>Sure we could have afforded a dish or cable, but we didn’t want the world invading our home and taking our kids hostage.

Yes, heaven forbid they ever find out about a world outside their home. They might start thinking for themselves! We can't be having that, now.

Less flippantly, this is another case of a sensible idea being taken too far. We all see the value of parents keeping an eye on the media their children are viewing- but Mr. Luce seems to have missed the point and is more upset about the form ("TV", "music", "games") than the content ("sex", "violence", "the theory of evolution"), which is a very dangerous game to start playing.

Me, however? I'm going to start warning people about the devilries of newspapers. That'll learn him. :D

/b

interesting article....aren't most wars (either internal or global) down to religion?....who is the terrorist now?

I suggest Ron looks at his own religion before he turns on media

Holy **** if I was an American kid I would be ****ting myself, if George Bush found out terrorists are in kids bedrooms he will unleash B52´s all over residential America.

Well said beemoh, I completely agree.

people love to balme something for violence or cultural issues, like someone mentioned previously it normally comes down to religion, or Oil, lets ban all films , games, dvds, piss off back to what ever rock you crawled out of cok head

oh dear me, anyone know his address, id like to give him a knuckle sandwich, as ive just played crash bandicoot and now im hyped up and ready for violence, looser

“A man knocks on your door. As soon as you answer, you recognize him from mass. He’s a known thief and sexual predator of young girls who has just been handing out wafers"

I think that the use of the word terrorist is ill advised.

That said MCVs handling and 'quoting' of the article is shoddy and sensationalist - people can't be commenting enough on their articles.....

The author, Ron Luce, is commenting about the responsibility parents have. Sure, there is some rhetoric and his view is entrenched but it doesn't seem any different to the usual comments made by Christian or conservative family groups.

Oh and before anyone flames me: All three current consoles, two PC's, Cable, Laptop

@ Burner

Yes, his general jist of parents taking responsiblity for their children's media consumption is a good thing.

Unfortunatley, he reduces it down to sensationalist statements and religous rhetoric. Modern religion has no place in modern culture; not because reglion per se is a bad thing (although the antithesis of fanboys in religon are fanatics and we all know how childish and immature fanboys are – the same goes for fundementalists), it's just that they are trying to hang onto religion's purpose of social control, something that stopped being the case as soon as national police forces came into existance and science started disproving their assumptive theories of how things worked.

One word...fool!!

"‘inviting a sex predator into your home’."

Thats rich coming from a religion which has made enough news headlines in recent years because of the number of clergy that are child abusers!

Did anyone actually read the original article instead of MCV's take on it? After reading MCV, I was ready to write an angry missive to this person, telling him that parents need to take responsibility for their kids and not blame things like games, television, rock and roll, comic books, pinball, swing music, paperback books, the waltz (!) and everything else that has been blamed for the "downfall of youth" throughout history.

Turns out, the author agrees with me!

He said that kids in our culture are being bombarded by potentially damaging philosophies, and that television, computers, cell phones and videogames are ways that those messages are being carried into the home. He didn't single out videogames. In fact, he barely mentioned them.

In conclusion, he suggests that parents limit TV viewing and "screen the media your kids want to engage in before you let them do so. This includes T.V., movies, and music." What's wrong with that?

I suggest you all read the original article. I'm a life-long gamer with hundreds of consoles and thousands of games, and I let my kids play games -- but I pay attention to what they are doing. And I'm not naive enough to believe that popular culture has absolutely no affect on the values that kids develop -- their parents do need to pay attention to the messages they are given through TV, movies, music and...yes...even videogames.

Surely by making these accusations this man is encouraging mindless fear? Who's the terrorist NOW?

re :Mark Androvich

I did read the article on the 'Christian Post' website, and do agree with you in terms of the need to, as a parent, review what your kids see. As a parent myself, I am very aware of media content (on TV, games, press etc) and react accordingly.

To say Video games (media in general) are terrorists is wrong and a little hypocritical from a man whose religion (as someone pointed out) has been critised over years of priests being caught up on child porn/abuse.

MCV haven't helped by the quotes and not running the full story, but that said, its people like him (and his fantically supporters) who cause unnecessary problems and fear in general society. Those will half a brain will ignore him, unfortauntely there are many who will take him at his word.

The joys of the press and religion! Two more things that simpy don't mix well

Well if the quote in my previous comment appears in the article then quite frankly my point still stands whether or not ive read the entire thing.

Yes! Tonight's the night! At exactly 12:00 AM GMT all consoles and computers in your childrens bedrooms shall detonate, sending a pulsing shockwave of EVIL throughout the land! Moo hoo ha ha ha ha ha!

In all seriousness, though, come on. The simple fact is that "people" like Jack Thompson, Gordon Brown, and, indeed, Mr Ron Luce up there, are unwilling to actually look into the TRUE causes of violence and crime; human ****ing nature. I'm a good 90% sure Hitler and Jack The Ripper didn't play video-games, neither did the geezers who nailed Christ to a couple of bits of wood. And take a look at the bible: Full of violence, but not a single video-game. So, what, only violence in the last 30 years on a domestic level is caused by video games? Hmm. It's also very hypocritical, what with our governments constantly telling youths to join the Army, where they get to act out their violent fantasies for real. Usually against countries full of small brown children.
(sigh) For me, personally, if I DON'T play violent video games, I get way too tempted to haul off at these idiots with a shovel. It's cathartic for me, in a way. I'm 24 years old and I have never committed an act of violence that wasn't caused by ALCOHOL! The GOVERNMENT approved drug of choice! What, you'd rather have people getting drunk and hurting/killing each other in the streets than have kids sitting in their bedrooms shooting monsters? Stop passing the buck, stop blaming other people and other things, and REALISE: Kids are violent because WE are violent. As a species.
Okay, this rant-fest is at an end. Sorry, but it gets right on my pecs when humanity can't take responsibilty for its own actions, and has to ruin MY fun in the God-damned process.
Incidentally, anybody fancy their chances against me in TF2, come find Lord VileCore [PyRoNiclEs]. Bring a fire extinguisher >:D

Oh, and quickly (I forgot to add this to my previous rant): Does anyone else think that "Ron Luce" sounds like a great porn-star name? Or is that just me?

firstly i have no problem with religion but:
What can i say these people simply confuse me,
What on earth make them think that parents will acknowledge a word he says, plus what he comes out with is aload of tripe anyway!
Who says god doesnt play games, he could be sitting in impatience waiting for the release of fable 2!
Again who decided that he is important enough for anyone to listen, is he a complete moron, does he not realise that just because he is religous he is not some superior god who all will follow,
People like this do my nut in
Luke
Can i also annotate this section of the guys words =
"If you let the wrong things in, these terrorists will seduce your kids, impart harmful values and, in doing so, inject poison into your kids' worldview that could follow them for the rest of their lives." (Harmful values like questioning a strict Christian belief system, Ron?)
So what he is saying EVERYONE is christian and therfore EVERYONE must not play games so EVERYONE can be christians and EVERYONE can generally die of bordem this isnt 100bc
You are a clueless muppet who is trying to send totally utter rubbish into the minds of people who do you think you are seriously, im fiftenn years old and find you a complete moron

people love to blame new technology on societies ills, in the olden days it used to be radio, then it was tv, now its video games

I don't know why MCV has given this fools ravings gravity by posting it as 'news'. I

Consoles as bad as ‘sexual predators’ for kids, and don’t be forgetting that Muslim paedophile living under your child’s bed either!

@Androvich:

"with hundreds of consoles...."

Hundreds? So we're talking a couple of HUNDRED consoles??

So let me get this straight, as long as I just read the bible and get away from diffrent media, my brain won't be 'damaged' with sex and violence?

Wrong, the bible is full with both of them. And when I would go out in the streets, having gained only knowledge from the bible, people 'll find me a freak and use violence to 'teach me a lesson'.

If God approves the bible, then he loves videogames