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Pokémon Your Way to Hell

It's super effective!

Regional TV evangelists are essentially a bottomless well of insane, ill-informed hyperbole, so it honestly shouldn't be too surprising to see this nutty diatribe on the satanic powers of Pokémon. Still, it's a slow news day, and I enjoy things that are profoundly absurd, so here we go!
   

 
 
I really enjoy how this guy spends the first full minute explaining, in pretty concise, accurate detail, what Pokémon are, before launching into this awesome paranoid rant about dark realms and evil forces. I mean, seriously dude, it's just Pokémon. It's not like we're talking about Digimon or, God forbid, Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Wow the church is really behind on this "issue in society."

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GUARD THE CHILDREN, IT'S THE POCKET MONSTERS!!

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Oh I'd fuck a friend up for a Jigglypuff don't think I wouldn't

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All I can do is laugh at this.

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Best part? At 1:42, when he says "Your children needs to know there's a devil..." and its on a picture of Jigglypuff.

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Satan called, he's pro-pokemon now.

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hahahahhahahahahahaha.
 
This guy is a fucking idiot.  I believe in Jesus everything, but I hate calling myself a "christian" because of stupid bastards like this guy.  No wonder everyone thinks christians are morons that just blindly believe anything these insane people say.  And the sad thing is, the majority of christians are most likely like that, but just letting you people know that there are those of us out there that aren't completely insane. 
 
Also, I totally remember being in christian elementary school when everyone started flipping out. It's pretty pathetic when even a 4th grader realizes that saying pokemon is demonic is one of the most insane things ever, but for some reason the multitude adults in the christian community don't realize it. Whenever I see things like this video it makes me depressed because I realize how unintelligent a lot of people in this world truly are.

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lol

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Every people in that room is now on my hate list. think of that poor mans son his life must be terrible to have him for a father.

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Well, he's got me convinced. Time to find a new avatar.

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I love the transition around :50
 
"In the DARK REALM"

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Ladies and Gentlemen,  the Republican Party!

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@TerraDelu said:
"Ladies and Gentlemen,  the Republican Party! "

So I assume you are a Democrat? You're supposed to be open minded, right? Riiiiight...judging the entire Republican party by and idiot priest.  
 
Wow, Democrats are so open minded and accepting!
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I seriously rofl'd when the Jigglypuff pic came up.
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hahahahhahaha

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Well Pokemon is a violent game when you think about it...

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Oh jeez

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@ZombiePie said:
" Well Pokemon is a violent game when you think about it...

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Yup. Enslaving animals for a sport.
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Jigglypuff is the devil
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@SoulEdgeSlayer said:
" Best part? At 1:42, when he says "Your children needs to know there's a devil..." and its on a picture of Jigglypuff. "
Agreed. 
 
But jeez, slow news day it is.
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Ya know, I never thought of it that way.
*Shoots self in Face*

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@nick_verissimo said:
" Ya know, I never thought of it that way. *Shoots self in Face* "
Did you respawn yet?
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jiggly Puff will SWAALLLOW YOUR SOOOOOOOOOULLLLL!  Also.....Good fucking god.....That Pokemon ski mask is fucking scary.  Esp for some reason on that heavy set woman.  If I ran into her in a dark alley, first thought would be OMG shes going to rape me!!  Haha, just had a thought.  She would also be pretty EPIC in a Manhunt game LOL.  Hear her smacking a wood bat against the walls coming for you...Real slow like!
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@animateria said:
" @nick_verissimo said:
" Ya know, I never thought of it that way. *Shoots self in Face* "
Did you respawn yet? "
Ya, but then I got killed after taking two steps.  I hate it when people camp re-spawns.
Come on you guys!
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Alright. I'm Christian and I see that entire video as WTF. Pokemon are demonic?

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"Why....? Why?....WHY?!?!?!"

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Hmm. If JIgglypuff is the devil, I'd hate to be on the business end of Wigglytuff.
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It's nice to see Jack Thompson back at work. He never needed the actual law in his last job. Clearly, he doesn't need the Bible to back up his arguments in this job either.  
 
One more thing...If anyone is doing the devil's work, it's this guy - driving people away from God.

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@Jayzilla said:

" While I find this completely laughable; it upsets me that us gamers are stereotyping christians just the same way that it upsets all gamers when they are stereotyped as shiftless, slackers who live in their mothers basements. I am a christian. I am a gamer. I would hope that one of our groups would take the high road and not continue to stereotype each other. If you don't like crazy over the top preachers that have no idea what they are talking about(i know i don't) that is fine. Just don't lump those of us that happen to share their same faith in the same group. To have to get the same kind of hypocritical abuse from both gamers and christians is more than i can handle sometimes. In short, don't stereotype if you  don't like being stereotyped. It makes you just as insane and hypocritical as that guy in the video. "

Word, brother. Couldn't have said it better, and as a fellow christian and gamer I completely agree (I'm also a rocker, a geek, a singer, a smoker, a student, Dutch and fat... if all stereotypes were suddenly true I'd probably explode or something). We're living proof both stereotypes are pretty retarded... on that note, all stereotypes are.

People should think about what it is, exactly, that makes clips like these seem stupid and just plain wrong... and then think twice before doing the exact thing they hate.

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While I do understand, and can even sympathize a bit, with the people saying "Not ALL Christians are like that!", keep in mind that your most vocal "leaders" are out of they're damn minds!  How else are we supposed to perceive you if the ones that do all the talking for you are spouting crazy about how playing some video game is a one way ticket to an eternity in PainfullFireLand?  Stand up to these jagoffs and tell them to shut up if you don't like people thinking that this is all you and your faith stand for.

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This guy has a killer unibrow. What spiritual forces are behind it?? hehe JK

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Why, why, why, WHY! *In a Texan-esqe accent* 
 
Dude, really? I'm not Christian, so I can't say much on the subject but no offense to anyone, but that is just pathetic.  

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....are u serious?

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How old is this video? While Pokemon games still do relatively well, it's nowhere near and controversial as it once was. I believe part of the upset school and religious officials were giving the franchise was that kids would get into fist fights over Pokemon cards and so forth. I still think it was pretty funny how one of the other Giantbomb users said this was Youtube spam. :P

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Go here and click on Pokemon Rap. All shall be revealed.

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"WHAAAE?"

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Will Ferrell imitating George W. Bush was  televangelist ?

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Oh, and I love how he flags the fact that children have stabbed other children over Pokémon. Uhhh... dude? I'm pretty sure that people have tried to wipe out entire races in the name of The Almighty.

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I've always been surprised that this "demonic" stuff is the controversy surrounding Pokemon.  You know, as opposed to the fact that the game is virtual dog-fighting.   
 
Note: As long as it's just virtual dog-fighting, I got no problem with it.
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so i hope it wasn't a purposeful choice to have jigglypuff be on screen while talking about satan...

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This man gets it.
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This man speaks the not truth?

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The last time someone stole my Charmander, I tore the bastard in half with my bare hands.  That's the power of becoming a pokemon master.  If that preacher knows what's good for him, he'll shut the fuck up.

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ha that is funny. pokemon= devil. i just think yo-gi-oh is more devlish then anything. i watched the first season on youtube. there was a lot of references to a person's soul. yugi's puzzle had a soul in there, peggisses stole yugi's grandfather, also stole kiva and brother, yugi's grandfather was taken, yugi's friend had an evil soul, bandit keith soul was taken from some dude, the dude can take a lot of people's soul.  a lot of things about souls in there.  in that example u see yo-gi-oh is more of a devil.

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that was great.

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why...... Why......... Why......... WHY?! 

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Showing something so ridiculously unintentionally hilarious is more fitting to what I imagine what the devil's work would be.
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