked really suteki when I first saw it. But since playing through Kingdom Hearts I and II, I can see Square Enix games, with their subversive homoerotic content, are poisoning young minds"

I think this was the only part that wasn't a joke. lawl

[Mr. Brightside]

well that is very very very odd

[keybladeboi]

since when was Tidus confirmed to be homo?

damn pope...