* All video games just innocent fun? Don't think they effect your children? Don't care about content? Think it's OK to give the kids their freedom & not set rules in regards to what they play?

Parents, this Crosstalk episode is a must listen too... 

Video Game Violence for Christian Kids?

 http://www.crosstalkamerica.com/shows/recent_programs.php

* You can download as MP3, Windows Media, RealAudio

Quoted...

'Parents are often so entrenched in pursuing the American dream in an attempt to improve the lives of their children, that they aren't noticing what their kids are seeing and doing as they participate in video games. The problem is, according to Art, video games have become progressively worse. These games allow kids to participate in life-like gore, violence, sexual content, drugs and drug dealing, alcohol, and filthy language....'

* Is subjecting your children to feeding their minds with ongoing Graphic Violence, Sexual Content & Encounters, Profanity, Racism, Drug & Alcohol use that desensitizes conscience, removes normal sensitivity found within all humans not to perform certain extreme acts OK?

* You can also download and review this free guide from The Timothy Plan site

An Inside Look at Video Games

http://www.timothyplan.com/ProActive/frame-ProActive-videogame.htm 

This guide contains a quick Score Card format that scores over 140 video games based on content.

* You can chose the summary or graphic detailed guide, for extensive details on what is really contained in this popular games. You need to know what you are allowing be fed into your child's mind. 

* This is a must read review for any Christian who has even the smallest inkling of letting their children (or themselves) see this movie, or want to try to "Christianize it" into some church Bible study and discussions. as some emergents and other compromising sheep are doing.

* It is time for Christians to stop trying to pull "moral" and "spiritual" elements out of thin air from secular and occultic media which fly against God laws and precepts in order to stay relevant and appealing to the culture of our times. We are at the point where souls literally need to be pulled out of the fire, not thrown into it! 

* We saw the same thing with Pottermania, Christians jumping on the occult bandwagon, through reading this article by Written by Caryl Matrisciana and Paul Villanueva. December 2008 I would safely say, this is the next step in desensitizing the culture into further embracing the demonic and occult, and as was  the Harry Potter books series this Vampire grouping is primarily targeted towards impressionable youth.

http://carylmatrisciana.com/x2/content/view/81/1/

The "Twilight" Phenomena

Quoted...

"Incredibly, this Christmas Season, when Jesus, the Light of the world used to be highlighted by the Church, many Churched and Christian ministries are promoting another light, "Twilight" the movie!.."

"Based on Mormon, Stephenie Meyer's 4-book "vampire romance" series, the Twilight movie was released last week (Nov 21, 2008) in 3419 cinema theaters across the nation and grossed over $70 million its first weekend. It's the hottest pop culture phenomenon since Harry Potter mania..."

"Twilight takes occult darkness, introduced in Potter, to deeper, decadent fathoms: overt vampirism, acceptable blood-sucking (in this movie its only animal blood – later? Wait and see!) and sexual lust for the possessed soul (made appealing in its fictionalized form!)..."

"But what is beyond alarming is that Christians are seduced by satanic deception and have succumbed to Twilight's fascination of dark wisdom, a power Scripture warns against - loving evil more than good (Psalm 52:3), and placing what the world admires before what God requires.

Focus on the Family, Christianity Today, The Catholic News Service, Christian Stay at Home Moms and Christian Teen Magazine are among some of the Christian groups who've been misled by occult delusion, and instead of warning Christians of its dangers, have compromised its lying message..."

* I would suggest you read the article in full the story behind the series and the author, including some of her "spiritual visitations" and other musical inspirations are extremely disturbing.

"Meyer, a Mormon mother of three, states that some of her inspiration in writing her vampire saga came from a band of musicians called Marjorie Fair.  "For New Moon, they were absolutely essential. They can put you into a suicidal state faster than anything I know . . . Their songs really made it beautiful for me." Also an inspiration for one of her characters was a band called My Chemical Romance.  She states, "It's someone . . . who just wants to go out and blow things up.".."

"A housewife named Stephenie Meyer "received" the story of Twilight in a dream on June 2, 2003.  The vision she had of a vampire and mortal as lovers compelled her to start writing the story immediately..." 

"She says she had an additional dream after Twilight was finished when her vampire character Edward came to visit and speak to her. The Edward who visited her in the night told her she'd got it all wrong because he DID drink human blood, and could not "live" on ONLY animal blood as she wrote in the story..."

* For all those Christians trying to put a Jesus slant on this film, keep in mind.. the next installment has Bella and Edward finally giving into vampire lust and conceiving an unwanted child, of course Bella loses her soul in the process... So much for abstinance and family values and a "guy" who cares more about the girl than himself. If you let your child get lured in with the first installment, what can you expect from the ones that follow? It is adults and parents that are throwing their own children to both secular and spiritual wolves.