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Nuggets From The Net: Voltron Is The Devil

Posted by Dana Vinson - Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:01 AM

Oh boy, do we have a doozy of a nugget for you today! This little clip comes from a 1984 public access show called "Turmoil in the Toy Box."

In it, two hosts, who implore the power of Jesus to break your household from the bondage of the evil Voltron, talk about how robot based cartoons have "occultic" (that's not even a word, btw) overtones.

First, they set their God Lasers to stun and aim at Voltron and spew some nonsense about how because there are stars in the cartoon, it's obviously about witchcraft.

Then, they turn to the Transformers and are appalled by the fact that cartoon robots actually get shot and killed. Little steam comes out of their lasered bodies. They imply that children will easily be convinced, by seeing giant metal robots destroy each other, that killing is ok.

Obviously, the other best thing about this video, is the set. Including the gingham wingback chairs these douches are sitting on.

 




Comment(s)

Posted by WK17 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 10:40 AM

i couldn't stop laughing at how ridiculous they were, dudes its just a cartoon show if you see it any other way then you need serious help

Posted by scotthea01 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 10:50 AM

Who the hell has the resources to dig up this piece of trash. It looks like the setting of a really bad porno.

Posted by PreventorWind - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 10:57 AM

I thought I was in for a good laugh, until I saw just how brainwashed these guys really are. I knew a mentally challenged (no, not retarded) kid back in High School, and his love of Jesus and Transformers kept him from caving in to the assholes that screwed with him all day long. If he would have seen these douchebags, he might have believed it and killed himself. Or a lot of people. If there is a hell (doubt it), I hope these guys pack aloe vera when they die, because they will need it.

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 11:28 AM

okay 1st off I consider myself a strong christian man.That being said,I dont remember our lord and savior having anything against robots,I mean cmon,obviously the transformers are strong followers of the lord,and well,the decepticons are just aithest. OH wait.there is john7:87 though shalt not waste energon.These guys give christians a bad name. most people are smart enough to know the difference between killing people & robots(unless of course they were in disguise,hmmm)its a cartoon and should be taken as such. and how are kids gonna think its okay to kill from a robot being shot? last time I checked the local wallmart didnt cary a universal bio energy disruptors.(sounds right)Lastly if their kids get killing people is okay from a toon about robots,its not a change in belief structure they need,more like a mental doctor and some checking of thier dna structure 2 find out what link is missing that didnt allow thier brain to fully develope.-robot activist

Posted by SilentSniper - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 12:15 PM

I go against this completely. Yes, there is witchcraft and killing. But it is the bad guys that are doing them, implying that it is bad to do witchcraft and kill. In shows like transformers, they teach us that peace is what we need but violence is neccesary in certain times. Even in the bible they killed people so is the bible violent? Just look at Samson....and the hebrews with the Ark of the Covenant....They killed many people and God helped them too....
This is coming from a 14 year old catholic and that's my point of view. But I might have already been exposed to too much violent shows and its changed my point of view.

Posted by andrew5329 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 12:32 PM

OMFG!!!! AHHHHHH!!!! TRANSFORMERS THE LEAST VIOLENT SHOW IVE WATCHED SINCE THE DAYS OF BARNEY IS AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE ME A MASS MURDERER AS WELL AS A PAGAN, OH WHAT EVER SHALL I DO!!!!

Posted by annoying_tool - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 12:37 PM

Douches indeed.

Posted by kison21 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 1:17 PM

I think I've found Jesus after watching that video...and he was hiding behind the TV set. Getting washed with the blood of Christ huh? Sounds kinda hot.

Posted by PaNfOoT - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 1:22 PM

Sexually oriented robot cartoons? WTF

Posted by Baby_Jesus - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 1:32 PM

sorry i was busy watching robotech!!! and thundercats re-runs

WTF !!!!!

oh man i hate this guys

gives me and my dad a bad rap

Posted by hectorv1979 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 1:32 PM

what douche weasels

Posted by simonnewtboy - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 1:57 PM

ugh, that is the guy from way of the master. He is crazy

Posted by DravenCross - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 2:07 PM

I too am an STRONG Christian and I love transformers. Nobody died in the episode of transformers. The transformer who got blasted, actully BECAME Optimus Prime. That was his origin episode. They clearly didn't watch the entire episode.

Posted by Yep - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 2:09 PM

I’m a Christian and think the Transformers part was a tad bit over the top, but the part on Voltron was the truth! In the vid the guy even call her a witch. puttin’ that kinda crap into your system is bad for everyone let alone little kids.

Posted by gryphon - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 3:04 PM

OK. I'm a Christian. I love Transformers. I plan on seeing the movie this summer.
I disown those men. They scare me. I'm sorry, but when I watched Transformers The Movie and saw Optimus Prime and a bunch of other Transformers get slaughtered, my first thought was not that I should go out and kill someone. I think that seeing these robots (ROBOTS, not humans) die, if anything, just gave Transformers Generation 1 a bigger sense of realism. You wnated to connect with these characters, knowing that they could die in any episode. It's like Heroes. Unfortunately, those crappy anime spinoffs will never amount to Generation 1.
Ugh. Those two guys will be needing Jesus's help when the mech fans get through with them.

Posted by G4tdaddy - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 3:44 PM

last time I checked that our God made the stars not some stupid ass cartoon witch.Some one needs to find out who these crackheads are and beat the crap out of them.Why didn't these jackasses have clips of Tom and Jerry,the Road runner with Wiley Coyte and others.What ASSCLOWNS.

Posted by TruthSeiyer - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 4:24 PM

Posted by Yep - Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:09 PM
I’m a Christian and think the Transformers part was a tad bit over the top, but the part on Voltron was the truth! In the vid the guy even call her a witch. puttin’ that kinda crap into your system is bad for everyone let alone little kids.

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I have never understood this viewpoint... in what way does the bad guy consulting a witch poison the minds of the children. Even from a standpoint that witchcraft is evil power granted by satan, it's the bad guys using it.... what's the problem? are we worried our children might learn that a)Witchraft is evil and b)People who rely on magic always lose?
what's wrong with that?



oh and G4tdaddy, when they said stars they were talking about the rampant pentacles in voltron used in that show to symbolize the five lions which become one robot, not the stars in the night sky..

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:39 PM

i hate people that are like this yes voltron has a lot of wicca, which is a respectable religion by the way, overtones in it, the pentacle, the power of the elements, and of course witchcraft, but that dosent make it about the “devil”, but what do expect form close minded christians, which is also a respectable religion, i myself follow the lines of paradigm piracy hence my name

Also how the hell do robots have sex? im curios to see how that works lol

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:42 PM

I would rather a kid TRY to use witchcraft than a real gun anyhow, Ive seen people who have been into the black arts and voodo and all this other satanic crap claiming it works and they only thing I ever seen them do it make a fool out of themselves. there is good, there is evil, if a little kid wants to think hes a witch/warlock, let them go ahead, they'll grow out of it. how many mentally sane older people do you know that say" im a witch" everyone has a choice to follow God or not (hes a gentleman he wont force you) so if the dumb kids want to be a witch it isnt gonna be because of voltron

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:46 PM

man these guys obviously have way too much time on there hands, why are they watching this crap anyways, its not even airing anymore, they had to go dig up some old episodes just to make some lame point that has no validity as a christian or a robot (lol) well, these guys must be bored, being a christian man I never watched voltron (even as a kid) and thought, yeah a witch...thats what I wanna do, be a witch and serve some ugly evil guy against a crusade of kitty robos

Posted by lockepsb - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:48 PM

How was transformers sexually explicit? Dude these guys talking about cults behind the shows.... I bet these guys are mormons... they should take a hard look at the religion they belong to cause it could possibly be classified as a cult of it's own.

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:51 PM

oh...1984 duh on me. oh well still stupid. man look at those outfits. and i am glad to see the world didnt go mad. I still follow jesus and not optimus. and the world never resorted to wicca from voltron, that I know of. (now watch some retarded youtuber post something about how voltron turned them wiccan) the world is still alright and all these guys proved is that they have bad dress style and horrible chair patterns back then

Posted by lockepsb - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:58 PM

Btw this show had to have come out in 85-86 and not 84... I know this because the episode of transformers was from season 2, when the Aerialbots traveled back in time to learn how the Decepticons were truely evil.

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:58 PM

ok you people need to stop saying shit about witchcraft, by you people i mean those posting, you have no idea what your talking about, stop making it sound like witchcraft is stupid and beneath you, im not a witch i just hate close minded people

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 5:59 PM

i meant to say im not a wiccan

Posted by Zevious - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:00 PM

Seriously- this is current? WTF? TAlk about giving your religion a bad name. I don't see how the Transformers part they showed their could give anyone the idea that they should go out and start shooting folks. But I guess when you don't watch a lot of tv you might get the idea that it is cartoons that warp kids minds and nothing else- like say abusive parents or adults, drug use, poverty, mental health issues, etc. To quote Jown Wayne: "Life is tough. It's even tougher when your stupid."

Posted by shtkn521 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:02 PM

"...It looks like the setting of a really bad porno. "

lol, the host LOOKS like an actor from a really bad porno film

Posted by thenumber7 (BANNED) - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:09 PM

The video was so stupid, that I stopped the video only a few seconds after it started. It was idiotic and shouldn't even exist.

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:11 PM

oh...1984 duh on me. oh well still stupid. man look at those outfits. and i am glad to see the world didnt go mad. I still follow jesus and not optimus. and the world never resorted to wicca from voltron, that I know of. (now watch some retarded youtuber post something about how voltron turned them wiccan) the world is still alright and all these guys proved is that they have bad dress style and horrible chair patterns back then

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:17 PM

uh withcraft is stupid and beneath us paradigm. I mean jeesh everyone know witches are stupid, look what happened the old hag in wizzard of oz. and that witch is snow white got pwned too. and hocus pocus..umm..hello this just goes to further my point that all witchcraft is retared and has no ability to dominate anything, and dont even get me started on chronicles of narnia..gee paradigm Im not close-minded I just have my facts together. jeesh some people just cant have an intellegent conversation.

Posted by TheKei - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:19 PM

Did anybody else notice that these guys are very eerily similar to the great Voltron himself, Bill O'Reilly?

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:26 PM

NO LM1213 you obviously dont have your facts together, because if you did you wouldnt have mentioned a bunch of stupid made up characters when im talking about a serious religion, and to reflect on what i said earlier i hate close minded people and you fall into that category LM1213 regardless of what you say

Posted by CreamPieBaby - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:32 PM

that clip reminded me of how much i loved transformers. Those sweet sweet memories will be blasted to hell come july fourth when that disaster they call the transformers movie comes out this summer. Michael Bay? Tyrese Gibson? Shy lapoof? Bumble Bee is a mustang? seriously? I mean this movie's going to make Fantastic Four look like spider-man 2.

Posted by Alucard396 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:38 PM

I found it really funny how the violence in Transformers is simply the damage of the Orion Pax and Ariel who of course became Optimus Prime and Elita One, the commanders of the Autobots respectively.

Posted by Bigeddthemonk - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:56 PM

Hmm this look verry familliar.... Possibly the big thing about harry potter teaching children wizardry and wichcraft? First of which do these people really think that kids will realy see transformers shoot at each other and say "hey Jimmy lets go out side and kill people!" I think not. If anything this help kids learn that people are not all "good" and "nice".

Posted by gryphon - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 7:44 PM

I watched the video just for the Transformers clip. Man, I love that show! Those two guys just give Christianity a bad name. Christians are SUPPOSED to be open minded. That video just made me mad. It was so self-righteous and pompous.
Oh, and LM and paradigm: Nice job keeping things mature.

Posted by gryphon - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 7:58 PM

I watched the video just for the Transformers clip. Man, I love that show! Those two guys just give Christianity a bad name. Christians are SUPPOSED to be open minded. That video just made me mad. It was so self-righteous and pompous.
Oh, and LM and paradigm: Nice job keeping things mature.

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 7:58 PM

WOW you see that people the man defending the wicca religion, is flagged as immature and unintelligent by all the hypocrite christians, you say the people in this clip are close minded for the way they are acting, then you turn around and act the same way, also as i said before i have no problem with the christians in general just the stupid ones

Posted by gryphon - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 8:02 PM

paradigm, don't twist what I just said. I said nothing that personal. LM was acting all "holier-than-thou" and you weren't really helping. I said nothing about wicca. Take a chill pill.

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 8:10 PM

gryphon alright i know when i said immature it sounded like i was targeting you, i apologize i meant to target a few others manly LM

Posted by trowaduo - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 8:11 PM

This crap is nothing new. There are similar bits out there ripping pop music and lots of other modern culture like the Simpsons.

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 8:56 PM

lol. you're just mad cuz those women on charmed show exactly how weak whichcraft would be if it were real. look man stop getting bent. whitchcraft is fake and for you to defend it so strongly is stupid. I know plenty of people who try to practice that, and satanism, and all this other b.s. listen man no spell casted on me has ever done crap, the last person who tried to voodoo me I laughed at. shut up your just stupid now. I was just pulling your strings like the puppet you are

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:02 PM

and gryphon dont speak on me cuz you dont know crap. I wasnt acting hollier than though I was joking around most the time, for either of you to take the post so serious just shows how anal you both can be. and gryphon "Christians are SUPPOSED to be open minded" stupid. being a christian doesnt make your perfect or different. I think your views on christianity are way off key to what a christian really is. as far as being mature lighten up and get the stick out your asses. man Im a christian and I aint half as uptight as you two.

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:05 PM

the only REAL witch was samantha from bewitched, she was the real deal. all other witches are pwned by her. oh wait..sabrina is up on the craft toO!

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:07 PM

the only REAL witch was samantha from bewitched, she was the real deal. all other witches are pwned by her. oh wait..sabrina is up on the craft toO!

Posted by icko - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:16 PM

transformers god's gift
god made man, man made transformers

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:19 PM

i have a question why is it every time i go online and start talking shit every one takes me seriously, for the record when im online acting stupid im bored with nothing to due but get a rise out of people, if you’ve seen me post before would know im just messin around, shit man i must be very convincing frankly i dont give a shit what you say about witchcraft, wicca, or christianity as long as its all in good fun

Posted by LM1213 - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:29 PM

uh huh. I think you just realized I was pulling your strings and now your trying to retract now, it's all good though. go sabrina and sam, down with the charm girls.

Posted by paradigm_pirate - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:35 PM

alright alright you caught me, but when it all started i really was just messin around, but i will admit you had me going, happy

Posted by Naruto_Style - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 4:24 AM

silly people. voltron isnt the devil, FOOSBALL IS THE DEVIL!!!!! NO MAMA!!!!!

Posted by Yep - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 8:13 AM

For all the Christians that have posted, the Bible clearly says we’re to have no part in witchcraft…. at all! that means cartoons, games, movies, T.V. shows etc. Deuteronomy 18:9-14 sums up Gods thoughts on that subject.

http://www.biblegateway.com/ passage/?book_id=5&chapter=18& version=31

Posted by gryphon - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 9:58 AM

Um... Yep,By watching it you aren't taking part of it. Besides, it's presented as a bad thing more than a good thing in Voltron. If you keep avoiding anything that remotely resembles witchcraft you won't have much of a life. If you don't take part in it (and I doubt Voltron is much of a recruiting tool) I don't see what the problem is.

Posted by Asrugan - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 11:10 AM

Sexually oriented robots?! WTF?!

Posted by S14DGENER8 - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 12:41 PM

lmfao this si ridiculous

Posted by SonicNiGHT - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 11:00 PM

All religions suck, The end. If you take your religion seriously, you'd know that it's about life lessons, and being a good person, not about sacrificing yourself to some greater retarded cause like these asstards are doing. I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that these people are terrorists of free speech, lol (Btw, I think George Bush is a retard, don't even bother going after me on the terrorist issue) Anyone who doesn't agree with me should be shot with a chainsaw-launching machinegun, and then beaten with dildos until they understand the concept of science. THEN I'll let you believe whatever the hell you want.


Just for the record, I think THESE 2 assclowns actually decended from monkeys. To hell with jesus's blood, they need a damn banana.

Posted by yoda321 - Thursday, June 7, 2007 1:51 PM

i know im at the bottome but they are real morons if you watch the guy with curly hair it looks like he has horns produding out of his head.
THEY ARE THE DEVIL I SAY!! LORD HAVE MERCY ON THEIR SOULS. LOL

Posted by TheBorgInva - Friday, June 8, 2007 10:46 AM

I am Christian. These guys were nuts. I do not see how Voltron's EVIL witch made people want to do witchcraft. I do not see how Transformers are sexual. Why did they not attack GI Joe? Hmmm, people fighting people. Care Bears? Hey, they have magic powers. Are they not more considered to be false idols? For the love of God, I hope these guys did not mess up their own children.

TF and Vol are 2 of my favorite 80s cartoons when I was growing up, and will still watch them today. Again, I am Christian but they took it way too far! I go by the Bible myself and they were too far gone with this. Of all the crap that went on in the world at that time, they picked on those 2 cartoons?

Pure nuts!

Posted by Turthan_Natner - Monday, June 11, 2007 11:18 AM

im a christian and really i choose to not imply my religion towards anything i watch or play (i'd draw the line at satan killing hundreds of newborn kittens with pentagram shirukens, but whod be crazy enough to make something like that with douchebags like this walking around?) and actually it sort of has made me more open.
all i have to say is, what the hell is that guy wearing? the 80s really scare me sometimes...

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