Me personally, I could care less what the froot loops do in the public eye. Then again, I vote liberal and claim some sort of moderate oxymoronic "conservative liberal" leanings, which is just about an impossibility in this polarized age. So maybe I'm the exception here.
Playing that game violates a different personal code of ethics for me though: NEVER ever play a licensed video game, no matter what they BLOW. I learned this from endless hours of playing "Ren and Stimpy" and "Krusty's Fun House" as a kid.
Thats what I don't get, and I don't mean to sound like I'm criticizing you personally because I think your opinion reflects the vast majority of "religious" people in this world - be they Christians wincing at Jerry Fallwell or Muslims cringing at bin Laden
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Well to split hairs here, the Rapture is kinda a perversion in and of itself. It's never directly mentioned in the Bible, only a few lines about "two in the field and one is left" or something vague. All this Rapture- Mania comes from those craptastic "Left Behind" books, which are as far removed from canon as Captain Kirk is from Han Solo. (Neither mentioned out and out is the idea of the Trinity, but the idea of a Triune God is fairly necessary for Christianity to work... but that's another topic altogether
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Kill or convert brings a smile to my face. I'm starting to think there is no thing as your rational, coherent Christian. Anyone who believes these magical stories has already forsaken rationality. Anyone coherent can see the core value of Christianity is intolerance. Believing 2/3 of world is wrong and going to hell is intolerant. Just because you're not going to the Klan meeting doesn't change the fact that your core belief system does not accept other people. They claim to be tolerant and open-minded, but no wonder they don't outcry against the evil shit. Besides, they know they've been doing their own evil shit in the privacy of their home. (But isn't it nice to know we can pray to regain our points in the game
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I think we're reaching an interesting point in the history of Christianity where a whole lot of believers are struggling to reconcile the fact that science and human progress have rendered large portions of their doctrine certifiably false. The Creation, for instance - you cannot rationally believe in Adam and Eve without basically saying "I don't believe in science." In 2006, thats even for most Christians to say. So how do they reconcile the fact that their creation story is not true? Can they just strike it? Can they recast it as an "allegory" not meant to be taken literally? If so, what does that mean for the portions of the Bible they want everyone to live by VERY literally (i.e. - Deuternomomy and Revelations). How can they hold onto this religion while the tide of expanding knowledge is slowly tearing it away piece by piece from their hands? At what point does a Christian look at whats left and say "This just doesn't seem likely anymore"? Do they EVER get to that point? Thats what scares me - a whole lot of people who
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Playing that game violates a different personal code of ethics for me though: NEVER ever play a licensed video game, no matter what they BLOW. I learned this from endless hours of playing "Ren and Stimpy" and "Krusty's Fun House" as a kid.
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Abyss blahblah looking in blahblarghblah monster blahblarghblargh self.
"I HATE ALL OF YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE SO INTOLLLEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT."
Justify the paradox.
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