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

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

I'm very pleased to hear that.

Where are you finding this reading matter? I'd like to check it out myself, so that (in my voluminous free time) I might be able to get involved. It might be very satisfying to say "Get off my team!" from time to time, but it would be much more effective if I said it where they could hear it.

[cerval.livejournal.com]

Most recently, I suggest the excellent post in crossfire_'s journal, which contains a speech from a Texas (Senator? Congresswoman? I'm not all the way awake yet...). It's truly moving. A lot of the rest of what I've read has been 'here-and-there'. There was a great article in Westword, a local paper here, that I linked to a few months back, and several articles that have been in the other local paper. Seems like I've seen it mentioned in other journals as well. The general feeling is that all of the "nice, good Christians" have to pull together, instead of individually, since they're working against such a unified force.