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RPG.net user points out irony of mods "not wanting to ban people", gets banned

Started by Trinculoisdead, October 20, 2020, 11:50:36 AM

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Brad

#30
October 21, 2020, 04:23:43 PM
So now rpg.net is anti-Christian. Well, guess that's better than pissing off Muslims, right?
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Batjon

#31
October 21, 2020, 04:46:53 PM
I don't think we should guilt trip someone that spent $150 on this game BEFORE any allegations came out for wanting to play the game he heavily invested in because the guy that wrote it ended up being a douche.  That is like never driving a car today because we now know Henry Ford was a racist in the 1800's.

Darrin Kelley

#32
October 21, 2020, 04:50:54 PM Last Edit: October 21, 2020, 05:01:50 PM by Darrin Kelley
Quote from: Brad on October 21, 2020, 04:23:43 PM
So now rpg.net is anti-Christian. Well, guess that's better than pissing off Muslims, right?

Actually, The Christians still following the contents of the Old Testament are going against the teachings of Christ. Christ's teachings were meant to supersede the Old Testament teachings. To end the savagery the Old Testament expoused.

The people spewing hate and bigotry based on Old Testament teachings are committing blasphemy in the eyes of the Christian faith.

I had a Christian upbringing. Studied the King James Bible extensively for a significant portion of my young life.
 

Darrin Kelley

#33
October 21, 2020, 04:59:15 PM
Quote from: Batjon on October 21, 2020, 04:46:53 PM
I don't think we should guilt trip someone that spent $150 on this game BEFORE any allegations came out for wanting to play the game he heavily invested in because the guy that wrote it ended up being a douche.  That is like never driving a car today because we now know Henry Ford was a racist in the 1800's.

I still own my Chill 3rd Edition products. And I have every intention of making use of those books. I paid good money for them.

But you have to know that The Big Purple has their own behind the scenes reasons for preventing discussion of the products produced by Matt McFarland. For refusing to allow anything even remotely resembling promotion of those products on their site or forums. They have that right as site owners.
 

Mishihari

#34
October 21, 2020, 05:00:43 PM
Quote from: Darrin Kelley on October 21, 2020, 04:50:54 PM
Quote from: Brad on October 21, 2020, 04:23:43 PM
So now rpg.net is anti-Christian. Well, guess that's better than pissing off Muslims, right?

Actually, The Christians still following the contents of the Old Testament are going against the teachings of Christ. Christ's teachings were meant to supersede the Old Testament teachings. To end the savagery the Old Testament expoused.

I had a Christian upbringing. Studied the King James Bible extensively for a significant portion of my young life.

??? This is in reference to ...?

Batjon

#35
October 21, 2020, 05:06:14 PM
Quote from: Darrin Kelley on October 21, 2020, 04:50:54 PM
Quote from: Brad on October 21, 2020, 04:23:43 PM
So now rpg.net is anti-Christian. Well, guess that's better than pissing off Muslims, right?

Actually, The Christians still following the contents of the Old Testament are going against the teachings of Christ. Christ's teachings were meant to supersede the Old Testament teachings. To end the savagery the Old Testament expoused.

I had a Christian upbringing. Studied the King James Bible extensively for a significant portion of my young life.

Actually, that is not completely agreed upon in Christendom.  In Matthew 5:17 Jesus said in the Bible "I did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it."  In John 14:15 Jesus says "If you love me, then keep my commandments."

The apostle Paul also spoke to this in the New Testament.

At the end of the day, we are to love the sinner but hate the sin.  We are all guilty of sin and fall short if not for his grace.

Stephen Tannhauser

#36
October 21, 2020, 05:12:18 PM
Quote from: Darrin Kelley on October 21, 2020, 04:50:54 PMActually, The Christians still following the contents of the Old Testament are going against the teachings of Christ. Christ's teachings were meant to supersede the Old Testament teachings. To end the savagery the Old Testament expoused.

The people spewing hate and bigotry based on Old Testament teachings are committing blasphemy in the eyes of the Christian faith.

Spewing hatred and bigotry is absolutely antithetical to proper Christian practice, I would agree. Upholding the traditional Christian teachings on the proper role and function of sexuality -- which forbid quite a large array of modern sexual practices of all kinds, orientation notwithstanding -- need not constitute hatred and bigotry.

Unfortunately TBP's mods have long since abandoned that level of distinction; there is only one acceptable way to talk about the topic now, and it does not allow traditional Christians (or, strictly speaking, orthodox Jews or Muslims either) to defend their beliefs. If any discussion of such topics at all was limited by rule to Tangency, it would be less of an issue, but it's the explicit silencing by stance rather than context or manner that I find intolerable.
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

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Darrin Kelley

#37
October 21, 2020, 05:19:27 PM
Quote from: Batjon on October 21, 2020, 05:06:14 PM
Actually, that is not completely agreed upon in Christendom.  In Matthew 5:17 Jesus said in the Bible "I did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it."  In John 14:15 Jesus says "If you love me, then keep my commandments."

The apostle Paul also spoke to this in the New Testament.

At the end of the day, we are to love the sinner but hate the sin.  We are all guilty of sin and fall short if not for his grace.

There is nothing in the Ten Commandments that calls homosexuality an abomination or even a sin. None. Zero. And those are the only commandments in the Old Testament. Everything else is based on the opinion of the writer of the individual book. Not the word of God.
 

Stephen Tannhauser

#38
October 21, 2020, 05:35:56 PM
To avoid annoying our host I might suggest that this particular rabbit hole is best not gone farther down into, at the moment.
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

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Mishihari

#39
October 21, 2020, 05:39:27 PM
Quote from: Darrin Kelley on October 21, 2020, 05:19:27 PM
Quote from: Batjon on October 21, 2020, 05:06:14 PM
Actually, that is not completely agreed upon in Christendom.  In Matthew 5:17 Jesus said in the Bible "I did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it."  In John 14:15 Jesus says "If you love me, then keep my commandments."

The apostle Paul also spoke to this in the New Testament.

At the end of the day, we are to love the sinner but hate the sin.  We are all guilty of sin and fall short if not for his grace.

There is nothing in the Ten Commandments that calls homosexuality an abomination or even a sin. None. Zero. And those are the only commandments in the Old Testament. Everything else is based on the opinion of the writer of the individual book. Not the word of God.

That argument requires believing that the prophets of the old testament and the apostles of the new testament were only speaking their own opinions, not the word of God.  I don't think that's defensible in light of the rest of the scriptures.

Mishihari

#40
October 21, 2020, 05:40:29 PM
Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on October 21, 2020, 05:35:56 PM
To avoid annoying our host I might suggest that this particular rabbit hole is best not gone farther down into, at the moment.

Mr. Tannhauser has a good point.  I'll leave it at that.

Hawkwing7423

#42
October 21, 2020, 05:43:56 PM
Quote from: Darrin Kelley on October 21, 2020, 05:19:27 PM

There is nothing in the Ten Commandments that calls homosexuality an abomination or even a sin. None. Zero. And those are the only commandments in the Old Testament. Everything else is based on the opinion of the writer of the individual book. Not the word of God.
Are you one of those Atheists who love to tell Christians what they really believe?

Darrin Kelley

#43
October 21, 2020, 05:46:12 PM
Quote from: Hawkwing7423 on October 21, 2020, 05:43:56 PM
Are you one of those Atheists who love to tell Christians what they really believe?

I'm not an Atheist.
 

SHARK

#44
October 21, 2020, 06:34:17 PM
Quote from: Mishihari on October 21, 2020, 05:39:27 PM
Quote from: Darrin Kelley on October 21, 2020, 05:19:27 PM
Quote from: Batjon on October 21, 2020, 05:06:14 PM
Actually, that is not completely agreed upon in Christendom.  In Matthew 5:17 Jesus said in the Bible "I did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it."  In John 14:15 Jesus says "If you love me, then keep my commandments."

The apostle Paul also spoke to this in the New Testament.

At the end of the day, we are to love the sinner but hate the sin.  We are all guilty of sin and fall short if not for his grace.

There is nothing in the Ten Commandments that calls homosexuality an abomination or even a sin. None. Zero. And those are the only commandments in the Old Testament. Everything else is based on the opinion of the writer of the individual book. Not the word of God.

That argument requires believing that the prophets of the old testament and the apostles of the new testament were only speaking their own opinions, not the word of God.  I don't think that's defensible in light of the rest of the scriptures.

Greetings!

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SHARK
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