@PeterTurner Well, if you're going to just make stuff up ....
And, @Peter, while you're here.
The Church is proud that it no longer tortures people for blasphemy or imprisons then for heresy? The response from rationalists was, “Yeah, but only because the law won’t permit you.”
Do you seriously think the Natural Law is just made up? I mean, I may make up stuff and call it the Natural Law, but that's just lame lay-philosophizing. It's obviously made up
@Chacha102 hey, what do you think about the Natural Law?
How about murder and marriage. Is the purpose of murder to kill a person? Is the purpose of marriage to have a loving relationship the produces babies? Or are these things merely civil constructs?
@Chacha102 I think that things can still be mutable and still come in to being post-creation and be understood under the the Natural Law.
@Chacha102 No, I'm never philosophical, philosophers don't like the Natural Law, so you can't call it philosophy any more. Apparently it's just religion now. Some sort of subset of Catholicism.
@waxeagle That's funny, but I wasn't aware the Church opposed role playing, just imaginary quests involving things it would oppose if they happened in real life. I remember some dude last year was "outed" as a scandalous game master who wrote for The Vortex and there was some lame controversy.
@PeterTurner Not sure that they do honestly, I know a lot of conservative groups view the hobby poorly thanks to a couple of rather inflammatory and factually in correct pieces of writing from the 80s. Most D&D campaigns aren't much worse than your average LotR/Narnia book
I've heard many stories of people who abandoned their role-playing hobby, or burned their fantasy book collections, on the grounds that these were opposed to their Christian faith.
What is it that causes some Christians to be concerned about fantasy and role-playing? What are the sources** for t...
@TRiG I need to actually do some research and give a better answer...none of them address that this is primarily a cultural concern not a religious one. And mostly one born out of fear mongering of ignorants /rant
One thing to remember is that a large part of any religion is cultural. And some of that is a response to outside culture. For example, no one reasonably could read the Bible and say that "God hates gay people" is the fundamental message of the text. Plenty of people have found that message in th...
Should we allow humourous questions on this site, like, "What is the most cringey Christian t-shirt you've ever seen?" or "Worst sermon illustration ever?"
Note to new people to meta: vote this question up if you agree, down if you don't. And if you have a great reason for doing either you'd lik...
Could be a fun thing to do here. I don't think I've ever seen a bad Christian T-shirt (or any Christian T-shirt), but I'm sure some of ye Americans have.
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@TRiG yeah, and I see no problem with participating in commerce surrounding it, I just think we've managed to (at times, and in places) actually get things backwards, and the commercialness of it facilitates that
@TRiG The only consumeristic crisis of faith I ever had was when I realized the Left Behind books were primarily money machines. Fortunately, it was then I realized I'm Catholic and not supposed to believe that anyway. Still, it's not like there's any shortage of Catholic paraphernalia to be had at the shrines of the world.
this is pretty accurate but the board games, the kids books, the plush beanies are what I'm talking about... I don't mind the literature, you could tell from reading the books that they really wanted to finish the story but couldn't do it in less than 12 books.
@TRiG By, I don't mind the literature, I mean I was fully aware it was crappy. It was like a crappy blank canvas on which an outline of how to be a Christian in an incredibly hostile world was painted. If it were up to me, I'd have used a better canvas.
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