The Glade 4.0

Alright, knock off the poor persecuted Christians ****.

We had the single most evangelistic member of the board post a thread titled, "He is risen." Everyone else dogpiled on and proceeded to "Yay Jesus!" themselves straight to the Pearly Gates. Nobody wants to acknowledge it, but the ramming of religious beliefs down the throats of others was well taken care of before Riov posted anything, and certainly long before Taly got involved.

Now I know everyone was just celebrating how they're all Saved because of one day out of the year that's determined by phases of the moon. Knock yourselves out. It's your most important holiday. Get on with your bad selves. But this grumbling about inconsiderate jackasses ramming their religious beliefs down other people's throats? What do you think that initial thread was doing?

I'll tell you: None of you stopped to think. You never considered it, and that's what "inconsiderate" means.

Ah, I see where I went wrong. I have once again overestimated the reading comprehension skills of the rest of this board. That was my fault. I know better.

You, because you fail to read anything beyond that which you dearly wish to read, have misunderstood what I meant. I will elaborate. I am not complaining about inconsiderate Christians ramming their religious beliefs down my throat. I am calling you all stupid and hypocritical jackasses. I have vain hopes for humanity that they can learn from their mistakes if they are called out on them. My hopes are once again dashed.

Here is the chain of events.

1) Easter Sunday, I notice a thread that is a very thinly-veiled attempt by our resident evangelist to evangelize his little Christian heart out.

2) I assume Christians are happy evangelizing, yaying God, and praising Jesus.

3) ohn0z! The Talygrinch stole Easter!

4) Wednesday morning, I see another thread that looks to be four pages of Bery whining about what happened to his thinly-veiled attempt to evangelize.

5) I click the thread and discover I am correct.

6) I click the other thread to verify that my previous assumption was indeed correct. It was.

Now, I notice a lot of people whining about inconsiderate assholes. The fact that Christians represent a substantial portion of the board's population does not mean they are any less inconsiderate when they make threads whose sole purpose is to evangelize. Multiple Christians on this board (one of whom is the progenitor of the thread) have stated on multiple occasions that the purpose of the Christian is to sing His Praises. So while someone could tell me that the thread we're all ***** about was merely intended to celebrate Easter, they would either be incorrect or outright lying.

When your pastor tells you that you should act like Christ, he means the Christ that showed the world the best humanity had to offer, not the Christ who ran around holding up the holes in his hands and feeding everyone a guilt trip about how he had to suffer for crimes someone else committed.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

now what happened to my thread, as well as this one: Some people who hate just couldn't stop themselves from spewing their hate into that thread, or into this one. I don't blame you, I suppose. You just can't help yourselves. That's unfortunate.

According to some people today, however, whether or not the resurrection actually occurred is of little importance. Confronted with the bold truth claims of Jesus Christ – for example, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) – they try to obscure or avoid Christ’s declaration by saying they simply revere him as a great moral teacher, nothing more. If archeologists unearthed Jesus’ occupied tomb, it would not change their opinion of Christ at all.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Do you mean Arathain? As of my last post, Rynar appeared to be following board rules.

Ah, I see where I went wrong. I have once again overestimated the reading comprehension skills of the rest of this board. That was my fault. I know better.

You, because you fail to read anything beyond that which you dearly wish to read, have misunderstood what I meant. I will elaborate. I am not complaining about inconsiderate Christians ramming their religious beliefs down my throat. I am calling you all stupid and hypocritical jackasses. I have vain hopes for humanity that they can learn from their mistakes if they are called out on them. My hopes are once again dashed.

Here is the chain of events.

1) Easter Sunday, I notice a thread that is a very thinly-veiled attempt by our resident evangelist to evangelize his little Christian heart out.

2) I assume Christians are happy evangelizing, yaying God, and praising Jesus.

3) ohn0z! The Talygrinch stole Easter!

4) Wednesday morning, I see another thread that looks to be four pages of Bery whining about what happened to his thinly-veiled attempt to evangelize.

5) I click the thread and discover I am correct.

6) I click the other thread to verify that my previous assumption was indeed correct. It was.

Now, I notice a lot of people whining about inconsiderate assholes. The fact that Christians represent a substantial portion of the board's population does not mean they are any less inconsiderate when they make threads whose sole purpose is to evangelize. Multiple Christians on this board (one of whom is the progenitor of the thread) have stated on multiple occasions that the purpose of the Christian is to sing His Praises. So while someone could tell me that the thread we're all ***** about was merely intended to celebrate Easter, they would either be incorrect or outright lying.

When your pastor tells you that you should act like Christ, he means the Christ that showed the world the best humanity had to offer, not the Christ who ran around holding up the holes in his hands and feeding everyone a guilt trip about how he had to suffer for crimes someone else committed.

Since you are already wrong at point 1)......Maybe you should start helping humanity learn from their mistakes by learning from your own. Ya think?

You know, I totally missed that link in your third post until Khross pointed it out. Therefore I'll admit to making at *** of myself by claiming you weren't trying to evangelize.

You pretty clearly were, and I should ahve been paying more attention.

That doesn't change the fact, of course, that none of the rest of us were trying to evangelize or do anything but have a Happy Easter thread. Thanks for **** it all up though. If you didn't engage in this kind of douchebaggery, we wouldn't see people using your ******* behavior as an excuse to try to generalize it to every other Christian.

childish? *raised eyebrow* please expound on this

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

I'll leave that for someone else to do. My original analysis was that this thread will do no good, go no further in any rational discussion. Others disagreed. My option to lock it was argued with so I agreed to the greater of two evils and unlocked it and shipped it to Hellfire. Just, like me, ignore the thread from here on in. Bery, you're a good man, do nothing, let evil succeed here. Choose the battles that matter and fight there.

Peace, out and gone from this thread. It is Hellfire, no moderation needed and some of the comments disgust me.

Guys, this is really sad. Seriously.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

I sincerely doubt you have ever seen me post seriously about my faith or my beliefs prior to this incident. I keep them far away from this board and most other public forums for my own reasons. You have, on several occasions, seen me question Beryllin's behavior and approach with regard to this faith. So, let me just say this, LadyKate:

I find it supremely offensive that Beryllin chose to use your Faith, Jasmy's Faith, NiteFox's Faith, Vindicarre's Faith, Arathain's Faith, Diamondeye's Faith, and the Faith of every other Christian, public or private, on these forums as a shield for his political wankery. And I find it, amazingly, more offensive that he has so little respect for differences in the Christian faith of various posters as to assume that a thread exulting Easter and the Resurrection is the appropriate place for such political aggrandizement.

You pretty clearly were,...If you didn't engage in this kind of douchebaggery, we wouldn't see people using your ******* behavior as an excuse to try to generalize it to every other Christian.