If you are a Browncoat and a Christian....sound-off....NO AGENDA...just curious.

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MALACHITE

Friday, August 11, 2006 2:47 PM

Yep, I'm both Christian and a Browncoat. Someone on this thread brought in some quotes that seemed to imply that one couldn't (or shouldn't) be a Whedon fan and a Christian at the same time. Will it cause too much scandal if I add that I also love the Harry Potter series, too?

Only one thing's going to get you through this. Belief...

RUGBUG

Friday, August 11, 2006 6:08 PM

Thought I ought to sound off here as I've been making my beliefs pretty well known over in RWE.

Christian and Browncoat as well as Whedonite.

Malachite: My mom certainly thinks I shouldn't like Harry Potter...or Buffy. I just shrug my shoulders and say that's her opinion.

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STARFIGHTER66

Friday, August 11, 2006 6:25 PM

I am catholic and love firefly, I think that the one thing see in firefly is that there is a convergence of religions and that one thing i notice is that while there is violence there is no one fighting over religion. to me religion is a good thing whatever it is that you believe as long as you believe and as long as what you believe hurts no one then it it is a good religion.

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STILLSHINY

Friday, August 11, 2006 7:44 PM

Browncoats is my kinda people!

Christian Browncoat right here.

I know I did this yesterday, but I get to do it again today!

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AGENTRUSCO

Friday, August 11, 2006 8:52 PM

Didn't really feel the need to read this whole thread, but I'll sound off just the same.

As to the content of some of Joss' stuff, I agree that some Christians certainly find it offensive and blastphemous and whatnot. My past roommate is one of these. I however, tend to revel in the storytelling more than the story (in this, I rever to Buffy and Angel) As a writer and lover of sci/fi and fantasy, I can appreciate the creativity and the characterizations.

Anyhow, I feel one of the main purposes of humans is to revel in creativity and draw life lessons from it. That could be kinda a bit off, but I for one will always love Joss' stuff.

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CITIZEN

Friday, August 11, 2006 9:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
No agenda implied. I am neither as intelligent as Citizen nor as combative as, well, Citizen.

Erm thanks I think. Sorry if I brought down the tone at all, just Dukkati irked me with the bs.

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CHRISMOORHEAD

Friday, August 11, 2006 11:15 PM

Devout Christian, through and through. I've made lifelong religious vows to abstain from alcohol, sex, smoking and psycho-reactive drugs. As it is, I really need to work on not cussing so much.

Anyways, I've tooted my own horn enough. On the subject of our youth being steered towards the occult due to certain pop-culture phenomenon like Buffy, Charmed and so on, I believe that to be totally true. A simple fact is that the more exposure something has, the greater it influences people. Those most easily influenced are people who're confused and unsure about... well, everything. We call them teenagers.

That said, this is not necessarily a negative thing in my mind. I have my own opinions about the occult and those who subscribe to it (negative ones mostly), but part of my Christian belief is that God created man to be free and to decide things for himself. To attempt and tell other people that they're "wrong" is fundamentally un-Christian in my opinion, and to tell them that they're going to hell doubly so since it assumes that we, being wretched sinners ourselves, are somehow divine enough to pass judgment on anyone.

Conversely, I also get very tired of anti-Christianism. Being an able bodied white conservative-Christian male of Anglo-Saxon decent, I am pretty much the antithesis of what would be defined as a "minority". Although I've never once owned a slave, sexually harassed or degraded a woman, killed a pagan or teased the handicapped, I can't seem to find enough people who will hate me for being "at the top". Specifically on the subject of religion, I find it appalling how many people seem to take pleasure in displaying Darwin fishes pissing on Jesus fishes, displaying inverted crosses and more. Although it's certainly your right to do so and I don't believe it should be otherwise, I don't go out of my way to desecrate any sort of paganism, out of respect for other people's beliefs.

Short version: Anyone who targets large scale religion as a particular source of any problem is only helping to add to the division. Furthermore, man has held many more and much larger wars for the sake of wealth, power and land, and I think it can generally be surmised that if any or all of these things ceased to exist, man would find something else to war over instead. It is our nature: to seek greater gain.

STILLSHINY

Friday, August 11, 2006 11:35 PM

N O A G E N D A. please.

Everyone's entitled to opinions.....this just isn't the place to give them. Please.

Celebrate your Christian faith.
Celebrate your Brown coat.
Keep it Simple.

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STILLSHINY

Friday, August 11, 2006 11:35 PM

N O A G E N D A. please.

Everyone's entitled to opinions.....this just isn't the place to give them. Please.

Celebrate your Christian faith.
Celebrate your Brown coat.
Keep it Simple.

"We had ties that could not be broken, except by the passing of time. Like a rock. A broken time rock. And you're very special to me, my broken time rock people." - Nathan Fillion

Stillshiny's Shop - Original creator of the -isms series
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DOUBLE POST......But I think I'll leave it there.

TRAVELER

Saturday, August 12, 2006 7:07 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Stillshiny:
N O A G E N D A. please.

Stillshiny:

Good thread. I'm not a Christian. But I have Christian friends and I guess that says a lot about how we can get along if we respect each other.

I know it is hard to discuss such a topic without Agenda creeping in. It happens to the best of us.

It is like asking me to post with just two sentences. Nearly impossible.

But I wanted to give you a bump so others will get a chance to see / read this.

Again, fine work;
Traveler

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