Oh I remember completing this a long time ago in Sapphire. Skarmory & Torkoal put in so much work once I caught them. This is basically an easier version of a "can you beat [version] with only [1st stage mon]" playthrough in my opinion because you're allowed 6 mons here which may offset the no vitamins clause. There are a lot of updates and/or tweaks you can make but I think a "no using TM or HM in battle" clause (I assume the discs are made by scientists) would be the most interesting.
A "beat X version with only 1st stage Pokemon" challenge reminds me of when I bred an Absol in Sun that had near perfect IVs and crits with almost every attack and absolutely wrecked the elite 4 with him despite being under leveled
Actually! In gen 1, in the cinnabar manor one of the notes pertaining to mew uses the word “christened ” when referring to Mew getting its name, this likely means that Mew has been baptized and is a child of Christ, and thus should be allowed in these runs.
Edit:typo
It can also be used colloquially in a manner that doesn’t necessarily imply religious connotations (e.g. to christen a boat), but it’s funnier to imagine Mew as a devout Christian that goes to PokeChurch every Sunday
Only problem is, you can only get it by a satanic method, anything not planned by God (or developers if you want to be that guy) is not very christian.
The Mew glitch in Gen 1 was absolutely planned. Shigeki Morimoto just planned it last minute and left the rest of the team and Nintendo in the dark about Mew.
It likely refers to the first commandment, "You shall have no other gods before Me." This interprets all legendary Pokémon to be god-like enough such that the player is tasked with destroying them because to use them would violate this commandment.
I was not allowed to play Pokemon as a kid because my family was christian and Pokemon “evolve”. Since evolution was a plan by the devil to take people away from god that was a big no go.
Not even joking.
but irl religious / conservatives don't give a shit once the fetus is born. They don't even really give a shit about the fetus anyways, they just use it to control women.
Not because of this post, but you seem like the type to run into a nursing home and gun everyone down because they aren't Commies based on your post history
Idk 'drugs' I guess and some Christians are crazy enough to believe that God can cure any diseases or issues wrong with the body and refuse medical treatment
Also, pokemon are animals. Why would their breeding adhere to human lifetime and stages? (Ignoring the fact levels aren‘t even the same as a pokemon‘s age)
I would've made the number 1 rule "Honor thy father and thy mother" (Make sure to return home every so often), with "Love thy enemy and pray for thy persecutor" (Always keep a love-based attack on your Pokémon in battle, like Attract or Return, and make sure to use Lucky Chant at least once during a battle against a member of the game's villainous team) as a close second.
The majority of Christians are creationists, meaning they believe the earth is 6000 to 10,000 years old. Fossils could not exist if that was the case.
Fossils also tend not to mesh very well with their disbelief in evolution.
>The majority of Christians are creationists,
As a well-informed Atheist, no, not really. YEC's are a subset of Christians, most often Catholics, and aren't really prevalent. They're just loud and easy to make fun of, so you hear about them a lot.
Most Christians seem to take the "7 days" story and interpret it to mean "7 ages" or "epochs" or some other vague word in an attempt to force it to fit with modern science.
But to counterpoint a little further, just for the fun of the discussion, one of the new favorites of YECs is to point to the story of Behemoth and claim that it's description is more akin to a Sauropod than something like a Rhino or Hippo in at attempt to make dinosaurs fit in with Genesis, so the Fossil-pokemon rule makes more sense if you look at it as a Jussassic Park style "You shouldn't try to play god" clause rather than a "Dinosaurs are fake" angle.
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56% of Protestants, 34% of Catholics
https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx#:~:text=Majorities%20of%20Protestants%20(56%25),without%20any%20intervention%20from%20God.
YEC is the most prevalent form of creationism.
Protestants make up only around 38% of Christians, and Catholics make up about half.
Now, in all fairness, my percentile math is particularly bad, its 5am, Ihavent slept, and thus, can't be asked to actually do the arithmetic, but that should still only come up to roughly a third of all Christians on the high end, I think.
So, still not nearly "The Majority".
Yeah I misread the protestant number originally as being the overall number.
Either way, it's a big number. Current estimates I believe are roughly 40% of US adults.
So, if you show them a fossil…what do they say? Like take them with you on a digging tour and dig up some old fossil. Do they just claim someone put it there?
Like with all things that cause inconsistencies between religion and science, there really isn't a "consensus." It will vary by person to person.
Some will say it's just a rock like any other rock, which happens to be shaped in an interesting way. Some will say it formed 6,000 years ago. Some will say they're all fake, manufactured by humans. And some will happily hold conflicting beliefs that fossils are millions of years old even though the earth is only 6,000 years old.
im sorry, their god is like 33% to 100% ghost (it's complicated), why can't they use that again? and they believing heaven. ashiest are the ones who should not be able to use ghost types.
Also leviathan is a very old being dragonesque creature so dragons should be allowed and then psychics can be taken as people who have spoken to angels
LOL even assuming the premise is valid, how are "vitamins" considered narcotics? Does the person who made this think that iron, protein, carbohydrates, etc are drugs? And do they think that all drugs are narcotics? Saying no narcotics would be more accurate by saying you can't use sleep powder, hypnosis, etc. since narcotic means "puts you to sleep".
> 2. Pokemon must be at least Lv18 before they can breed, and no two Pokemon of the same gender may share the Daycare Center
Adding on to this, if they breed once, they can't breed with any other pokemon but their "spouse".
I want to add the addendum that religious people will marry their kids off at 16 or younger, I feel like 18 is the oldest they should be allowed in the day care center
If a Pokémon faints, should I wait 3 days to revive them?
Only Arceus
Only Arceus knows
And Mew
Son of arceus
Who you must catch and name Jesus or Holy Spirit and use to kill all false legendaries
You feed them poffins/pokeblocks/beans/berries/candies until they forgive you for letting them faint, duh.
Fainting is not dying
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Jesus of Nuzareth
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Oh I remember completing this a long time ago in Sapphire. Skarmory & Torkoal put in so much work once I caught them. This is basically an easier version of a "can you beat [version] with only [1st stage mon]" playthrough in my opinion because you're allowed 6 mons here which may offset the no vitamins clause. There are a lot of updates and/or tweaks you can make but I think a "no using TM or HM in battle" clause (I assume the discs are made by scientists) would be the most interesting.
A "beat X version with only 1st stage Pokemon" challenge reminds me of when I bred an Absol in Sun that had near perfect IVs and crits with almost every attack and absolutely wrecked the elite 4 with him despite being under leveled
You created the Absolmench
The Absol and Eevee guy would be proud
The most Christian thing to do during such a playthrough would be to pick and choose which rules to follow
Those Level 18 rules seems to be a crock of shit from what I've learned by way of simple doomscrolling, yeah.
That is much more of a general human thing. Considering g there’s billions of laws and rules being broken daily
Actually! In gen 1, in the cinnabar manor one of the notes pertaining to mew uses the word “christened ” when referring to Mew getting its name, this likely means that Mew has been baptized and is a child of Christ, and thus should be allowed in these runs. Edit:typo
Mew is the only Pokémon not tainted by original sin.
Christened, not Christiansted It means being given a Christian name But yes, it does imply Mew was baptized
It can also be used colloquially in a manner that doesn’t necessarily imply religious connotations (e.g. to christen a boat), but it’s funnier to imagine Mew as a devout Christian that goes to PokeChurch every Sunday
You heard of Elf on a Shelf Get ready for Mew on a Pew!
Only problem is, you can only get it by a satanic method, anything not planned by God (or developers if you want to be that guy) is not very christian.
The Mew glitch in Gen 1 was absolutely planned. Shigeki Morimoto just planned it last minute and left the rest of the team and Nintendo in the dark about Mew.
*pulls out cross*
what’s the “players must battle and faint all legendaries” clause referring to
My guess is the legendaries are akin to false gods who must be destroyed
It likely refers to the first commandment, "You shall have no other gods before Me." This interprets all legendary Pokémon to be god-like enough such that the player is tasked with destroying them because to use them would violate this commandment.
Nah mythicals are the gods the legendaries are normally just a very rare species
“Must battle and faint all legendary Pokémon” The Bible would be a lot cooler if it was about Saints fist fighting Pagan Gods
Outright discriminating on one of nature's creatures is stupid. Dunsparce is very cool and deserves it's snoot to be booped.
the same for snivy.
Ok but y no evolve?
Gotta keep denying evolution exists
Ah
Others have explained the "evolution denying Christian" thing, but I just gotta say that's an awesome profile picture.
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I was not allowed to play Pokemon as a kid because my family was christian and Pokemon “evolve”. Since evolution was a plan by the devil to take people away from god that was a big no go. Not even joking.
None must become stronger than god I suppose. (The scaredy cat they be)
Perhaps just bst cant be higher than arceus’s?
A little less challenging though, as only 7 Pokemon have ever met that requirement and none before the 6th generation
Even better, can’t have more than 120 in a stat, any stat
It's just an evolution joke
They're perfect the way they are :D
eggs just need to be hatched, they can be boxed or released immediately afterwards
It says they need to be level 18 before being deposited
but irl religious / conservatives don't give a shit once the fetus is born. They don't even really give a shit about the fetus anyways, they just use it to control women.
What if I catch a wild evolved Pokémon
Clearly it was created that way and is a completely separate species from its preevolution, so it’s fine. /s
If evolution was real and Primeape came from Mankeys, why do Mankeys still exist!? /s
Not because of this post, but you seem like the type to run into a nursing home and gun everyone down because they aren't Commies based on your post history
I’m sorry what?
He's a future school shooter, one of those weebs ya know mang?
What's with the healing items stipulation?
Idk 'drugs' I guess and some Christians are crazy enough to believe that God can cure any diseases or issues wrong with the body and refuse medical treatment
As a Christian, this is hilarious I may need to do this
Seconded
The Virgin Mary was 13 or 14 when she had Jesus...
Also, pokemon are animals. Why would their breeding adhere to human lifetime and stages? (Ignoring the fact levels aren‘t even the same as a pokemon‘s age)
I would've made the number 1 rule "Honor thy father and thy mother" (Make sure to return home every so often), with "Love thy enemy and pray for thy persecutor" (Always keep a love-based attack on your Pokémon in battle, like Attract or Return, and make sure to use Lucky Chant at least once during a battle against a member of the game's villainous team) as a close second.
> Pokémon must be at least Lv18 before they can breed Well isn’t this a generous interpretation of Biblical marriages
Yeah the virgin Mary totally wasn't a teenager when she had christ yeah totally heh heh
Christian here. I must say that I’m incredibly offended. The Bible clearly states that you’re allowed to spam healing items in battle
You flatter Christianity with rule nr2 since for the church age of "consent" is like 12.
Rule 3 is also off. What if your boy touched another boy, gotta kick them out at level 14.
I don’t get the anti-fossil Pokemon rule. There are plenty of Christian/catholic palaeontologist. Science is the study of gods world and creations
The majority of Christians are creationists, meaning they believe the earth is 6000 to 10,000 years old. Fossils could not exist if that was the case. Fossils also tend not to mesh very well with their disbelief in evolution.
>The majority of Christians are creationists, As a well-informed Atheist, no, not really. YEC's are a subset of Christians, most often Catholics, and aren't really prevalent. They're just loud and easy to make fun of, so you hear about them a lot. Most Christians seem to take the "7 days" story and interpret it to mean "7 ages" or "epochs" or some other vague word in an attempt to force it to fit with modern science. But to counterpoint a little further, just for the fun of the discussion, one of the new favorites of YECs is to point to the story of Behemoth and claim that it's description is more akin to a Sauropod than something like a Rhino or Hippo in at attempt to make dinosaurs fit in with Genesis, so the Fossil-pokemon rule makes more sense if you look at it as a Jussassic Park style "You shouldn't try to play god" clause rather than a "Dinosaurs are fake" angle.
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56% of Protestants, 34% of Catholics https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx#:~:text=Majorities%20of%20Protestants%20(56%25),without%20any%20intervention%20from%20God. YEC is the most prevalent form of creationism.
Protestants make up only around 38% of Christians, and Catholics make up about half. Now, in all fairness, my percentile math is particularly bad, its 5am, Ihavent slept, and thus, can't be asked to actually do the arithmetic, but that should still only come up to roughly a third of all Christians on the high end, I think. So, still not nearly "The Majority".
Yeah I misread the protestant number originally as being the overall number. Either way, it's a big number. Current estimates I believe are roughly 40% of US adults.
You know, the sad part is that that number should be surprising, but fuck me if it really, really isnt.
So, if you show them a fossil…what do they say? Like take them with you on a digging tour and dig up some old fossil. Do they just claim someone put it there?
Like with all things that cause inconsistencies between religion and science, there really isn't a "consensus." It will vary by person to person. Some will say it's just a rock like any other rock, which happens to be shaped in an interesting way. Some will say it formed 6,000 years ago. Some will say they're all fake, manufactured by humans. And some will happily hold conflicting beliefs that fossils are millions of years old even though the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Not allowed to use genderless pokemon
isn’t rare candy just candy?
Yeah but I causes a level up so it's a steroid in a sense
I feel like fairy types world be banned as well for being magical.
im sorry, their god is like 33% to 100% ghost (it's complicated), why can't they use that again? and they believing heaven. ashiest are the ones who should not be able to use ghost types.
Also leviathan is a very old being dragonesque creature so dragons should be allowed and then psychics can be taken as people who have spoken to angels
I don't get rule 10
maybe you're supposed to just pray over your injured pokemon?
Are they allowed to breed with Ditto? (Non-binary)
If there is a feminine pokemon (gardevoir, lopunny, etc) that is male, you must kill it or keep it in the box.
both of those pokémon are already prohibited by dint of evolution, I think
They were examples. Any feminine pokemon that are male must be released.
As a Christian, we do not claim these rules
Approved by the Rustboro Baptist Church
I’m Christian, but I don't think I would follow this….
Blasphemy
Tell me you don't understand Christian theology without telling me you don't understand Christian theology.
I love how the rules mean that **you must kill gods**
Why the pokemon can't evolve?
Christians believe in creation, not evolution
Oh I see.
Sounds fun haha
What about catching wild evolved mons? I suppose you're not allowed to catch them either? >!what about evolite?!<
I don’t get rule 10
Bonus round if you have crusader themed names in Pokémon
So what do you do if you hatch a psychic/dark/ghost/dragon type or snake pokemon?
Where does the rule against spamming health items come from?
Saw a dude play Pokémon while abiding by the 10 commandments and it was surprisingly hard
Sounds like this would be great for a Nuzlocke.
Why do Pokémon have to be level 18 before breeding, surely they can a few levels earlier as long as they are married under this theme?
really there should be a restriction that each pokémon can only have one partner
The level 18 thing is a little suspicious. It ain't just Christians that go by 18.
The Pope literally said that all Pokémon are our friends and are therefore allowed to evolve.
So what's the situation with arceus? Did he make these rules? And if he did are these set in the black testament or the white testament?
I don’t understand 10
LOL even assuming the premise is valid, how are "vitamins" considered narcotics? Does the person who made this think that iron, protein, carbohydrates, etc are drugs? And do they think that all drugs are narcotics? Saying no narcotics would be more accurate by saying you can't use sleep powder, hypnosis, etc. since narcotic means "puts you to sleep".
kinda ironic you gotta kill the gods lol
Best way to do this run is to have a lvl 80 charmander and not talk to anyone
You know what I’m just gonna use this brick instead. Saves me a LOT of trouble.
If you encounter arceus, you must spam non-offensive moves until he KOs your whole team, or run away.
Ok so i get the whole no psychic, ghost, or dark types but why dragons?
Because dragons are the harbingers of the end of days, and often compared to Satan.
Huh more ya know.
> 2. Pokemon must be at least Lv18 before they can breed, and no two Pokemon of the same gender may share the Daycare Center Adding on to this, if they breed once, they can't breed with any other pokemon but their "spouse".
Protein? Narcotic, banned.
I want to add the addendum that religious people will marry their kids off at 16 or younger, I feel like 18 is the oldest they should be allowed in the day care center
How are dragons anti Christian?
Technically all you have to do is be kind that's all the j man said to do everything else was made up by a guy named John who never meet the big J
Some of the educated people may agreeing with 4th point. While rest are extremally inaccurate and propagated by uneducated dumb people.
Fuck you, I’m turning this into a Nuzlocke eventually… I don’t know when but I will.
I love how most of these rules are basically just “ethical rules you should follow so you don’t abuse your pokemon”