The NXR Podcast - June 18, 2022


QUESTIONS - Is It Effeminate For Men To Play Video Games?


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00:00:20.960 Chat from MindBend256.
00:00:23.960 Any thoughts on video games?
00:00:26.180 Cool.
00:00:26.700 It's a short question, and therefore I'll give a long answer.
00:00:30.600 I'll try to make it brief.
00:00:32.720 Yeah, I think video games,
00:00:33.760 I would agree with guys like Michael Foster, right?
00:00:36.100 So Michael Foster and Non Tenant.
00:00:38.040 I know Non better than I know Michael.
00:00:39.540 I like Non a lot.
00:00:40.340 He's a friend, lives in New Zealand.
00:00:41.680 But both of them co-authored the book,
00:00:43.640 It's Good to Be a Man.
00:00:44.620 Fantastic book.
00:00:45.380 I highly recommend it
00:00:46.340 if you want to read something on biblical patriarchy
00:00:48.460 and just biblical masculinity
00:00:50.380 that's not this weak, squishy, complementarian stuff,
00:00:53.160 but real good biblical truth on manhood.
00:00:57.580 It's good to be a man.
00:00:59.300 And just for the record,
00:01:00.000 I like Michael Foster says this, when we say it's good to be a man, we don't mean it's bad to be a
00:01:04.000 woman, but we're not going to have that disclaimer. Every single time we talk about that, I can just
00:01:08.220 say it's good to be a man and it's good to be a woman, but I don't have to say that every single
00:01:13.120 time. It's just, it's good to be a man. It's not something to be ashamed of. It's not something
00:01:17.400 wrong. It's good to be a man. So read that book, Michael Foster. He talks a little bit about video
00:01:21.980 games and things like that. I don't know if he talks about it so much in the book, but I've heard
00:01:25.460 him in some of his podcasts and other platforms talking about that issue. And what he says in a
00:01:30.080 nutshell is this. He says that a lot of video games that are geared towards men, most video
00:01:34.020 games are, it's exactly what God gave to Adam as his mandate in the garden, but in a fake world,
00:01:43.800 all right? Like World of Warcraft, you know, or I don't even know. I haven't played video games
00:01:48.760 in a very long time, although I can beat Mario 3 for the NES in under 13 minutes with one life.
00:01:59.180 Yes, I use three whistles. Nope, I use two whistles. You use one whistle to get to the
00:02:03.620 whistle map, and then you use another whistle on the whistle map that takes you straight to
00:02:08.440 the eighth world, bada boom, bada bang. So I'm fantastic, Mario 3. But even that, it's been
00:02:13.480 years since I've played Mario 3. So I think the most recent game that I've played that's actually
00:02:18.640 been like developed is Halo. And when I say Halo, I mean the first Halo. Halo 2, it's like two guns
00:02:23.720 at the same time. This is chaotic, right? It's either Christ or chaos, way too much chaos with
00:02:29.020 dual wielding. I just want a grenade in one hand and a gun in the other. Halo's as far as I got,
00:02:33.900 right? Now, all that said, my point is, I think Michael Foster is right. You look at a lot of
00:02:39.040 video games, maybe not Mario, but the first person shooters, but especially these video
00:02:43.040 games where you're building worlds. You're, you're literally like the, the game is to build
00:02:48.240 civilizations and develop armies and then also commodities and resources and this and that. And
00:02:54.220 like that, that there's already a game like that, that God made. It's called life. It's called the
00:03:00.880 human existence. It's, it's called this world, God's world. And I think, you know, men, it's
00:03:08.340 kind of like, you could say it like this. In the same way that pornography, it's not just that it's
00:03:15.600 perverse, that it's wicked in that sense, that it's perverse, but it takes something good in men,
00:03:23.320 not speaking of women, not even speaking of that element of pornography, but just as it relates to
00:03:27.540 men, it's taking something that God has put in you and wasting it, right? If you're a married
00:03:34.180 man and you're looking at pornography, you are draining the godly affection that is supposed to
00:03:41.020 be for your wife. You're wasting it. You're giving your strength to women, right? As the scripture,
00:03:47.360 do not give your strength to women. Well, also don't give your strength to video games. So I
00:03:52.700 don't think that it's just inherently wrong to play video games at all, right? So I'm not making
00:03:59.380 some hard, fast, legalistic rule, but you know what I mean, right? Take this with a grain of
00:04:05.040 salt. Within measure, there is a point where you're giving your strength to video games,
00:04:12.040 meaning you're giving a lot of time and a lot of thought, right? To where even when you shut off
00:04:17.820 the game, you're still thinking about it. You're giving your heart and soul, your intent,
00:04:23.560 your strategies, your thinking, your obsession, your ambition is being drained, right? I think
00:04:33.440 for the population as a whole, right? Our government loves marijuana, right? Drain the
00:04:39.200 population of their ambition. Keep them docile, right? Give weed to the populace, give porn to
00:04:45.700 the men, and give video games to boys, right? It's just like that's in every way. It's the
00:04:51.800 same principle. It's just, there's something good. It's good to be a man, and it just drains it.
00:04:59.120 It decreases it. It makes men docile. And the last thing I'll say in sympathy towards men
00:05:05.700 is I think that one of the reasons why men are prone towards video games is because they have
00:05:11.840 been so exasperated by life, right? The Bible says, fathers, do not exasperate your sons.
00:05:19.420 and i think a lot of men they're like yeah i'd rather be doing these kinds of things in real
00:05:24.960 life but how like our world is so subdued by the spirit of feminism our world hates men
00:05:35.620 and men feel that right they're like our world hates men and hates masculinity they don't want
00:05:44.080 me to build. They don't want me to contribute to society. They don't want me to be a leader.
00:05:49.420 They won't let me lead. They won't let me do this. They won't let me do that. But at least I'm still
00:05:53.360 allowed to do it in this echo chamber, in this virtual fake reality. At least there, I can
00:06:00.400 pretend to be a man. I can't even pretend to be a man in the world, in the real world.
00:06:07.360 and i get that i've felt that um and i guess my answer to you is uh get over it
00:06:17.320 try try harder keep going it's not a suggestion from god it's not an option take it or leave it
00:06:25.600 it's a command you were made to be a man it's good to be a man you must be a man you're commanded
00:06:31.640 to be a man. You are commanded to work, to produce, to protect, to lead, to love. You're
00:06:39.120 commanded to be a man, whether society loves men or hates them. I mean, in that sense,
00:06:46.780 it's no different than the principle of being a Christian. There are times throughout church
00:06:50.360 history, right? The dispensational premill will lose her mind when I say this, but there have
00:06:54.240 been times when everyone's not all against Christians, when Christians aren't always
00:06:59.960 being persecuted. When those who are Christians are praised, right? That's what John Bunyan writes
00:07:06.240 in his Pilgrim's Progress. He talks about Mr. By-ins is one of the characters. I love Pilgrim's
00:07:11.260 Progress. But Mr. By-ins, he's basically, the whole thing is he just does things that benefit
00:07:17.040 himself. He's a man of convenience. He is a Christian in word, not really in deed, but he is
00:07:22.560 a Christian, a false convert, but claims to be a Christian, but a fair weathered fan, if you will.
00:07:29.440 and he he has this one line he says i love to walk with religion and john bunyan as all the
00:07:34.600 puritans they're using the word religion in the positive sense right that's really a recent
00:07:38.840 phenomenon in american christianity is like it's not a religion it's a relationship religion was
00:07:43.440 a good thing so bunyan's using it in the good way he's like i love to walk with religion when it
00:07:49.420 wears its silver slippers right when it's paraded in the public and receives the praise of men
00:07:56.360 But when religion is under fire, when it's not popular, when religion is named public enemy number one, well, then maybe I don't walk with religion very much, or at least not publicly, right?
00:08:11.920 So that's the principle applied to just the Christian faith, right?
00:08:16.680 We can't be fair-weathered friends.
00:08:18.120 There are times where society and culture actually praises as virtue what the Christian
00:08:25.460 faith, the scripture, would call a virtue.
00:08:28.000 And there are other times, like the times that we're living in, where what God says
00:08:34.000 is good, wicked men call wicked.
00:08:37.980 Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.
00:08:41.340 and so then what is the marching orders from our commander-in-chief jesus christ in those times when
00:08:49.840 when we live in this upside down world where virtue is demonized and vices are praised
00:08:56.260 what are we called to do be christians the orders haven't changed so it is with being a man
00:09:06.820 So I see the appeal of video games.
00:09:09.400 It's the one place, one of the few places where a man can be a man.
00:09:13.860 The problem is that that's a lie.
00:09:17.460 You're not being a man.
00:09:19.440 You're being a virtual man.
00:09:21.920 And a virtual man is not a man.
00:09:25.320 So go be a man, even in a world that currently doesn't want you to be a man.
00:09:32.500 The world that doesn't want men
00:09:34.160 is a world that is in desperate need of men.
00:09:38.340 So be men.
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