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Winning Souls In World Of Warcraft 141
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."
Also from the article (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Also from the article (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Very Un-Christian Behaviour (Score:2, Insightful)
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,
Re:Very Un-Christian Behaviour (Score:1)
THIS IS NOT REAL
This is just another trolling article from landoverbaptist.org, a site that is very anti-christian, to a point that many, including myself would consider far beyond satire. So if your offended by anything the article says, that was the point, and you fell for there little game, please don't take for granted that people are what they claim to be in the future, especialy not online.
Re:Very Un-Christian Behaviour (Score:4, Informative)
If you look at that site, and cannot instantly tell that it is meant to be humorous, you completely and utterly deserve the mockery and scorn of everyone else who can.
The authors of that site have a very valid message that is delivered very effectively. If you're offended as a xtian, why don't you take some time and convince those xtians you know who DO act like that to stop behaving in the ways that landoverbaptist lampoons?
Remember while you're being offended at someone who can make fun of your religion, that the evangelical xtian community didn't get upset when Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on gays and feminists, and George W. "Born Again" Bush has in the past publicly described the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as "Crusades". These are not exactly folks with shining ideals of tolerance and goodwill. Kind of makes me think that "people are what they claim to be" is only true if you START from the point of view of Landoverbaptist, at least as far as evangelical-types go. If you feel that their humor is in poor taste, just remember that those on the other side feels much the same way about you.
If you're offended as a xtian?? (Score:2)
"f you feel that their humor is in poor taste, just remember that those on the other side feels much the same way about you."
I think that Nazis and the Klan are evil as can be. I guess I should remember that there are Nazis and
Re:If you're offended as a xtian?? (Score:3, Interesting)
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?? (Score:3, Interesting)
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
Re:Very Un-Christian Behaviour (Score:1)
I spent an hour there (Score:2)
Funny, but... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Funny, but... (Score:2)
Re:Funny, but... (Score:2)
It's funny because... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It's funny because... (Score:2, Insightful)
Probably because it's still not much of an exageration.
I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? (Score:5, Insightful)
Please?
Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? (Score:1)
Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? (Score:1)
Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? (Score:1)
I started reading this and was laughing my head off, then I panicked and wasnt sure.
Ive heard that there are some americans who take religion very seriously but surely that couldnt be this bad!
It could jsut about have been real
Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:I thought Landover Baptist was satire, right? (Score:1)
Not that I subscribe to any religion, but why would you follow some superior being that you fear over all-else?
Congratulations (Score:5, Insightful)
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 (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
What Great Schism? (Score:2)
But if it were true... (Score:1)
Re:But if it were true... (Score:1)
Neutral city my ass.
Re:Congratulations (Score:5, Funny)
You've not been to Alabama, have you?
Re:Congratulations (Score:2)
Re:Congratulations (Score:1)
Re:Congratulations (Score:2)
Georgia, however, is worse. People in Alabama are sort of passive rednecks--Georgian rednecks are the more active variety.
Re:Congratulations (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Congratulations (Score:3, Informative)
Hilarious (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hilarious (Score:1)
Re:Hilarious (Score:2)
Re:Hilarious (Score:2)
Re:Hilarious (Score:2)
It should be banned, plain and simple. It is too dangerous in the hands of untrained laypeople.
Re:Hilarious (Score:3, Insightful)
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' ...
Re:Hilarious (Score:4, Funny)
Look at the ad on the bottom of that JesusSave.us site: http://www.preparingdaughters.com/ [jesussave.us]
"PreparingDaughters.com, Dedidcated to building up Godly young ladies. *Now With Recipes!*"
Jesus H. Christ, they're cooking their children! These sickos must be stopped.
Re:Hilarious (Score:2)
Re:This guy calls himself a Christian? (Score:1)
Re:This guy calls himself a Christian? (Score:2)
For added fun, level priests up to Mind Control them to attack each other.
Re:This guy calls himself a Christian? (Score:3, Funny)
What we want is MMORPG where the Christian meetings have to be held in secret for fear of all the attendees getting crucified and/or thrown to the lions. Oh wait, there already is one and it's in my sig!
LOL (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, to recognize the troll, it helps to have been a fundimentalist Christian in one of your past lives...
Re:LOL (Score:4, Interesting)
In other news from the site... (Score:4, Funny)
Please tell me that people know this is satire (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Please tell me that people know this is satire (Score:2)
Re:Please tell me that people know this is satire (Score:2)
Re:Please tell me that people know this is satire (Score:2)
Umm, humour? (Score:4, Informative)
Landover Baptist is the same 'church' that sells Jesus thongs and other terribly funny stuff.
The same guys that run Landover Baptist also do WhiteHouse.org [whitehouse.org]
Re:Umm, humour? (Score:1)
Re:Umm, humour? (Score:2)
Re:Umm, humour? (Score:1)
They also promise a free PlayStation 2 if you accept Jesus as your saviour.
"If you've never heard of Jesus, He is an invisible cloud-dwelling deity (infinite lives!) who loves you very much and wants nothing more than to give you a free PlayStation 2!"
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0104/ps2.html
Satire or not... (Score:1)
Re:Satire or not... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Satire or not... (Score:2)
And that is what makes it so good. It makes it so clear to see how dumb many of the beliefs of fundamentalist christians are.
It's a start (Score:1)
Re:It's a start (Score:1)
The ultimate goal of the mmorpg is to help rebuild the Temple Mount (in real life) and bring about the apocalypse.
From the article:
"Players navigate the narrow streets and bustling marketplaces trying to uncover and decipher Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scriptural clues relating to the end-times. They can choose to kill each other, but they won't be able to move to the next level if they do. The goal is to unlock the secret that will induce the
Re:It's a start (Score:1)
Gotta love the adverts.. (Score:3, Funny)
WWJD Thongs [cafepress.com]
Absolutely Classic.
Landover Baptist is a joke, but not ToJ... (Score:3, Funny)
There really is a WoW Christian Guild, named God's Peons [www.toj.cc]. They are a chapter of the Tribe of Judah [www.toj.cc].
The best part of the ToJ webpage is the FAQ about why Mormon's can't join [www.toj.cc] the Tribe.
Re:Landover Baptist is a joke, but not ToJ... (Score:1)
Re:Landover Baptist is a joke, but not ToJ... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Landover Baptist is a joke, but not ToJ... (Score:2)
Re:Was believing it until... (Score:1)
as stated already (Score:2, Insightful)
normally I don't bitch about the stories posted on
I almost bought it untill I saw the link..
I'm eagerly waiting for new reputable news sources (Score:2)
(For the uninitiated, google for weekly world news)
Re:I'm eagerly waiting for new reputable news sour (Score:1)
the best part of this (Score:1, Insightful)
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 (Score:1, Insightful)
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
Re:the best part of this (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:the best part of this (Score:1)
Hard to take them seriously (Score:2, Funny)
It's also hard to take them seriously when there is an ad on the bottom of he page for a thong that says "What would Jesus do?".
Time for a can of whoop ass (Score:3, Funny)
I'd love to see this jackass. I mean I spent 5 years of basically hell in the military protecting his damn free speech rights and whatnot and just to hear someone like this who claims to be a Christian spew forth crap like that just plain pisses me off.
I think he needs to be eyeing his purity a little closer than saying were a bunch of moon faced wiccan fags with no friends.
Re:Time for a can of whoop ass (Score:2)
But there are asses in the world like the guy they make out in the story. You have to look no further the white house.
Re:Time for a can of whoop ass (Score:1)
Re:Time for a can of whoop ass (Score:2)
Err. GP didn't say anything of the sort. He was quoting the FA.
Article should be removed... (Score:1, Insightful)
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. T
I'll get modded down for this... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I'll get modded down for this... (Score:1)
Re:I'll get modded down for this... (Score:2)
I'd join for boobie links.
Re:I'll get modded down for this... (Score:2)
Longest running satire on the web (Score:1)
I was fished in. (Score:2)
Pfff (Score:1)
Oh, the complaints (Score:3, Informative)
You guys can tell that this is a satirical web site, right?
Landover baptist... (Score:1)
Obviously a Farce (Score:1)
I knew that sounded a little weird so I checked Mark 16:15 out and this is what it really says:
Loosers? (Score:1)
Re:There's four types of people (Score:1)