The first thing to strike me about Candy Crush Saga (hereafter referred to as CCS) was just how childish it is – the bright colours, the music, the candy, the mythical creatures and places. I can’t believe so many grown adults are addicted to the game. I wouldn’t be caught dead playing it.
God doesn’t want His children to act like children. He expects us to put aside childish ways when we reach adulthood. He expects us to mature physically and spiritually. He expects us to act our age.
1 Cor 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Cor 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
1 Cor 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
A mature, Godly man has the strength of character to carry out God’s commandments, even the difficult ones.
Jdg 8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
But how can you grow spiritually and live up to your duties as a True Christian™ man if you spend hours every day living in a fantasy world? The Christian man should spend his time in prayer (1 Thes 5:17) and meditation on God’s Word (Ps 1:2), not devote his life to something that’s not real.
Maturity is important to God. It stands to reason, then, that Satan wants people to be immature. The goal of CCS is to make adults start behaving like children. And it works. We all know, for example, that children nag. People hooked on CCS constantly nag their friends with requests for more lives instead of paying their way and buying more lives like mature adults.
But did you know that childish behaviour in adults has a sexual component among unbelievers? There’s a perversion called infantilism where adults wear diapers and drink milk from bottles and want to be cared for by someone playing the role of a parent. Disgusting!
There are other dangers in the game you should also be aware of.
The title contains a subliminal message promoting anal love.
The game promotes transgenderism. At the beginning and end of each level, you find out that you are playing the part of a little girl on ridiculous missions, such as to refill a lake with lemonade. God wants us to act like men, not little girls. See the verses above.
The game tries to make dragons seem like mythical creatures by including them alongside creatures like the yeti. This is a direct attack on sacred Scripture.
Ps 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
CCS is a cancer that will eat away your manhood and turn you into a sissy cry-baby stuck in a fantasy world who needs his diaper changed every few hours and gets sexually aroused by it. Don’t play it. Do something useful with your time like pray.
Jas 5:16b The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.