I had an admin warn this. I don't want to see stuff like this on the BBS again from *anyone,* as it is highly offensive to several different religions.
I don't care what anyone thinks of religion; that's their own business, but if you have something against it, phrase it much more diplomatically. MUCH more diplomatically.
In this case, the whole post was unnecessary. Just don't do it again. Thank you.
Just as Caesar was a Roman who is now dead,
Jesus was an ethnic Jew (Hebrew) who is now dead. Many people believe otherwise, but many people also believe that the Earth is six millennia old, flat, or hollow—often as a religious article of faith. Would you expect me to be diplomatic in saying that Earth is eons old, roughly round, and solid? Would I receive a warning for saying the young, flat, and hollow Earth models are absolute nonsense as a matter of objective reality rather than personal opinion, or that believing Methuselah lived for nearly a millennium or that Muhammad flew to Heaven on a winged horse is ignorant?
In Christian mythology, Jesus died and returned to life, making him undead (like an intelligent vampire rather than a dumb zombie), and he invisibly observes all human activity and could intervene at any moment but generally chooses not to. They also believe that anything (with
one or
two exceptions, depending on who you ask) can be forgiven during the course of earthly life. Taking Vic Mignogna at his word about believing this and his accusers at their word about being sexually assaulted by him means that he believes Jesus observed him commit these assaults, chose not to intervene, and won't punish Vic no matter how many times he may reoffend so long as he continues to sincerely repent and believe.
Any and all posts on this forum for discussion of a fictional universe could be dismissed as unnecessary, but I mentioned this because I think Mignogna's belief system could partly explain his pattern of behavior. I base this view on knowing many and
knowing of many more people who adhere to the same belief system he professes and who repeatedly engage in similar behavior. Rather than a mere jab, this belief does exist and is used to justify or excuse all manner of repeated negative behavior, including child abuse, sexual assault, financial fraud, and environmental devastation.
Rephrased:
Perhaps he excuses this behavior through his professed belief that his god (who originated as a subordinate deity in an obscure and extinct polytheistic desert religion according to historical and archaeological consensus) could prevent him from doing it but chooses to silently and invisibly observe and then forgive his actions, repeatedly and unconditionally, as per his god's traditionally purported policies of noninterference and unconditional forgiveness (although even his fellow believers turned on him for allegedly not taking his professed belief seriously enough).
