Chess is a sin?

I was born and raised in the Church of Christ and I have never heard of such before. When we had an active club in this area we used the Church of Christ annex where I was a member to play chess some.

The chess pieces have different "powers" within the game of chess. But nothing outside of those 64 squares, I assure you.

 

Quick! Somebody call Bob Larson!

Joseph Botwinick

 

Now, how could chess be "against God?" Maybe by having a king besides Jesus. Maybe by having bishops who rank above knights in power. Maybe by the exploitation of "pawns" to protect the nobles. Maybe by having exceptional rules for certain situations ['castling;' en passant]. Maybe by use of the term "mate."

Actually, the ones who might be expected to oppose the game for its rules and terms apparently do not... communists (class system), Democrats (pawns less freedom than nobles), Republicans (rulers hereditary, not elected), feminists (trapped king ends game; trapped queen does not), Baptists (bishops should not have power of nobility), animal rights activists (knights shouldn't 'abuse' horses by riding them into battle), liberals (black and white are equal; no affirmative action by giving black team an extra piece), "children's advocates" (the game is essentially about war).

 

The game of Clue encourages lying and murder! Conga actually is a voo-doo game and when you squish the play-doh, African God's are apeased! Trivial Pursuit is idle hands and well... we all know what that'll cause!

 

How about checkers?

HankD

 

Checkers?? The red stands for blood and the black stands for evil and the black and white squares ... it's a racist game! Don't even get me started on Doggie Doggies Who's Got Your Bone and Jump Rope!

 

Checkers is easy to figure. How can a Christian be involved in anything that requires him to jump somebody?

 

Chess is evil because I never win.
Just kidding. I've won a few times.

I think it's a fab game for ppl with huge brains.

 

Before you know it, eating crackers will be a sin.

 

Crackers? Crackers? Are you going Catholic on us Saggy? LOLOLOL Just use holey cheese like Swiss.

 

It not just a church of Christ thing I had an aunt (who was baptist) like that chess, card, almost all game was sin. But not rook card.

And don't get me started on pop goes the weasla

 

I think people read to much into thing a lot of times. I think people who say that chess is a sin to play needs to reconcider there faith because chess is just a game and it's not meant to be read into. I mean if we read into every little thing then everything that is out there someone would concider to be a sin.

 

What Bob Larson are y'all talking about? I know of a Bob Larson and the name caught my attention.

 

Whoa....never mind the question. Found the website! Definitely not my Bob Larson!

 

Apparantly it is banned in some Islamic countries for a similar reason of it being against God, although I dont know what that is, I thought it may have been because they dont like the depictions of Knights?