He told me it was because of his religion. What religion is this?
2006-08-29 22:08:02 · 16 answers · asked by hawaiian_shorts91 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It was specifically movies or TV shows featuring the occult.
2006-08-29 22:13:34 · update #1
Your friend is probably a Jehovahs Witness, who believe that magic is against God . a lot of cartoons have ghosts and magic and other things in them that they believe is against the Bible
2006-08-29 22:23:26 · answer #1 · answered by munlitluv 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are branches of a lot of religions that prefer to filter what is watched, read, listened to by their members - especially the younger members. It's essentially an extension of ordinary parental control - don't want your kids to get addicted to junk-food, don't let 'em watch McDonalds ads and so on. Much of today's popular TV and movies has an inherent understanding of occult material as just "entertainment" - nobody necessarily thinks that the ghosts on Scooby Doo are anything human, but for some religious people, the idea of spirits surviving, rather than being, for example, raised up again at the end of days, is offensive and "wrong" and they don't want their family exposed to the idea. I've met Christians who think this way, and Muslims too, so what religion your friend is remains a little bit of a mystery based on just this information.
(Shrugs). Not saying it makes any particular sense to me, and if I'm honest it sounds like an extreme case of sense-of-humor failure, but that's their choice I guess. Mind you, I've even read bible stories to the son of a friend of mine, and been instructed to "edit" them. No word of a lie, I've read a verson of Noah's Ark where no-one dies in the flood! What people think is important to avoid or filter out is an extremely personal choice, and isn't required to make sense to the rest of us.
2006-08-29 22:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some fanatic religion I guess. There are many small cults groups that use the name religion to spread their propaganda. I don't understand how Scooby Doo can do much harm. Maybe Lord of the Ring as it's quite violence for small kids.
2006-08-29 22:18:14 · answer #3 · answered by Jo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so enable me see right here it is the comic strip's fault you tried occult stuff no longer the face which you desperate to try this, and once you probably did all this occult "stuff" the place have been your mothers and fathers? This foundation is extremely like saying it is McDonald's fault that usa is fat. I comprehend that youngsters are surely prompted whether it is the accountability of the mothers and fathers to instruct their infants. Too many folk in this international seek for to blame all their issues on television, video games, information superhighway etc different then looking interior the mirror.
2016-10-01 02:08:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
His parents are wrong...
He needs to rent out the following...
The 'Magdelen Sisters' and make his parents watch it along with getting hold of the documentry 'Sex in a cold Climate'
The 'Pit and the Pendulum' , the colour version form 70s 80s or 90s...
And get books out on the witch burning and inquistions.
'The Crucible' with Winola Ryder
The film 'Carrie' the origonal with reference to the mother.
By force if necessary to force his parents to see how wrong they have been s all show the crimes of his parents relgion and that its the wrong one not the magic and witch craft stuff his parents dont like...
The truth is that wich pagan stuff his parents want to hide from him were rthe good guys and his relgioun was the bad based on facts...
Historical facts show the relgions abuse...
His parents have no evidence to back up their thinking.
2006-08-29 22:30:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone can assume.... But all that wht you speak of.... I haven't even got a t.v or playstation or video, or computer, or radio, or hifi..... Do i miss what the secular world calls entertainment.... no bruv, no again, and lastly but most firmly No. I have learnt of the perversity of laughter, it aint funny, does that make anyone laugh. People laugh at things for all kinds of reasons. God is good. See ya.
2006-08-30 02:34:29 · answer #6 · answered by HOPE 4 THE FUTURE: 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Might be the Jehovah's Witnesses. They are against anything with ghosts, witchcraft, wizardry, demons....all of that supernatural magical mystical kinda stuff that makes for a great story.
2006-08-29 22:13:53 · answer #7 · answered by sueflower 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill or Eastenders, but I am not sure why that was!
Mormons are very strict people arent they maybe he is a mormon, have you ever seen him drink coffee?
2006-08-29 22:19:22 · answer #8 · answered by Lulu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some really strict Baptist churches are against movies, tv, music, etc. Or maybe it was just because of the content (violence, ratings, etc).
2006-08-29 22:12:37 · answer #9 · answered by p2of9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many fundamentalist Christian families have taboos against anything that does not strictly come from God. Anything that involves fantasy, magic, ghosts, etc.... definitely not from God, therefore, definitely not appropriate.
2006-08-29 22:22:15 · answer #10 · answered by Katia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋