Winning Souls In World Of Warcraft

Steve Rock writes "Many of us have heard about the various ways in which real life and massively-multiplayer role playing games intersect, which usually involves the exchange of in-game characters or items for real life money. Well apparently religion is spilling over into World of Warcraft." From the article: "We meet under the docks in Booty Bay for a bible study every Tuesday night."

Comments

I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right?

[bartkusa]

...I mean, it is, isn't it?

Please?

Congratulations

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations, you've managed to post a troll site on Slashdot.

If you look at the content on this site, it's either obviously fake or belongs to a cult, none of what they have posted is even remotely close to any church I've ever been to.

I suggest deleting this story and forgetting someone ever submitted it.

Re:Congratulations

[Attaturk]

I suggest deleting this story and forgetting someone ever submitted it.

That's funny. Whenever I accuse the church of adopting that strategy I get in trouble. ;-)

Re:Also from the article

[Jorkapp]

They left out the fact that those gay boys and fat little pale-faced wiccan girls have credit cards (or at least a job to buy prepaid cards).

I highly doubt those described characters would want to piss away $20/mo (or whatever it is) to escape their pathetic lives in a video game. More than likely, they would escape their lives in something like Counter-Strike Source for a one-time cost, or simply use Alcohol (if they're of age), or just spend the $400 on a gun.

as stated already

[ptrangerv8]

why was this even posted?

normally I don't bitch about the stories posted on /. but c'mon - this is a well known satirical site....

I almost bought it untill I saw the link..

Re:Satire or not...

[Ayaress]

It's a joke on a particular facet of the Christian community. Your in the same boat I am on it: There are so many people who actually act like that that it's not immediately clear wether or not it's a joke.

Re:Hilarious

[dougmc]

Hydrogen Monoxide has killed over 100,000 people THIS YEAR ALONE.

Hydrogen monoxide? You mean dihydrogen monoxide, also known as hydrogen hydroxide?

I believe the death toll you're referring to is over 200,000 people now, but it can't be purely blamed on DHMO -- large amounts of monosodium chloride was also found on the deceased, for example.

Also, when you say `this year alone', you should be more specific. You mean in the `previous 365 days', right? Not `2005 so far' ...

the best part of this

[Anonymous Coward]

the best part of this is how all the /. christians take this opportunity to tell us how un-funny all this is. hits a little close to home eh?

my advice - try to take yourself a little less seriously folks. just because somebody is picking on your choice of imaginary friends is no reason to ignite a flamewar here on slashdot.

oh wait, yeah it is. flame on, children of jesus! your gullibility shall know no end!

Re:the best part of this

[Anonymous Coward]

To be clear, the author of landoverbaptist is active in atheist communities, performs as a humour bit at atheist conventions, and intends his website to promote the ridicule of Christianity.

Whether satire should be considered socially acceptable depends in large part on the intention of its creators.

If an anti-semite were to create satire portraying jews as being greedy and having distinctive facial features, we would not consider this acceptable.

I would venture to say that under no circumstances should we consider satire portraying stereotypes of jews as acceptable, but clearly it is far worse for an anti-semite to do this than it is for South Park to do it for sheer absurdity.

The author if the linked site is actively anti-Christian, is active in anti-Christian circles, and intends his satire to be mean-spirited.

I think you need to take yourself, and your fellow human beings, MORE seriously.

Re:the best part of this

[Anonymous Coward]

Whereas it's obviously socially acceptable for Christians to condemn non-believers to an eternity of pain and suffering in the sulphur filled pits of hell.

Re:Landover Baptist is a joke, but not ToJ...

[theantix]

That's delicious! A *Christian* arguing that *another religious group* has no evidence to support their outrageous claims and that the text is self-contradictory. Pot, meet kettle... kettle, say hello to my good friend pot. And while we're at it... someone call Alanis Morisette, because it sounds to that it's like rain on your wedding day, don't you think?

Article should be removed...

[Nogeel]

Mods This article really should be removed. If it were anything other than an attack on religMods, This article really should be removed. If it were anything other than an attack on religion I'd keep my mouth shut, but it is a fake story on an anti-Christian site. Not news which as the slogan says news for nerds.

What annoys me more is just how easily people like to pin this type of ignorance on Christians. Do some people really act like this? Unfortunately yes. Does this mean all do. Goodness no. This is just another use of stereotypes, but is just accepted cause it is the in thing to do. This is like my experience of being an American in England. It is just acceptable to make fun of America and Americans.

Flame me on any of the statements above you want. Sure there are plenty that will want to target me for them. And yes I am a Christian.

I'll get modded down for this...

[Wyatt Earp]

But, this is exactly why I won't pay for /. Crap editing, dups and crap submissions. This is /. not Fark. If we are going this far with /, where are the Boobies links?

Very Un-Christian Behaviour

[queenb**ch]

If you don't agree to accept their religion, they use their character to kill yours. Hmmm...that seems to violate both the old and new testament. Old Testament - Thou shalt not kill.
New Testament - Love thy neighbor as thy self.

They protest about being stereo typed but they offer up a pretty grim stereo type of gamers that isn't even accurate. Stastically speaking, the average gamer is 23 year old male with a life who likes to game to blow off steam.

I personally like to game. I scuba, rollerblade, and ride horses when I'm not gaming, so I'd say that the no sports thing is probably a wash too.

Then they actually brag about following people around to annoy them in to converting or staging "conversion duels". Frankly, if they are free to express their religion, I'm free to express mine.

BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME NOW, PUNY MORTAL!!!!

Re:It's funny because...

[goatan]

Landover Baptist has to be the most prominent religious parody on the Internet and yet people still believe it's real...

Probably because it's still not much of an exageration.