Intergalactic Summit

You know, rabid foaming in-your-face Atheism is still a form of prostelyzation (sp?) yeah?

Stop being a religious zealot.

Wait. No.

Maybe a dual rep Wolf with capacitor injector.

But then you can't get tackle on God if you have an afterburner.

Preach in private or in such public venues where your fairy tales are asked for and appreciated. You can hardly blame those of us who don't wish to be subjected to this kind of drivel for lashing out. We didn't ask to be evangelized, patronized or insulted. In summary; if you wish to be respected, you must also be respectful of others.

Insulting the very people you're attempting to curry favor with is not only poor salesmanship, it's also just plain dumb.

I am unsure, Miss Rella, if you are attempting to disagree with me and failing, or agreeing with me and being unclear about it: you've more or less restated my point, albeit with different wording.

I am not much of a sermon-giver. I never have been - dear Merram was so much better at it than I, and he enjoyed doing it while he was still with us. I partake in the activity a few times a year in my holdings for holidays, where it is an expected duty. Otherwise, I normally have people on hand for whom it is their job.

If I had to preach to an assembled host of people who were not of the faith, and the goal was conversion, this is the last place I would ever do such a thing, closely followed by a Neocom-accessible channel such as the Summit. A private - or semi-private - venue would be much preferred, given it would actually allow me to perform the task given to me.

This is a terrible place to do so, because of the people whose ears the message reaches, and of the people whose hearts and minds resonate with the ideals of the Faith, the vast majority of them would never step up on this forum and say so for fear of ridicule and other poor treatment.

On the other hand, those who would behave like disruptive little schoolchildren are all too common, and drown out the message of the one giving it - whether you or anyone else consider the message well-intentioned or not.


To Mr. Ixiris:

Shaman Siikanen has a very good point: you yourself are proselytizing. And doing so in an extremely rude, insulting and arrogant fashion.

How ironic.

The passion of my disbelief is as strong as the passion of your belief, with one added benefit - it's vastly more likely to be true.

Youre doing it again.

Well this thread has amused me entirely too much.

It's a sermon. They sometimes last over an hour. If anything, he's drastically curtailed it for this venue.

The majority of speech you hear on the IGS is automatically translated. While these programs are sophisticated, I find complex sentences or unusual turns of speech often sound a touch off.

I respect your opinion as a leader of the TMC media organization.

However, consider that a sermon and a TMC article may have very different measures of success. A sermon that comparatively few read to the end, but of those that do, they are terrorized to the core with the Wrath and Judgement of God is to be considered a roaring success. Other times, the effect of a sermon is not immediate; rather, a seed is planted that will someday grow into true faith in God and service to his holy instrument in the world, the Amarr Empire.

I'm with you on that... Popcorn?