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Winning Souls In World Of Warcraft

Posted by Zonk on from the have-faith-in-the-Light dept.

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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  1. Funny, but... by tyoob · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everything on landoverbaptist.org is crap, of course. I'd hate to think anyone's going to take this seriously.

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    This sig was blatantly stolen from someone else.
  2. I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? by bartkusa · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...I mean, it is, isn't it?

    Please?

    1. Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? by Ayaress · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, it is. The other day, when the Tsunami fish story got up, I submitted this exact same story just to see if it would go through (although I included the site's "free PS2" giveaway page as a sort of tip-off that it was fake for the industrious reader). I was actually relieved an hour later when I saw the "Rejected" tag on the submission. I guess I shouldn't have been quite so relieved, since they only rejected me because somebody else had already submitted the story.

      Just look around the site, and it'll eventually become very clear the site is satire. Though, I should point out that my local news paper (which has as much journalistic integrity as the Sun) referenced it's christmas "evil toy" list, and also a particular (very loud) Baptist priest in my city supposedly uses it to prepare his sermons. I suppose that makes it either good or bad satire, since it can be hard at first glance to tell wether or not it's for real.

      On a related note, this sort of thing does actually happen. A couple years back in Dransik, there was a player known as Bob the Warrior. He dedicated half his in-game time to saving people's souls, wether they needed it, wanted it, or not, and the other half to trying to convince rich players to give him Rune armor before it corrupted their souls. He never accomplished either, but he did manage to become one of the most hated people in the game to that point outside the guilds FU and AoS.

      He was even more obnoxious than the ficticious guy in this story, to the point that he couldn't even leave town without being followed by somebody who he'd angered with the intent of killing him. My guild at the time was a neutral trading guild and generally avoided the major guild wars, but even we listed him as KOS.

      He eventually accused me of persecuting him for his faith, demanding that me, all my guild mate and everybody we've associated with be permanantly banned and all their items given to him (with such a small game, this effectively amounts to 90% of the server population) and when the facts of the matter came to light (chat logs, screenshots, etc), he ended up with an IP ban and was never heard from again.

  3. Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Congratulations by Entropius · · Score: 4, Funny

      "[N]one of what they have posted is even remotely close to any church I've ever been to."

      You've not been to Alabama, have you?

    2. Re:Congratulations by Temporal · · Score: 4, Funny

      Congratulations, you totally missed the fact that this story is tagged "humor".

  4. Hilarious by rogueuk · · Score: 5, Informative

    That whole web site is hilarious. Apparently not too many people realize it's a joke..as seen here

  5. Please tell me that people know this is satire by Meiyo+Neko · · Score: 5, Informative

    If one were to actually take a glance at the Terms of Service Agreement they would have noticed, "The Landover Baptist Church is a complete work of fiction. It is a satire/parody."

  6. I'll get modded down for this... by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?