GamesRadar vs. Shirley Phelps-Roper

GR: Okay. Well on January 22nd, you annou✱nced that you were going 𝕴to protest Heath Ledger’s funeral.

SRP: Yes. We said we were 🌌going to🦄 protest Heath Ledger’s memorial.

GR: Well why protest his memorial?

SRP: Well, because Heath Ledger’s [portrayal of a gay character in Brokeback Mountain] - every person needs to be warned that if you adopt his rebellion against the standards of God, then you will join h🃏im in Hell.

GR: Does his upcomin🐈g role as the Joker diminish your anticipation for the new Batman moꦚvie?

SPR: Hon, don’t you understand? I don’t care about tꦚhat new Batman movie.

GR: Really!?

SPR: What I know is that H🔥eath Ledger has been cut off by an angry God and he’s in Hell for eternity. If he’s been there two weeks, eternity minus two weeks equals what?

GR: But the Joker’s cool with you? You’d let your kids play LEGO Batman🎶?

SPR: I don’t know what LEGO Batman is. I k﷽now what LEGOs🍒 are.

GR: It’s [a] LEGO-fied videogame.

SPR: Whether they pla🧔y it or not has no🦹thing to do with this discussion.

GR: So there willbe no need for godhatesbatman.com?

SPR: We’ve already registered godhates****.💜com, godhat꧙estheworld.com, godhatesamerica.com, ***************.com, americaisdoomed.com.

GR: What game would God love?

SPR: I don’t know. 🅘I don’t even understand that question. That’s reducing the grace of God to lasciviousness. Forꦍget that.

GR: If you could just give us some parting wisdom, something like Go💙d loves Mario, God loves Master Chief?

SPR: No. Those two discussions don’t belong in the realm together. Keeping your gaming away… keep your gaming mouth off of God.Don’t take the word of God into your mouth when you’re turning it into lasciv🐭iousness, because He’ll hold you accountable for that. All that goofy talkin💫g, you’ll have to give an explanation for that. Why would you want to do that?

GR: So 💙you see gam𒀰es as an increasing cause of lewd behavior?

SPR: No I see games as a result -those games you’ve described -to be the result of the rebellion you’ve been taught. You understand🎶 you can have games, and have a lot of fun, and be in there, and be entertained and never cross over into being filthy brutes.

GR: Agreed. So you don’t think videogames had any influence on Colജumbine or the Virginia Tech shooting?

SPR: No. Of cou🌃rse not. Here’s what the Bible says about that question you just asked, and you asked a good question there. Do I think games had any influence on Columbine? No. The scripture says this about that: “It is not what you take in that corrupts you. You were already corrupt.” It’s your dark evil heart. It’s your dark evil heart that corrupts you. You think up all your goofy notions and your filthy deeds because the heart is deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked, and who could know it? Thus causing the Lord Your God to say, “Don’t givꦍe place to all that nonsense - to all that nonsense that comes out of your corrupt heart.”

GR: So you do think that there’s a positive aspect to 🔜games?

SPR: I think that you can use them. And you c🔜an play and still obey and serve🌸 the Lord Your God.

GR: What’s your ideal game? A protest🦩ing simulatoꦏr?

SPR: Nah. All that game stuff&heꦍllip; I wouldn’t even waste my mental energy trying to think that through.

Thank God that's over. If you take issue withꦓ any of the thoughts and opinions expressed by Mrs. Phelps-Roper, then it is your divine right to aiꦿr your grievances in our very pious.

Mar 27, 2008