You Heretics! Satan will come and punish you!Josh Diaz said:ive been playing d and d for 12 years and not once have i ever wanted to do any of the afformentioned
Because if you actually know something about Christianity, you know it's not convincing in the slightest. Real fundamentalist sites are different in tone from this, the site that was linked drips with sarcasm. Also, there's content is about as far off as possible -- no Christian would actually use the term "God's hit list," no matter how insane they were. The adopt a liberal thing is wrong -- the site conflates republicans with Christians, which tells me they're exaggerating elements of the religious right, not actually members of it. Any actual religious site would keep the two seperate -- Churches don't endorse candidates, and in a situation where a preacher would otherwise do it, they can't, because they would lose their tax exempt status.Warforger said:How do you know? Seems pretty convincing. Let's email them to make sure.....silver wolf009 said:OT: Site is troll. Nothing more, alot less.
Owyn_Merrilin said:Because if you actually know something about Christianity, you know it's not convincing in the slightest. Real fundamentalist sites are different in tone from this, the site that was linked drips with sarcasm. Also, there's content is about as far off as possible -- no Christian would actually use the term "God's hit list," no matter how insane they were. The adopt a liberal thing is wrong -- the site conflates republicans with Christians, which tells me they're exaggerating elements of the religious right, not actually members of it.
Thats if the site was a church.Owyn_Merrilin said:Any actual religious site would keep the two seperate -- Churches don't endorse candidates, and in a situation where a preacher would otherwise do it, they can't, because they would lose their tax exempt status.
......What? How is this bashing Christianity at all? I don't see anyone in this thread saying "Oh look what Christianity did". I swear I just said "Christian" and all of a sudden people thought I was making fun of Christians.Owyn_Merrilin said:I am really sick of angry atheists on these forums finding anti-fundamentalist parody sites, claiming they're real, and having a Christianity bashing party even after numerous people have pointed out that the site in question is a fake. It seems like a new one, or an old one that a new member has found, pops up about once every two weeks. And every time, we get a thread like this.
And even from a fundamentalist perspective, the examples I listed are not the way they think -- or at least not the way they would go about saying it. It's parody, exaggerating some elements of fundamentalism, and getting others completely wrong because it's funnier that way, plain and simple.Warforger said:Owyn_Merrilin said:Because if you actually know something about Christianity, you know it's not convincing in the slightest. Real fundamentalist sites are different in tone from this, the site that was linked drips with sarcasm. Also, there's content is about as far off as possible -- no Christian would actually use the term "God's hit list," no matter how insane they were. The adopt a liberal thing is wrong -- the site conflates republicans with Christians, which tells me they're exaggerating elements of the religious right, not actually members of it.
That doesn't apply since Christianity is interpreted differently by different people.
Fair enough, but you still don't generally find the two mixed in quite that manner. Fundamentalists might publically endorse a candidate or a platform, but the specific kind of mudslinging on the site is an exaggeration of the unstated bias you tend to see on these sites.Warforger said:Thats if the site was a church.Owyn_Merrilin said:Any actual religious site would keep the two seperate -- Churches don't endorse candidates, and in a situation where a preacher would otherwise do it, they can't, because they would lose their tax exempt status.
That one wasn't aimed specifically at you, it's something that's been going on since before I joined the site -- someone finds a parody site, like this one or the Christian gamer parody thing, they post a link to it on off-topic, and then you get a multi page thread where the people who actually get that it's a parody are ignored, while a significant subsection of the atheists on this forum use it as an excuse to go "oh, look at the crazy Christians." I'm really getting sick of it.Warforger said:......What? How is this bashing Christianity at all? I don't see anyone in this thread saying "Oh look what Christianity did". I swear I just said "Christian" and all of a sudden people thought I was making fun of Christians.Owyn_Merrilin said:I am really sick of angry atheists on these forums finding anti-fundamentalist parody sites, claiming they're real, and having a Christianity bashing party even after numerous people have pointed out that the site in question is a fake. It seems like a new one, or an old one that a new member has found, pops up about once every two weeks. And every time, we get a thread like this.
Oh sooo close. Its Mazes and Mosters! But since you had a go hereOwlly said:MAZES AND DRAGONS gief me cookieQuantum Roberts said:I guess they weren't Tom Hanks fans.
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For the most part I ignore these nutjobs...though it is a little disturbing when I find one of my World Of Darkness game books with a small entry saying that it ISN'T satanism or advocates the dark arts. Thats just a little sad.
also...yeah, this is, seriously misguided as well, as extrememly over the top...and i guess theres a smidgen of crazy thrown in there for good measure, and all the mixed leaves you with a very unappetising mixture i wish i could ignore easily