{"id":117,"date":"2010-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fearofwhales\/2010\/09\/they-re-making-christian-wow.html"},"modified":"2011-05-16T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:26:37","slug":"they-re-making-christian-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/2010\/09\/they-re-making-christian-wow.html","title":{"rendered":"They &#8216; re Making Christian WOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright at-xid-6a014e87f1cb84970d01538dfeae3b970b\" src=\"https:\/\/fearofwhales.typepad.com\/.a\/6a014e87f1cb84970d01538dfeae3b970b-pi\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"198\" \/><\/div>\n<p>World of Warcraft (WOW) is a massive online game made by blizzard entertainment. It has absolutely revolutionized the genre of Online RPG gaming and perhaps gaming itself. So much so that we Christians decided we needed to get in on the action by creating one of our own!<\/p>\n<p>Yes you heard right. WOW is fun, safe, and not explicitly Christian, and that just won\u2019t do! \u201cThe Bible Online: Heroes\u201d however will finally provide Christian nerds with an MMORPG that they can play without having to learn to relate with to all of those pesky\u2026normal nerds.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only person who is really offended by this?<br \/>\nI feel like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">First they came for our secular books, I stayed silent, because it happened 100 years before I was born,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And then  they came for our secular music, and I stayed silent because when I  tried to say anything people just told me that I \u201cdon\u2019t get it\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Then they came for our secular clothing, and that one really kinda ticked me off but it was like, what was I going to do? Endorse the regular clothing industry?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They\u2019ve come for our bumper stickers, and Our coffee shops and out breath mints (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.testamints.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">seriously<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And Now they&#8217;re here for our awesome computer games that don&#8217;t take place in bible times and I fear it&#8217;s too late<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not okay people!<br \/>\nIt was never okay. The entire dichotomy, the whole separation of the sacred and the secular is heresy!<br \/>\nI\u2019m not using sensational language either. The book of Colossians was written to combat the heretical notion of the Gnostics that there was the material, and the spiritual realm, and the Material was bad, while the spiritual was good. The bible says no, Jesus was both, deal with it!<br \/>\nI really do think that\u2019s the problem. I think we have Christians walking around today who are really Gnostics.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft at-xid-6a014e87f1cb84970d01538dfeae4f970b\" src=\"https:\/\/fearofwhales.typepad.com\/.a\/6a014e87f1cb84970d01538dfeae4f970b-pi\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"234\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Wikipedia defines Gnostics as believing in \u201cesoteric knowledge through which the spiritual elements of humanity are reminded of their true origins within the superior Godhead, being thus permitted to escape materiality\u201d In other words they think they\u2019re better off because they know something the rest of us don\u2019t. And this knowledge of theirs is going to help their spirits fly away from everybody who doesn\u2019t believe forever.<\/p>\n<p>Does that sound like what you believe?<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s in direct opposition to the teachings of Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft (WOW) is a massive online game made by blizzard entertainment. It has absolutely revolutionized the genre of Online RPG gaming and perhaps gaming itself. So much so that we Christians decided we needed to get in on the action by creating one of our own! Yes you heard right. 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