Narrative Media and Sin

What about fantasy media? Such as something that uses "magic" but with no witchcraft or other explanation? Or non-human beings that are sentient, be they aliens/monsters/machines/whatever? Or fictional settings that have fictional religions but do not go into depth? How do we address these?

The problem with Magic in reality is that humans are incapable of performing it without divine aid. Barring miracles, 100% of magic comes from the Devil, and that is why it is sinful to use it.
In contrast, usually magic in fantasy settings comes from within the user, without outside influence. This is not any more sinful than lifting weights, because in that setting, it is something intrinsic to the user.
I can't find any problem with it as long as the distinction is made that it is fiction and not reality. Perhaps you could make an argument that as these things behave sentiently, then perhaps they have souls as humans do, but I don't think you could really make that argument successfully given that it's a fictional universe and plays by different rules.
Consider that a pantheon of gods in a fictional world might very well exist, given that it is fictional and the author can do whatever he pleases with it. There is nothing stopping a writer from writing that a pantheon of gods created the world, rather than a single God. It's a completely different universe, and so it would play by different rules.

I avoid anything glorifying demons and magic.

I think the biggest issue is whether or not the sin is simulated or not. You can fake murder, theft, etc., but immodesty, blasphemy, and many other things simply cannot be portrayed without actually committing the sin. To the extent that the movie/book/whatever contains actual, unsimulatable sin, it is offensive to God. The audience, by continuing to expose themselves to it, are playing a part in assenting to this sin.

Of course, even where things do not approach sin *per se*, we ought to remember that pleasure inclines us toward the things from which we receive that pleasure. So if you're spending a lot of time taking pleasure in, say, slasher films, you're allowing yourself to be desensitized to those displays of sin. This isn't an absolute thing, but it does call for moderation and self reflection.

Yes, it’s the how more than the what in this case…even if a Christian should avoid crass representations of those sins in media and art. One thing is, for example, nudity or even eros, another is lewd faux “art” and pornography.

To elaborate a bit on non-human beings/fantasy races, what about any being in the media work that was artificially created? Is that a problem?

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With movies you imagine you're the main character and you do everything the main character does. So if the main character is a White Knight who smites evil then that's a good thing since you'll image you're smiting evil.

However I was watching "Fist Fight" one time and it was all about 2 teachers who were going to fight each other. The main character was doing everything he could to avoid the fight including planting drugs on the other teacher. And in order to get the drugs he had to steal them from a student. Everything he did made me feel dirty that I had to stop watching.

If I kept watching it everything he did would have been normalized and I would become less averse to doing it myself. The end could very well have been positive, but everything leading up that was so immoral it shouldn't be watched.

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Upon further consideration the narrative has switched from heroes PWNing villains to pathetic White Knights and abusive thugs.

We therefore shouldn't consume such toxic content and should instead work on our novels including music, programing, Chess or any other creative and intelligent endeavors.

Ridiculous.

This is an interesting idea. Narrative media with good themes and messages. Could be both enjoyable to make and helpful for both the writer and the consumer. If subtle enough, might promote Christian values to other people too.
The dangers to avoid would be slipping into secular and other sinful themes, or forgetting the reason for producing the media and doing it primarily for fame or profit instead.

As part of that narrative switch women have started taking over for men in terms of being White Knights.

The problem is Non-Christians identify with the villains. So the villains have been getting better and better treatment as time goes on.

When I was in High School and I spent most of my days going to school and doing homework I was appalled by the violence in Gladiator and Fight Club. However violence is part of being a man. It's only bad when it's used to commit injustice, however correcting injustice also requires violence.

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As with everything ask yourself
If it does i.e. straight up pornography then probably

I thought of two possible ways of writing villains in the hopes of avoiding this. The first would be writing villains that are horribly grotesquely evil that no one would sympathize with them. The issue with this would be that today people are fascinated with even some of the most evil of characters.

The other way I can think of would be instead of straight villains, using antagonists that go through redemption to become morally better people. The problem here is running the risk of people empathizing with them too early, before the redemption occurs.

All that being said, as much as I like this idea of producing media that promotes Christin values, I don't want to derail the main topic of this thread.

Maybe we ought to recommend more proper media for christians here?

Quite disagree, if anything, they're making religious people the villain in some of the media, like if thrusting god and the church is some kind fanaticism.

Is anime/manga sinful, lads? Even the light ones that doesn't contain sexual content and extreme violence like Koe no Katachi, Toradora!, Aria, Ghibli etc.?

What does the Catholic Church say about this?

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Fan service like sucking on a popsicle or showing ass shots is bad, but there's still some redeeming qualities.

For example there's still generally the good guys versus the bad guys and motivational dialogue about working harder and not giving up.

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