1. ''If The Devil Had To Invent A Game, It Would Be This One...''
Peter Hitchens, brother of prominent author and anti-religion campaigner Christopher Hitchens, wrote a piece for UKs Daily Mail where he said GTA V was the game the Devil would invent. He said;
"If the Devil had his own bible, it would probably take the form of a computer game. It would be sly and witty, enjoyable and slick. It would start with small, almost funny misdeeds. It would offer the player the joys of money, successful violence and easy, responsibility-free sex. There would be drugs which didnt fry your brain or burn holes in your nose. You would be made to feel brave, while not actually needing to be. None of your pleasures would be paid for in coin, pain or grief. Everyone else in the game would be disposable and forgettable. And it would contain one big lie. You would come out at the end happy and unharmed, and wanting more."
After this statement, he said that this is roughly GTA V in a nutshell and that thousands of 14 year olds are playing it in bedroomsNEAR YOU!!! Hitchens then goes on to link games with mass shootings and blames the liberal media for insisting that guns are the real problem and not games, but the best bit in the article was a piece where he told a story about a time in France when he saw a vision of hell.
''Many years ago in a French seaport town, I saw what I still think was a vision of evil. In a grubby cafe, a boy of about 11 or 12 was ceaselessly feeding coins into one of the crude gaming machines then available. His eyes were blank, the skin of his face was dry and horribly pale. He looked as if he rarely ate. He was (this was, after all, France) smoking a cigarette. I swore at that moment that I would protect any child under my authority from this influence.''
Brilliant.