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."

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[McKinney83]

"I doubt any of them play sports so you can pretty much guess that there are lots of gay boys and fat little pale-faced Wiccan girls on the servers who hate themselves and escape into virtual characters so they don't have to deal with their pathetic lives."

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[Ayaress]

I'm not sure if the Baptists in Saginaw are a breed apart or not, but that sort of speech isn't that unusual at all. The only way I can distinguish this site from any of the pamphlets that gets stuffed in my door jam every Sunday morning is the free PS2 giveaway in the sidebar and the WWJD thongs.

Re:If you're offended as a xtian??

[slaker]

Do you understand the difference between parody and hatred?

Do you understand that everything under landoverbaptist is a very subtle dig at some attitudes in desperate need of exactly the treatment given there?

The very fact that some humorless evangelical can't tell the difference between Landoverbaptist and the real, scary kind of evangelical rhetoric suggests to me that perhaps some of that scary rhetoric needs to change.

Re:If you're offended as a xtian??

[LWATCDR]

" Do you understand the difference between parody and hatred?"

Yes I do. But this article was not presented on Slashdot as a parody. Do you not understand the difference between parody and hatred? One is intent. If someone put up a parody showing all Muslims as terrorists would you call it a parody? Sure the south park guys got away with it but they did it using puppets. This really looked like a news article and the way it was linked was linked in Slashdot was misleading. If you think otherwise take a look at the comments.

As too some real scary kind of evangelical rhetoric needing to change. Of course there is! There is all sorts of real scary rhetoric of all kinds that need to be changed but labeling all Christians with it is as wrong as saying all follower of Islam are terrorists, all Jews hate all Arabs, all blacks hate all whites, all whites hate all blacks.
It is just wrong and hateful. Every bit as bad as some of the "Christan" sites that you may take offense too.

Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right?

[Schemat1c]

Ive heard that there are some americans who take religion very seriously but surely that couldnt be this bad!

In my early 20's I got a case of what a friend of mine likes to call AOC(Adult Onset Christianity). And speaking as a former victim of this horrible mind virus I can say that they can very well be this bad and much, much worse.