Sinners in the hands of an angry God, unite! A recent outcry against anime in religious circles has prompted Christians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims alike to rally together and develop a one page pamphlet perfect for door to door distribution on the...

10: There's too much sex in anime. All that sex can't help but titillate and create lust in good (state your religion) souls. Sex should only take place after marriage, and then only in pitch black rooms using the proper God-fearing missionary position.

9: Excessive pride runs rampant in anime, from Captain Harlock's peacock-like stance to Spike Spiegel's cocky self-assurance. However the real offenders are the show-offs that call themselves animators whose own pride is manifest in these etchings of sin. Pride must be beaten out of the animators - behold the tar and feathers!

8: Anime is full of greedy little bastards, especially Dark Schneider. Trust us. We don't have to have seen anime to know the type ... but we did anyway.

7: Right after our esteemed scientists proved that there is no such thing as evolution - horrors among horrors - it was scientifically discovered that there is a direct correlation between anime and sloth. When someone starts to watch anime they immediately spend all their time holed up in dark rooms, ignoring the backbreaking labor that proves their adoration and respect for the Holy Spirit.

6: Sloth leads to gluttony. Without exercise people get fat - especially if they eat the junk food so popular among anime fans.

5: Anime also creates a great deal of envy between viewers. They covet each other's rare editions of "City Hunter" and "Maison Ikkoku," and sometimes resort to stealing - and stealing leads to the use of drugs and alcohol. Next thing you know there will be an over-population of anime fans in prison...perhaps there already are.

4: The violence in anime is staggering and can only instigate more violence and anger in the fans. Mark our words, if this anime craze isn't stopped soon then mobs of belligerent citizens will take to the streets, slaughtering one another with special mechanized robot suits in desperate acts to imitate their "heroes."

3: Only harlots paint their faces. The female anime characters shamelessly use make-up. Therefore, female anime characters are all whores. And so are those strumpets who imitate them at cons.

2: Anime drives fans to imbibe soda … filled with caffeine. And caffeine is the Devil's work.

1: The amount of bare skin depicted in anime is scandalous. We are not supposed to know that other people have bodies, and we are definitely not supposed to know every shape and curve of the human body. Perhaps if the animators started dressing everybody in tent-like clothing, leaving only two slots open for eyes, we could start to see a redeeming factor in anime. As it stands, anime is sinful and only something that sinners could watch.

Martian Successor Nadesico © XEBEC / Project NADESICO / TV Tokyo / AD Vision.