We won't win the culture war with this shit.
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This kind of rhetoric turned many people off on Christianity and the right.
I'm worried puritan shit like this will only divide us down the road.
Some on our side lack critical thinking, just like many on the left. I learned that you can’t make everyone see reality, or the illusion. Some will remain asleep due to their own limitations or unwillingness to educate themselves. All we can do is be the light in the darkness, and ask God for the correct path to take.
If anime is that important to someone they get triggered by someone saying it’s satanic they wouldn’t be a Christian or a conservative is my opinion of your opinion
Matt expanded his "joke" to include all animation.
I think all art forms are important. Divisive tactics for mediums of expression is a bad idea. Humans need every medium of expression we can muster.
How is Matt helping the great awakenening here?
Some anime might very well have occult and satanic themes. Yugioh is a very good example of this. But some others can tell a range of stories all the way from historic events, to complete fantasy, and just every day drama. Japan does have some weird customs and traditions compared to the rest of the world. However it is the country with the highest percentage of people who have read the protocols of the elders of Zion. They are very well aware of some things others are not.
Yeah, tends to happen when your country gets nuked.
A lot of stories in Japan revolve around unstoppable distruction and an apocalypse because of the bomb.
Watch what kids grow up to make after growing up in a pandemic.
"Nobody cared who I was till I put on the mask"...
My son has been working on some "project" with his on line group of friends, I don't always understand what he is doing, but the group has been watching and recording and researching videos that are being shown on youtube kids, videos made for kids. A lot of them are being made in Vietnam, anime style, and they are full of horrendous themes, for children!!!!!! He describes some of them and they sound sick and scary for little ones. The themes are weird, like pregnancies being transferred to animals, the animals giving birth to a human, and then the animals going into meat grinders, shit like that. They traced it to films being made in Vietnam, and I guess they are trying to expose the source, trying to get them off youtube to protect kids. He just keeps saying "these are targeted towards children"!!!
Yeah, they figure out what kids are attracted to and then they mash it altogether.
HeMan was created when the toy company found that kids wanted power. They get told what to do by their parents, have no control over their lives but when they played they would obsess over having power.
That's why HeMan says "I have the power!" they got it from some kid who said it during a focus group.
The other stuff, animals and pregnancy are other things kids like.
Remember ElsaGate? A lot of those videos had stuff like that in them.
Well as a Christian who frequently angers people and points out things as being satantic (such as homosexuality) while not caring whose toes I step on, I'm just going to say the Matt Walsh is an idiot, and this is the dumbest take I've ever seen.
Yes there ARE anime with demonic themes, Highschool DxD (I was a dumb teenager who wasn't really saved once too) comes to mind since it's basically hentai that normalizes the idea that hell is "fun" and demons are cute sexy waifus, while making a mockery out of true Christian principles.
But to say ALL anime is satanic in a blanket statement is simply not true. There's just as many good regular anime as there are weird and off the wall crap (including stuff with demonic themes). The same is true of western media.
All anime is, is a form of art that has it's origins in Japanese culture. Japan is the second moth Atheist nation on the planet after china, so it's no wonder that they just generally twist any and all concepts they can get their hands on to make an "interesting" story.
I watch anime as a Christian. I grew up watching Yugioh, Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, DIgimon, Naruto, One Piece, etc. In all honesty, most of these anime teach better themes and morals than most modern western media.
Work out and overcome your limits (dragon ball), Value friendship over all else (Yugioh/digimon), Always chase your dreams (Naruto/One Piece), etc.
I kind of agree with u/SirSaturday. This is puritan level stuff that turns people off from Christianity. There's no commandment in the Bible that says "thou shall not have fun or enjoy a different form of art." Though when you consider the source it's not surprising. Like others have pointed out the daily wire is basically a bunch of "jew" RINOs trying to control the narrative while acting as moderately aggressive controlled opposition.
I honestly believe the reason people like this are allowed to have a voice by the media, even if they make good points that go against the narrative, is because of crap like this. They'll make a REALLY good point on one topic, and then turn around and say something stupid and asinine like this that 90%+ of Christians don't actually agree with, just so the MSM can paint all Christians as puritans moral high ground holders who look down their nose at everyone else and tell them that every little thing they do is going to send them to hell without ever giving them an actual resolution (such as introducing them to Jesus).
Just one more way the cabal and khazarians are trying to eradicate Christianity, but thankfully they're failing in pretty much every way when you dig past the surface level "data".
What gets me is these puritan types love censorship and they love to push their way of life on others.
'Won't someone think of the children' is all well and good but they want to kill adulthood for it.
We've made it so no business ever can have smoking, we've taken guns from the public, drugs are illegal and makes a drug war that kills more innocents.
And people wonder why there's so much arrested development, what's the point of being an adult if you can't act like one?
This is a complicated topic where you have to straddle a VERY fine line between doing what's good for society (banning propagation and advertisement of homosexuality, or any form of sexuality or sexual content in public really, online porn, etc.) and going into overboard puritan mode (kill the gays, everything in existence is evil, you're all going to hell for breathing wrong, but I won't give you a solution to any of this. Instead, I'll just point and judge without ever once offering to introduce you to Jesus).
I'm more of the former type. I do believe SOME form of censorship is required, but not a blanket style censorship. Adults are adults and can make their own decisions. What they do is between them and God. But we DO need to shield our children from negative outside influences. Not doing so for several generations is what has resulted in the current mess we're experiencing.
As I said, this is a complicated topic, and both "extreme" sides are equally unreasonable as far as I'm concerned. This is one of those topics where the answer is a solid middle ground between the two. This generally applies to most of the stuff you've listed. If you want to smoke, have a smoking section. If you want to carry guns in public, do so. If not, then don't.
The one topic you mentioned thus far I don't really think applies to is the drugs part, but that's mainly because 95%+ of the illegal drug industry is fueled and run by the CIA or their proxies, so once they're cleaned up, that will almost certainly dry up.
We have the solution for censorship for children. The internet is the solution.
You need a credit card to prove adulthood and you get access to see everything.
But companies like YouTube seem to refuse the idea of making adults pay a one time fee to prove adulthood with a credit card. Instead they implement bullshit ESG censorship.
Anime is satanic. So many pedo themes in it. Demon sympathizing in all kinds of series. I’ve watched a lot of anime and he’s not wrong. I don’t care for him or the daily wire because of their heavy Jewish influence. When you look for it in anime it’s everywhere. Occult symbolism too.
Yeah but when you're a nutty puritan, you can find pedo themes and demons in anything.
I ask myself does what I'm watching gives glory to God, if it doesn't it is of the world. The world is satanic. It is apart of the cosmos system where satan rules in this present time. Anime is of the world (for the most part from my 100's of series watched). I watch anime, some I can't because its too blatant in being worship of the worldly things that give no glory to God. I can still appreciate the imagination and skill put into a show. You can find things that are beautiful results of Gods creation but are tainted by our sin nature. A litmus test would be would you take show "x" into a youth group or congregation and it give glory to God. I havent found one. If it hurts to hear that don't shot the messenger. However far you want to dive into anime and how much you enjoy it is up to you and you alone. I don't care how much importance you put into anime, I have my own sin nature that I put things in to high a priority in my life. At the same time you can't convince me that it brings glory to God and anime fits into place the Bible shows it doesn't. This doesn't just apply to anime as I just alluded to. This just the topic of this post so I'm keeping it to anime but insert any topic, porn, narcissism, unrighteous pride, "living your best life", and the list goes on. I don't let my opinions of the person saying things dictate the facts or lies someone says. I don't like matt walsh but there is nothing in the Bible that even alludes to anime (for the most part) being anything close to giving glory to God and something I should have hold any spiritual weight in my life when the themes are sexual, demonic, pedophilic, atheistic, and pagan.
Cool, go raise a barn.
Use the Bible to prove that statement wrong
The Bible is a 'how to live for dummies'.
how so
People who don't naturally have good judgement rely on the Bible to get them through the day.
People who don't have a father rely on the Bible to get them through the day.
The Bible is an introduction to religion, it's on the level of a car manual.
I'm on the car builder's manual level in life.
I am not Christian at all and I have noticed the same. Not all anime, but for the sake of Matt's statement there is something to it. There is satanic symbolism, themes, etc in anime
Isn't that because a lot of anime (and stories) in general is good guys vs. bad guys?
It's also Japan, they had demons in their culture before Christianity ever got there.
I think Matt's talking out of his ass.
Sure they did, but the proliferation of it in their media has exploded since.
It used to other demons and serve as cautionary tales.
Now there's some anime with demon Loli girls wearing the pants in a relationship with high school boys. It's opened the floodgates to a lot of degeneracy
Name The Jew, Matt.