Christian group (FRC) vs SWTOR

[Tiglits]

You think it is right that they can demonize gay people? You think it is "beautiful" that they have the right to do that? You think it is right for them to preach and spread hatred?

I think there's beauty in the fact that no matter how pathetic or wrong their opinion might be, they're allowed to have it, and they're allowed to express it. Do I dislike them for having it? Yes. Would I ever agree with them or want to talk to them? Not really. But if we censored people for something like this, where would you draw the line? Do I think it's right? Not at all, but I'm glad they can do it because it means I'd be able to share my own unpopular opinion if it ever came up.

[bregtann]

murdering, backstabbing, greed, hate, anger, power, domination, and little regard for human life....

all terrible things that describe much of Christianity's history

and these people are worried about homosexuality

Fixed it for ya...

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[Korgoth]

I just read this as: "I want to play a mass murdering psychopath with slaves and evil dark powers, but I dont want to see a flirt option when I interact with male crew members because that would be anti christian".

[Dannyl]

Even wierder that people who don't believe in said god should be punished for doing things or being who they are.
I just wish religious nutjobs would stick to arguing between themselves and leaving non-religious people alone. We aren't part of their religion, thusly we shouldn't have them bothering us or trying to tell us what to do.

That's the irony of it all, many religions have an obsession to spread their world view and it particularly implies to atheists. Not all of them ofc but many of them do and stuff people do in their devotion to their god holds no bounds. The good news is that these days, in most civilized countries, laws prevent most of that stuff so they have to settle for hate groups on the internet.

[Sills]

These kinds of groups never cease to amaze me at the lengths that they are willing to go. Ridiculous claims and Im certain there will be no changes in the game over this.

[MuskiER]

You would notice how stupid some people are about how some thing may be going cuz it doesnt match their view on life.

Example

http://features.peta.org/mario-kills-tanooki/

^ basically about how PETA doesnt like mario wearing an endangered animal skin called tanooki.

[finchna]

Do you think this kind of stuff will have any impact on the company or game considering the size of their audience and followers?

I hope not.

[Noomz]

the truth is, there arent that many "real christians" , a lot of people say they are christian, but that is just by birth, the number of people going to church and participating is much much less than the number of people who say they are christian, also not that everyone in prison seems to be christian

A lot of people say it because they don't dare not say it. Try calling yourself atheist in Texas. You'd be persecuted for crying out loud.
Plenty of people will come along and say "Oh these people are so bad and wrong etc". But are they really wrong in the sense that they have interpreted or read things in the wrong way? I sincerely doubt it, they've just gone further then people might usually dare to do. This is the real face of the Bible, and it's only frowned upon because we've made such steps in society so as to learn that most of it is despicable.
Thusly, many people calling themselves Christian conflict in their upbringings and are quite the hypocrits. But I don't mean to insult anyone with that, beacuse I reckon there aren't many people that have actually thought about it.

This is the real face of Christianity, this is what the Bible talks about. Yes, it says things about love and tolerance, but that's just one of many contradictions. Mostly because it's a contrived collection of writings made by many people over several hundreds of years and changed several times.
It both saddens and frightens me that people follow something like a book that states ultimates and undisputable truths.
This contradictory book has thusly spawned many different interpretations and branches of Christianity as a result. Just adding to how inprobably and ridiculous it is.
Then again, from what I've read, God is far from benevolent. Something that is rarely talked about by people calling themselves Christians.
It's about cherry picking. People pick what they think sounds good to make it work for them.

I just want to clarify that if anyone feels offended by what I've written, it hasn't been my intention to offend you. But perhaps my words are offensive, because they have a lot of weight and power. I find reason and logic is often rejected with anger and pride.

[Gittyup]

Really? Because I feel it's a beauty that people can have opinions like this even if it's considered incorrect by the majority of the population.

I would feel the same way, if these same people weren't the type to spout about freedoms even while saying shit against gays(or anyone that doesn't believe the same things as them for that matter) I am all for free speech and open opinions but hypocrisy is something that is way too rampant with some hardcore religious groups/people. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Perkins_(politician)

Louisiana House of Representatives 1996-2004

Perkins won his seat in the Louisiana House from District 64 (the eastern Baton Rouge suburbs, including part of Livingston Parish) in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995, when he defeated the Democrat Herman L. Milton of Baker, 9,476 (63.3 percent) to 5,487 (36.7 percent). The Democrat incumbent, Michael "Mike" McCleary, did not seek reelection.[2] Representative Perkins thereafter authored legislation to require public schools to install Internet filtering software, provide daily silent prayer in Louisiana public schools, to establish the first covenant marriage law, and to authorize the American History Preservation Act, the stated aim of which is to "prevent censorship of America's Christian heritage" in public schools.

I find sad that anyone that can fight for censorship of things they don't like, and then say they want to prevent censorship of something they do could ever be considered some kind of free speech martyr.

[Noomz]

That's the irony of it all, many religions have an obsession to spread their world view and it particularly implies to atheists. Not all of them ofc but many of them do and stuff people do in their devotion to their god holds no bounds. The good news is that these days, in most civilized countries, laws prevent most of that stuff so they have to settle for hate groups on the internet.

Atheists and simply people who don't want to be religious, are at high risk in the US today, because religious groups are gaining a lot of power.
Religion is a great power tool, and that's what it was made for. It has a lot of ground in the US, and certainly decides laws that prohibit the freedoms and lives of people who are of either a different religion, or not religious at all.

It's a lot easier to hate, then it is to love. It's a lot harder to be wise, then is to be a fool.

[Thedoc23]

It didn't have any impact with Dragon Age, and as far as I know nothing made a dent in Biowares plans to do the same feature with MAss Effect 3 so I dought it will do anything here

[MuskiER]

A lot of people say it because they don't dare not say it. Try calling yourself atheist in Texas. You'd be persecuted for crying out loud.
Plenty of people will come along and say "Oh these people are so bad and wrong etc". But are they really wrong in the sense that they have interpreted or read things in the wrong way? I sincerely doubt it, they've just gone further then people might usually dare to do. This is the real face of the Bible, and it's only frowned upon because we've made such steps in society so as to learn that most of it is despicable.
Thusly, many people calling themselves Christian conflict in their upbringings and are quite the hypocrits. But I don't mean to insult anyone with that, beacuse I reckon there aren't many people that have actually thought about it.

This is the real face of Christianity, this is what the Bible talks about. Yes, it says things about love and tolerance, but that's just one of many contradictions. Mostly because it's a contrived collection of writings made by many people over several hundreds of years and changed several times.
It both saddens and frightens me that people follow something like a book that states ultimates and undisputable truths.
This contradictory book has thusly spawned many different interpretations and branches of Christianity as a result. Just adding to how inprobably and ridiculous it is.
Then again, from what I've read, God is far from benevolent. Something that is rarely talked about by people calling themselves Christians.
It's about cherry picking. People pick what they think sounds good to make it work for them.

I just want to clarify that if anyone feels offended by what I've written, it hasn't been my intention to offend you. But perhaps my words are offensive, because they have a lot of weight and power. I find reason and logic is often rejected with anger and pride.

Touched even tho i left the church long ago +1

[Azerox]

Some humans are just crazy .. deal with it

edit: to some posts above, if you say your atheist .. that means ur against in believe in a god .. not only that u dont care.

[Domiku]

erm wtf, loads of games have same sex things in them. WoW has some lesbian characters in the story if i recall some chick in stormwind and there another lady also cant remember where she at though.

[Tiglits]

A lot of people say it because they don't dare not say it. Try calling yourself atheist in Texas. You'd be persecuted for crying out loud.
Plenty of people will come along and say "Oh these people are so bad and wrong etc". But are they really wrong in the sense that they have interpreted or read things in the wrong way? I sincerely doubt it, they've just gone further then people might usually dare to do. This is the real face of the Bible, and it's only frowned upon because we've made such steps in society so as to learn that most of it is despicable.
Thusly, many people calling themselves Christian conflict in their upbringings and are quite the hypocrits. But I don't mean to insult anyone with that, beacuse I reckon there aren't many people that have actually thought about it.

This is the real face of Christianity, this is what the Bible talks about. Yes, it says things about love and tolerance, but that's just one of many contradictions. Mostly because it's a contrived collection of writings made by many people over several hundreds of years and changed several times.
It both saddens and frightens me that people follow something like a book that states ultimates and undisputable truths.
This contradictory book has thusly spawned many different interpretations and branches of Christianity as a result. Just adding to how inprobably and ridiculous it is.
Then again, from what I've read, God is far from benevolent. Something that is rarely talked about by people calling themselves Christians.
It's about cherry picking. People pick what they think sounds good to make it work for them.

I just want to clarify that if anyone feels offended by what I've written, it hasn't been my intention to offend you. But perhaps my words are offensive, because they have a lot of weight and power. I find reason and logic is often rejected with anger and pride.

I only feel offended for your sweeping generalizations. Not because they're wrong but because I deeply fear that some of it is true, and it scares me to find that I'm being swept under the very same rug that they are. More than that, I'm offended that you call it a book of contradictions when, even as my time as an Atheist, I found no such things that could not be explained with context and something better than the condescending attitude that you're taking. You're right that the Christian God isn't all love. He is also justice and righteousness, so it's not all "lovey dovey" as it's being preached today. Sorry about that. It's caused an awful lot of misleading, I must admit. I'm sort of baffled as to how you claim that you're using "logic and reason" but defer yourself to such indisputable bias in doublespeak such as calling my faith "ridiculous" and belittling me as a person for it.

[Soltsu]

People who want to play that game, scifi nerds, aren't usually Christian or belong to any major religion, and are able to think with their own brains ^__^

But I can imagine the outrage that commentary like that have on the elder people who have been following the religion their whole life

[Hobb]

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ" - Gandhi

[Encanta]

These are the same idiots that will boycott Wal-Mart etc. for selling Diablo 3.

[cherb]

You'd think with so much shit going on in the world, people would have something better to bitch about than a make believe virtual world.

[Dannyl]

Atheists and simply people who don't want to be religious, are at high risk in the US today, because religious groups are gaining a lot of power. Religion is a great power tool, and that's what it was made for. It has a lot of ground in the US, and certainly decides laws that prohibit the freedoms and lives of people who are of either a different religion, or not religious at all.

Well... being an atheist and not wanting to be religious aren't the same thing but yeah, I'm aware of the relationship between power and religion. Just glad I'm not an american

edit: to some posts above, if you say your atheist .. that means ur against in believe in a god .. not only that u dont care.

That's not entirely accurate. Yes, in a sense atheism is the rejection of belief in the divine. However, specifically, a true atheist does not choose to be one. It stems from the fact that you simply do not believe in the existence of deities and other divine beings and realms. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with not caring, one way or another.