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Pokemon Banned! 4 Comments
I couldn’t believe this when I read it, but apparent the Kansas Board of Education, in their infinite “wisdom” has decided to ban the children’s game Pokemon due to it’s so called promotion of the theory of evolution. Granted, the game is not only enjoyed by children, but they are the ones that are targeted by the parent company and also the primary ones affected by the ban.
I myself have played the video games ever since they started coming out in the United States. I’m not all that interested in the card came per se, but the video games are pretty entertaining to say the least. For those of you that are interested in reading about the story, here is a link to one of the versions of it:
http://www.dailygaming.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=202
(by “one of the versions” I simply mean that a search for the title will result in a multitude of different sites all hosting the story. All of the stories are pretty much the same. At least the same general context anyway. Personally I learned about the story via a friend of mine on AOL Instant Messenger, but as I mentioned, a quick google search will turn up plenty of results.
To add to the ridiculousness, religious people were actually burning copies of the game? Seriously, how petty do you have to be to start attacking children’s games? If anything, you would think the churches would be supporting the games to lure more children into the church. *ducks* But I’m not looking for a religious war here. I just want to know if ANYONE could give me the side of the story explaining how a game involving magical creatures and foreign lands should be of any SERIOUS concern to churches. If people really grow up, become scientists, and claim “Evolution MUST be true. I saw this creature evolve right before my eyes as a child!!”... Seriously..
I myself have played the video games ever since they started coming out in the United States. I’m not all that interested in the card came per se, but the video games are pretty entertaining to say the least. For those of you that are interested in reading about the story, here is a link to one of the versions of it:
http://www.dailygaming.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=202
(by “one of the versions” I simply mean that a search for the title will result in a multitude of different sites all hosting the story. All of the stories are pretty much the same. At least the same general context anyway. Personally I learned about the story via a friend of mine on AOL Instant Messenger, but as I mentioned, a quick google search will turn up plenty of results.
To add to the ridiculousness, religious people were actually burning copies of the game? Seriously, how petty do you have to be to start attacking children’s games? If anything, you would think the churches would be supporting the games to lure more children into the church. *ducks* But I’m not looking for a religious war here. I just want to know if ANYONE could give me the side of the story explaining how a game involving magical creatures and foreign lands should be of any SERIOUS concern to churches. If people really grow up, become scientists, and claim “Evolution MUST be true. I saw this creature evolve right before my eyes as a child!!”... Seriously..
I'm a Christian, and I think that this is pretty stupid. I used to be a big fan of Pokemon myself...
I never fail to be amazed by the stupidity of some people. Why don't they just have a good old book burning session, that's much more symbolic, burn every book that mentions evolution. Nope, not for this lot, they're going to be weird about it and pick on Pokemon. Must have been that book they wrote "The Origin Of Species" by Pikachu. Idiots.
They can certainly STOP evolution. I remember if you scare something enough (mash A and B), it will be too scared to evolve. That's all they need to do, keep things in fear of evolving.
Sorry about the run-together paragraph. I must have been a bit affected by the story still, haha.. And yeah, the evolution can be stopped pretty quickly when they try like you mentioned. I've even heard that there are some items in game that you can use to cause a pokemon to NEVER even try to evolve.