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| OYashiroForever 467th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):A rather personal rant..."
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It's been mostly my experience that when the media and gaming companies lash back at deluded parent groups and Christian nutjobs, they tend to leave Christianity alone. Most enlightened folks know that Christianity doesn't cause fanaticism... stupidity causes fanaticism.
If you're referring to the reactions of individuals on forums, you shouldn't really get bent out of shape. A significant percentage of forum-people (this place excluded) are late teens, early 20s folk who have just taken their first philosophy or religious studies course and think they've evolved past the primitive concept of faith... and they're INCREDIBLY eager to tell you how foolish you are for believing what you believe. Some live in this self-centered haze for the rest of their lives, others return to whatever faith they belonged to after a life-altering event, and some folks (like myself) simply learn to respect the viewpoints of others. One can understand the value of faith without actually having any.
Then again, I almost wish I was Christian just so I could be there when Jerry Falwell realizes that spending your life hating your fellow man and condemning those who don't give you money to eternal damnation is not the quickest route to heaven.
Anywho... stiff upper lip and all that. Being Christian isn't always easy, but if you stick with it and live a truly Christ-like life (ignoring all the extraneous dogmatic BS and simply being charitable, merciful, humble, etc.), I hear the rewards are pretty posh.
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| ZamIAm 1029th Post
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| "Peace+Work never safe..." , posted Wed 3 Sep 08:54
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If you're referring to the reactions of individuals on forums, you shouldn't really get bent out of shape. A significant percentage of forum-people (this place excluded) are late teens, early 20s folk who have just taken their first philosophy or religious studies course and think they've evolved past the primitive concept of faith... and they're INCREDIBLY eager to tell you how foolish you are for believing what you believe. Some live in this self-centered haze for the rest of their lives, others return to whatever faith they belonged to after a life-altering event, and some folks (like myself) simply learn to respect the viewpoints of others. One can understand the value of faith without actually having any.
Anywho... stiff upper lip and all that. Being Christian isn't always easy, but if you stick with it and live a truly Christ-like life (ignoring all the extraneous dogmatic BS and simply being charitable, merciful, humble, etc.), I hear the rewards are pretty posh.
I normally don't rant or get emotional so I just sort of had to let it out. Feels better (especially since a few other personal issues have been resolved). Intriguingly enough, only a few of my ideas are heavy in Christian theme. Most are only in passing when/if it is mentioned. And keeping to "accuracy", one heroine I have who is arabic is specifically NOT Christian.
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| Dr Baghead 2503th Post
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| "Re(1):A rather personal rant..." , posted Wed 3 Sep 12:32
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Something has been bugging me as of late. Numerous times video games and comics get blasted by various Christian people as being tasteless and harmful. Almost by default it seems like the reasoning is without a solid arguement but attracts the attention of political candidates, the media, and the extreme conservatives. The videogame (and comic) community lashes out from this. Rightfully so. I don't agree with the things they say with no backing. My problem stems from alot of the rebuttal to alot of the things that Christians say seems to be more aimed at Christianity itself rather than what these asinine people say. And that rebuttal is rather harsh. With my being a Christian and trying to position myself into both videogame and comic book job fields, it has sort of been irking me of late as I get more involved with various discussions on content and ratings. What I once ignored is slowly becoming scarring. I've even heard some of the more hateful comments on this forum on more than one occasion...
I don't know people's stance/reaction to this. In all honesty, I'm probably just going to delete this to avoid a flame war...
I've never seen any major source attack all Christanity, normally it's just jerks on message boards or silly web-pages...
But it seems to me in such cases both sides are swinging their chainsaws at the dead branches and cutting down the whole tree. (like that? I just made it up!)
The Religious groups see one game meant for mature adults like Vice City they'll spin out of control and say ALL games meant for CHILDREN are like Vice City. and even though they're meant for older readers Spawn has cool (circa 1993) Devil powers and cuss and Witchblade runs around almost naked allow the same group of people to claim all comics are perverting the minds of small children.
Their broad generalizations lead to the attacked groups making the same sort of generalizations... it's not "Billy Graham's small group of wackos" who are crazy because Alpha Flight has a gay team member or because Sub-Zero can rip out heads and awesomely keep the spin attached, it becomes ALL of Christanity who is this crazy.
Unfortunately it's never going to stop either. It creates a bigger media circus to claim all games are like GTA (speaking of which... I love news footage of that game, the person playing has no clue what they're doing and it's cut to make the game seem as horrific as possible... FOXNews had a loop of the player wandering aimlessly and then beating an old woman and cut to them randomly gunning down people) and uninformed message board jerks bash anything they don't understand aimlessly and stupidly...
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Speaking of Comics and Religon, has there been a Superman comic that really plays up his link to being a Christ like Figure? (he's our savior from the heavens, he died only to comeback again, he represents the purist good of all humanity, etc.)
If not: SOMEDAY I WILL PITCH A COMIC TO DC PLAYING UP SUPERMAN AS A CHRIST LIKE BEING.
(see, everytime I get an idea for an interesting Elseworld DC releases it like a month later... when I thought "A Samurai Superman would be awesome!", Shogun of Steel came out. when I thought "What if Superman landed in Cold War era Russia? Now THAT would be interesting!" BAM! Red Son comes out. I thought "I think DC needs a Mangaverse too!" and like clockwork here comes the US release of "Batman:Child of Dreams"... so now we play the waiting game, "Superman:the son of God" or whatever should be annouced soon.)
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| OYashiroForever 468th Post
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| "Re(4):A rather personal rant..." , posted Wed 3 Sep 14:28
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This is the nature of a P.C. society.
<rant on>
More like the nature of hypocrisy. Political correctness, at its absolute base, is a nice idea: people of all races, creeds, and cultures live together peacefully by not judging each other based on differences. What the phrase has come to be associated with is petty lawsuits over workplace behavior, the changing of words like "stewardess" to words like "flight attendant", and the general vanillifying of American culture. Political correctness is only a term... the truth is far more horrifying.
My advice: learn how to TAKE A FUCKING JOKE, AMERICA! In the home I grew up in, everybody picked on everybody else; not out of spite or malice, but out of fun. It's that kind of good-natured ribbing that gives you a quick wit, teaches you not to take yourself too seriously, and most importantly, gives you the ability to take a joke. It's one thing to be sensitive to the needs and problems of others... however, I feel it's a true tragedy when people lose the ability to differentiate between a well-intended joke and a hateful slur. <rant off>
I seem to have been doing a lot of this of late... I think I need to retire the soapbox for a lil' while and get back to playing Disgaea and Bombastic.
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