Why I wasn't allowed to talk about Pokemon at church.

As a child, my one of my favorite shows/video games was Pokemon. I still love the franchise today, and if I had a newer handheld, I would definitely check out the new games. But when I was little, I wasn't allowed to talk about Pokemon much at church or at my Christian school. My parents told me that a lot of people thought that Pokemon was evil.
I bet a lot of people have heard about this thought from some part of the Christian community, especially online. But just about all of the Christians in my area legitimately believed that Pokemon was demonic, or at the very least, not a godly thing to let your children be a part of. It promotes "evolution," "violence," and demonizes creatures that God created in real life and transforms them into something horrible. (Not to mention that it's foreign, which for some people I think was definitely a factor.)

Great, you pissed him off.

Regardless, I found kids to play Pokemon with at my school or in my neighborhood. I just couldn't tell people in my church that I did.

Thinking back on it now, in light of both children's media and video games, I think that there would be a much better alternative to just damning the franchise outright. 
What if those members of my church took the time to really investigate Pokemon, why children liked it, and what its implications are? What if they took the opportunity to expand our interest from imaginary creatures to real ones that God created? Not in a manipulative way, but in a way that keeps us grounded   in reality and doesn't make Christians out to be ignorant haters.
Does that make sense? Anyone else experience this?