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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."
The author of the linked site is an atheist, and is scheduled to speak as a humour segment at atheist gatherings.
The objective of his "speeches" is to ridicule right-Christians. The objective of his website is to troll right-Christians and to create a strawman for non right-Christians.
The objective is to incite hatred and ridicule of Christianity by trolling to invoke an emotional response against Christianity. This is an effective strategy, because even though the reader later discovers the article to be a farse, he or she nonetheless has genuinely felt hatred and disgust toward what he or she takes to legitimately be right-Christianity.
Was this an accident, or should we now assume that Slashdot takes an editorial stance of permitting the open ridicule and trolling of Christianity?
This is never acceptable, and if an apology is not issued, I will not extend my subscription.