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Tesora

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Considering the layout and content of this site, do those ads that say "turn away from sin" and "repent or perish" make you laugh as much as they make me laugh? Lol
 
Yes they do. I think I saw something about accepting Jesus the other day and I thought at first it was someone's weird religious kink.
 
While faith in Jesus Christ and writing erotic rps aren't mutually exclusive, I just saw the sign that said REPENT OR BURN IN HELLFIRE! ...I guess they needed to use the big guns for the banner on this site.
 
The represent our burn in hell made me snort. I was hoping I was not the only one seeing them XD
 
I could say a whole bunch of snarky things about this but I think I should keep my mouth shut. XD
 
I know the site has no control over the ads that are shown, but this is a site with demon's raping angels and demons keeping human slaves, and all other manners of sin and depravity and we're getting ads that say repent or die in hell. The irony is strong in this one lol
 
WHAT!?!
All my ads are super fucking sexual!!! I logged in at the community college and it was an ad for a bestiality site!!!! Every ad I get is all completely sexual. I haven't gotten any of these religious ones.

As I type this there is something for "Cutiful Hentai" and theres Harley Quinn [Probably spelled that wrong...] and I think mystique and mystique has a cum covered face. Like....really >>;
 
I have nothing against religion, But when you try to use religion to put fear into people I think it goes to far. And yeah it is slightly hilarious that those ads end up on this site.
 
Karameida, I have that advertisement now too. But I've had the religious ones for a week. Not now, but certainly befrehand.
 
Someone should come up with an rp based on whoever created the ad. The person who came up with it gets corrupted into becoming an online sexual rp'er.

Oh the fun that would be.
 
Asphodel Terrarium said:
I second KaitouKids' thought. Relogion should not threaten or use scare tactics in advertisement... It just doesn't feel right.
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From what I know of Christianity, the story goes: Jesus and Lucifer were on opposite sides when we were all just spirits in Heaven. Jesus came up with the plan for us to come down here on Earth so we could forget our life as spirits and be tested; so we could choose to follow and love God even when presented with other options and desires. Lucifer came up with a plan too. He wanted everyone to go down to Earth but to automatically get a clean check; Earth life would be a glorification of God but just in human bodies. We wouldn't get a choice, because it wouldn't be fair that some of us wouldn't choose God because we didn't know any better. We would all be allowed to reach the ultimate prize of Heaven life at the end by being forced to choose God. And Lucifer lost the election and was cast out with all of his campaign managers, and those who fought for him even when he lost, which ended up being a 1/3 of the host of Heaven.

As far as I'm concerned, Christians who support the idea of using fear tactics, or using government to proselytize, are Satan's emissaries. Making abortion or gay marriage illegal takes away people's ability to choose for themselves; things like that make God's will the law of the land, punishable if it's not obeyed. Who's plan does that sound like? Not Christ's. Especially with things that affect nobody else but those who choose to do those things. Just my personal opinion and something I've always felt was wrong about advertisements like that and in particular laws and government being used to strong arm people into a faith they don't support.
 
To your point Rudolph, it's the same sort of tactics used by hate groups like the KKK and Westboro Baptist Church. WBC is so bad you could go onto their website and they literally have numbers of "how much oil God has spilled into the Ocean" or "how many people have gone to hell since you opened this website" and "how many soldiers have died and gone to hell fighting for doomed America". Scare tactics are not the way to go about things. I'm a Christian, but perhaps not a very good Christian. I discount a lot of the bible's teachings, sticking only with the teachings of Christ.

Love one another, give aid to the poor, count your blessings, never believe you are past redemption and always be there for your neighbor. Don't be ashamed of your kindness and have an open heart. I feel like, if I live my life as a good person, I'm doing the right thing. ANd I'm not afraid of going to hell. There's a great movie called "Saved!" about a girl who becomes pregnant and goes to a truly Christian school.

At one point, her ex best friend Hillary Faye tries to turn her back to God when she's having her doubts and when Mary walks away, Hillary throws a bible at her and it hits her in the back saying "I am full of Christ's Love". Mary turns around picks the bible up and goes "This is not a weapon." Another great line is near the end of the film when Mary says something to the effect that "If God made us all so different, why would he want us all to be the same." It's a great film, one of my favorites.
 
Lol, time for me to go on a long off-topic post again...

Asphodel Terrarium said:
I second KaitouKids' thought. Relogion should not threaten or use scare tactics in advertisement... It just doesn't feel right.
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Ostensibly, the motivation to be a good person should be that you want to, that you feel compassion for your fellow humans, and a love for God.
But somewhere along the way, yeah, the hellfire and brimstone thing got popular.


Rudolph Quin said:
From what I know of Christianity, the story goes: Jesus and Lucifer were on opposite sides when we were all just spirits in Heaven. Jesus came up with the plan for us to come down here on Earth so we could forget our life as spirits and be tested; so we could choose to follow and love God even when presented with other options and desires. Lucifer came up with a plan too. He wanted everyone to go down to Earth but to automatically get a clean check; Earth life would be a glorification of God but just in human bodies. We wouldn't get a choice, because it wouldn't be fair that some of us wouldn't choose God because we didn't know any better. We would all be allowed to reach the ultimate prize of Heaven life at the end by being forced to choose God. And Lucifer lost the election and was cast out with all of his campaign managers, and those who fought for him even when he lost, which ended up being a 1/3 of the host of Heaven.
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What you said sounds like the Latter-Day Saint doctrine (though I'm not 100% familiar with that one).

With evangelical protestants, it varies a bit, due to the fact that the Bible says some stuff, and popular Christian tradition says some other stuff.
For instance,
1. The name "Lucifer" is Greek translation of a Hebrew term that only appears once, in Isaiah, and refers to an earthly king. of Babylon.
2. The serpent in the garden of Eden is not explicitly identified with Satan, such an identification is due to a verse in Revelation referring to Satan as "that serpent of old".
3. Satan's appearance in the book of Job seems to indicate Satan is still allowed into heaven and it seems more like he is a servant of God who tests people's resolve, rather than tries to lead them astray as its own end.

Revelation on the whole seems to be the main establishment that Satan is a specific entity who fought with God, was cast out, is now trying to corrupt the earth and bring about Armageddon.

So that's just observation purely from the text of the standardized protestant bible. Stuff like... concepts from theologians, popular folklore, Jewish views on the originally hebrew scriptures, and more... all inevitably vary.

As far as I'm concerned, Christians who support the idea of using fear tactics, or using government to proselytize, are Satan's emissaries. Making abortion or gay marriage illegal takes away people's ability to choose for themselves; things like that make God's will the law of the land, punishable if it's not obeyed. Who's plan does that sound like? Not Christ's. Especially with things that affect nobody else but those who choose to do those things. Just my personal opinion and something I've always felt was wrong about advertisements like that and in particular laws and government being used to strong arm people into a faith they don't support.
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My theory: it's not really about Christianity, it's about maintaining the values of their culture, of which Christianity is only a partial foundation. This due to the fact that Christianity became a dominant force, and as people are wont to do, they started wanting to protect that dominance.

Which is why they ignore many parts of scripture, their supposed sole source for truth and moral guidance, which would suggest a different course of action.
 
I grew up in that faith, although not a member now, so I erroneously assumed that was a story everyone had. ^^; I didn't realize it was LDS specific.
 
Yeah, I've not heard that version of things, Quin. ^^;

I was raised as a baptist, I'm a non-denominational christian now. Felt that was right a long time ago.

I don't go to church and don't really advertise that I AM a christian. I don't really care what everyone else believes because it doesn't affect me in any way shape or form but I have to agree, I dislike that some do the "Scare Tactic" sort of thing. It bothers me. Especially when they try saying the person will go to hell.

Really not our call to make. We have 0 call about who will and will not end up in heaven. Thats for God to know and us to find out when we die. Not to mention trying to force the belief just defeats the whole purpose of it. Its up to each individual to choose for themselves if they believe in/love God. You can't force that and you shouldn't, if you try through fear, its still just fear. Fear is fear and will never be honest love/belief.

I don't really get involved in "religious" stuff because people get too uptight about it. One thing that has ALWAYS bothered me is when people talk about all the bad things in the world and blame God for it, they seem to forget that the devil is a thing and he wants to corrupt/destroy us, he hates us. All that bad stuff is his influence. What I ALSO dislike is how much I personally have to deal with every fucking time I DO say I'm a non-denom christian. Its ridiculous. I get freaking trampled by people and they do nothing but insult both my faith and myself. I think both sides need to chill and back the fuck off its no ones business what you decide to believe and follow. Anyone who decides it IS their business needs to have their face smashed into a brick wall.

I also dislike when people try to act like they know what happens. This goes for religious and non-religious people alike. The biggest thing I've always heard is "There isn't any proof" in regards to heaven and all that jazz but THEY don't have any proof themselves about what happens after we die.

Religious and non religious, we have no fucking clue what happens once someone dies. Religious people believe something happens to you when you die [Reincarnations, Heaven, hell etc etc] and that is FAITH. I believe when a person dies they go to Heaven or Hell. They don't stay here. We believe what we believe because of our faith, our beliefs. Non religious think nothing happens at all but they don't know either. None of us do and none of us ever will until its our time to die.

I know there are always exceptions to everything but I tend to prefer to generalize instead of trying to count for every little tiny fucking exception <<;.

Also turned out a little longer than I intended and probably seems messy and disorganized. I apologize, I'm no good at conveying things clearly.

Seriously though.....why haven't I gotten these ads? I legitimately thought that there were no other ads besides sexual ones.

Though....on a point with this...
Whats wrong with have religious ads on this site? There are sexual themes in a lot of the stories but in the end this is a writing site, not a porn site or a site for the occult or anything like that. My two cents on it.
 
Tesora said:
I know the site has no control over the ads that are shown, but this is a site with demon's raping angels and demons keeping human slaves, and all other manners of sin and depravity and we're getting ads that say repent or die in hell. The irony is strong in this one lol
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I do, actually, have pretty fine-grained control over what ads to show. Feel free to let me know if one of them is particularly bad. I try to keep the raunchier stuff at bay, and have let a few more persistent advertisers know this.

This one showed up because ad rates fell to nearly 0 for about a day last week, so his penny bought him 3,000 impressions and 9 clicks. Pretty good return for his penny, I must say.

I mean, all nine of you who clicked are totally going to reject your life of sin and turn to Jesus, right?
 
Vekseid said:
Tesora said:
I know the site has no control over the ads that are shown, but this is a site with demon's raping angels and demons keeping human slaves, and all other manners of sin and depravity and we're getting ads that say repent or die in hell. The irony is strong in this one lol
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I do, actually, have pretty fine-grained control over what ads to show. Feel free to let me know if one of them is particularly bad. I try to keep the raunchier stuff at bay, and have let a few more persistent advertisers know this.

This one showed up because ad rates fell to nearly 0 for about a day last week, so his penny bought him 3,000 impressions and 9 clicks. Pretty good return for his penny, I must say.

I mean, all nine of you who clicked are totally going to reject your life of sin and turn to Jesus, right?
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Oh totally :p
 
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