Brain hurts now

[omimouse]

Reading Chick Tracts can be amusing. Reading the articles on D&D that they have up on the site however . . .

It's sad when I'm a better Christian than most people who call themselves Christian are. It really is. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick, shelter the needy. It's even sadder when the character that I'm going to be playing this weekend is a better Christian than most.

Y'know, the cleric of sun, moon, and stars that loves without condition, heals, comforts, tithes to churches that aid the needy, forgives, and who spends much more time practicing her beliefs than preaching them.

But, in the popular 'Christian' worldview she also pays homage to more than one god, has a female lover, and is a sorcerer in addition to being a cleric. In the popular 'Christian' worldview, I am pagan, bisexual, and have two husbands.

-sigh- My polypantheistic D&D cleric3/sorcerer4/mystic wanderer2 should not be a better Christian than the outspoken majority of Christianity. Okay? The fact that she is means that there's a real problem here, folks.

Comments

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

The key here is "outspoken majority." Dilbert once observed that the craziest people seem to be the ones that define reality. That may be true; they're certainly the most visible ones.

The people who write Chick tracts are, in some ways, the craziest of Christians. They certainly qualify as fanatics, in my opinion. They are not, as far as I know, a true majority of Christians. They're just the ones that talk too much.

And like a songbird in the same room as the stereo, the quiet people who are too busy being Christian to talk about it go completely unnoticed. Can't hear 'em over the noise.

Peter Eng

i thought Chick was a chicken baby

[titaniablue.livejournal.com]

even as a christian, i'm one of the weirdo "odd people out." the folks who do the Chick tracts, in my opinion, are probably sitting there with a demon attached to their backs whispering in their ears telling them what to write in order to drive away potential "good and actual christians" from the very faith the tract writer thinks he's defending. it's people like them that drove me out of church in the first place. in fact, it's people like them that drove just about all of my pagan friends out of church in the first place. those people, as far as i'm concerned, are not christians at all, but sleeper agents working for the other side. they scare people away more than scare them into acting "right." i find Chick tracts laughable at best, at worst they are a form of evil much worse than that which they are "warning" against.