"Do you think partly this is because gamers are observed as having a self-indulgent time, enjoying themselves with no unpleasant restrictions?  That must feel very irritating to the people who clutch religious rules to their chests such as bacon…"

"Hello first of all to everyone on the forum.  Thought it would be nice to join and participate some, especially as some of the recent topics concern me somewhat personally, as does this one :=) So here my 2 cents for what it is…"

"I wonder why people like that are so down on video games and such whereas they spend hours a week glued to the TV watching totally irrelevant activities like football, baseball, golf, tennis, basketball, and soccer? The amount of time wasted on…"

"Lol, without my glasses I thought it said "Why are Germans looked down on.... " Anyways, as to the subject of gaming, it's mostly because republicans are conservative and they simply do not understand the subject at all. Nothing more…"

"i find this really ridiculous to exclude someone from a job because of what he does in his spare time .. it doesn't matter if i prefer to game, read, jog, or even do nothing at all ataring at the blank wall all day as long as the job is…"

"I've also come up against a lot of negativity from my family when it comes to my online gaming.  While they haven't said that I am opening myself up to demons (yet) they have confronted both my husband and me about playing games…"

"They see what you do as a game. They take religion more seriously."

"We see nutty people, sorry. Does she watch day time soap operas, or just the 700 club/cult? I wonder what she would say about people that study nature, or play chess?"

"they are just jealous of our amazing hand eye coordination"

"Hail Satan! Yahweh is the only evil I can think of in the bible."

"Because there is more of them than there is of us."

"Here's a different take on it by a religious nut. A close member of my family thinks that I am opening myself up to demons by playing Skyrim, Dragonage, and the like.  She says that when I play these games my belief (as she sees it) in my…"

"Yeah, it's all about numbers. Sixteen million firmly grounded in reality versus possibly 150 million who play "Sky Fairy where art' thou?""

"This is not actually a contradiction--at least not on their part.  It may be stupid, but it is not a contradiction. It is because the religious right believes this stuff exists that they think a gamer is unfit for office, and just generally…"