The NXR Podcast - June 18, 2022


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

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Michael Foster John Bunyan Non Tenant Adam Halo
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Length

9 minutes

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173.73

Word count

1,725

Sentence count

98

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Hate speech

5

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In this episode, the boys talk about video games and why it's not a bad thing to play them. They also talk about pornography and why you shouldn't be wasting your time and energy on them. If you've been blessed by our content and you like this show, please leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts!

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, real quick before we get started, I have a small request.
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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. 0.94
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 0.89
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 1.00
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 0.58
00:07:11.260 Progress. But Mr. By-ins, he's basically, the whole thing is he just does things that benefit 0.99
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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