{"id":4510,"date":"2012-10-12T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:14:51","slug":"zombies-in-childrens-play-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/zombies-in-childrens-play-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Zombies\u2019 in children’s play centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three Images from the ‘Rise of the Zombies’ website – there are many we cannot show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An event encouraging young people to take an interest in zombies and the occult is to take in Lincolnshire \u2013 at a children’s play centre.<\/p>\n

A group calling itself \u2018Rise of the Zombies\u2019 is holding an event based on \u2018zombie\u2019 role-playing at \u2018Fun Farm\u2019 in North Hykeham near Lincoln on Saturday 27th October. The group\u2019s website http:\/\/www.riseofthezombies.co.uk\/<\/a> declares ‘this area contains flesh-eating zombies’ and promotes the experience as an \u2018adrenaline-packed, blood-soaked, zombie survival gorefest\u2019.<\/p>\n

It goes on to describe a zombie as ‘a re-animated organism by means of infection [chemical mutation, et al]; stripped of normality and mental balance, leaving only primal instincts of survival and violent behaviour; and reproducing by means of feeding off flesh’.<\/p>\n

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It then tells people they will go through a \u2018scare-maze with live actors.. with many missions and objectives to make it as close as possible to a zombie pandemic\u2019. ‘This experience involves live action horror, blood and gore,’ it boasts.<\/p>\n

Youth workers are alarmed by the growing interest by young people today in the occult, the \u2018undead\u2019 and related imagery. From music and films to computer games, it seems that you don\u2019t have to walk very far into any entertainment store to find digital media using occult imagery to draw people in. It mirrors the rise in websites discussing and promoting suicide and the inevitable tragedies of young people being drawn into a destructive world-view which can leave them mentally scarred \u2013 or dead.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today: ‘This zombie-themed event may appear on the surface to be an occult version of paint-ball, but its emphasis on a class of sub-humanity and on blood-letting makes it unacceptable to be held at all, let alone in a place where children are normally present.<\/p>\n

‘The website for \u201cFun Farm\u201d where the event is being held clearly states that the venue is a \u201cfamily entertainment centre\u201d with a maximum age limit of 12 years old. In contrast, the photo gallery for Rise of the Zombies has images of people smeared and dripping with what appears to be blood, others of people seeming to eat human flesh and yet other images with sexual overtones. It is incomprehensible that a civilised society would think that is entertainment.<\/p>\n

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How it should be – promotional image from Fun Farm in Lincoln<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘What kind of message does it send to young children who may hear of this event or see something of what is happening and what effect might this have on them?<\/p>\n

‘How many parents want to take their child to a venue which the night before has been promoting \u201cviolent behaviour\u201d which is \u201dstripped of normality and mental balance\u201d? And for that matter, what kind of people could even consider renting out their premises to a\u00a0group like \u201cRise of the Zombies\u201d?<\/p>\n

‘It says a lot for the state of our nation when in stark contrast to the scriptures people find entertainment in imagery and themes deeply based in the occult.\u00a0 Philippians 4:8 says, \u201cFinally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘We have our values upside-down if we think that making money out of young people play-acting at zombies and dripping with blood has any good in it whatsoever.’<\/p>\n

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An event encouraging young people to take an interest in zombies and the occult is to take in Lincolnshire \u2013 at a children’s play centre. A group calling itself \u2018Rise of the Zombies\u2019 is holding an event based on \u2018zombie\u2019 role-playing at \u2018Fun Farm\u2019 in North Hykeham near Lincoln on Saturday 27th October. The group\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1035],"tags":[569,570,568,567],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-children","tag-fun-farm","tag-fun-farm-lincoln","tag-rise-of-the-zombies","tag-zombies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Stephen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/author\/stephen\/"},"rttpg_comment":29,"rttpg_category":"Education & Children<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"An event encouraging young people to take an interest in zombies and the occult is to take in Lincolnshire \u2013 at a children’s play centre. A group calling itself \u2018Rise of the Zombies\u2019 is holding an event based on \u2018zombie\u2019 role-playing at \u2018Fun Farm\u2019 in North Hykeham near Lincoln on Saturday 27th October. The group\u2019s…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}