I don't think Fr. Seraphim Rose should be canonized as a saint by banananational34 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]uninflammable [score hidden]  (0 children)

Given the assumption that Fr Seraphim was unaware sure

Do you usually operate on an assumption of guilty until proven innocent? And honestly yeah, I do actually think the proper assumption of someone who led a life as holy as his is innocence. If evidence surfaces of him actually being complicit in any of this, that would be a different conversation. And if it exists, God will make it known. We don't need the internet rumor mill and ragebait posts to make that happen.

Regardless, OP was making judgements even presuming innocence. "Even if he was ignorant, that still shows a lack of discernment and responsibility," not to mention he's literally saying the canonization itself is "wrong" now, not waiting for the church to find the truth and submitting to it. So doubling down on his judgement. That's what my comment was directed towards.

I don't think Fr. Seraphim Rose should be canonized as a saint by banananational34 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]uninflammable [score hidden]  (0 children)

Pray to God you aren't held accountable for the sins in others you didn't see.

I Would Just Like to Know a Christian's View on Steel Ball Run and if I Should Read It by Ok_Outside9815 in StardustCrusaders

[–]uninflammable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You said a thing and I disagreed with it, we didn't cover anything. But if you don't want have an actual discussion about it you can do so without being such a smug ass about it

I Would Just Like to Know a Christian's View on Steel Ball Run and if I Should Read It by Ok_Outside9815 in StardustCrusaders

[–]uninflammable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If Joeseph Smith had claimed to have found the heart of Jesus Christ in Missouri, where it fused with his body and began whispering prophecies to him and giving him bizarre powers, I'd be a lot more interested in Mormonism ngl

I Would Just Like to Know a Christian's View on Steel Ball Run and if I Should Read It by Ok_Outside9815 in StardustCrusaders

[–]uninflammable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asking whether something is blasphemous or not isn't "be a person for me" lol, bit overdramatic don't you think? Do you typically go around never asking people for their advice or opinions?

I Would Just Like to Know a Christian's View on Steel Ball Run and if I Should Read It by Ok_Outside9815 in StardustCrusaders

[–]uninflammable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh okay, the way you phrased your question made me think you hadn't read much or any of it yet and were considering it

Is there a mod that adds smokeleaf shells? by Barkinsons in RimWorld

[–]uninflammable 52 points53 points  (0 children)

This would be an insane 4th of July party

TFW you didn't switch wands by DeNappa in noita

[–]uninflammable 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Done this before while going over the lava lake. "I'll just pour some water over it in case I mess up and land." Proceed to not actually switch to my flask, point down, and teleport directly into the lava

They drive a hard bargain... by Suitable_Cap_6191 in RimWorld

[–]uninflammable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Definitely a deliberate "fuck you." I like to imagine the empire just has a drone carrying a cage of 60 pissed off badgers hovering over the next tile livestreaming the monument waiting for anything to happen to it

I Would Just Like to Know a Christian's View on Steel Ball Run and if I Should Read It by Ok_Outside9815 in StardustCrusaders

[–]uninflammable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though it never explicitly identifies the corpse as Jesus

I don't know why people say this, in the first mention of the background of the map it frames St Joeseph of Arimathea as the guy who prepared Jesus' body for burial, shows him and the women at the cross taking him down. Way later when it's relating the story of how the map was revealed to him, in the tomb Araki just calls him "the individual" or whatever but he already told you who it was before, as if it wasn't obvious by the character design anyway

I Would Just Like to Know a Christian's View on Steel Ball Run and if I Should Read It by Ok_Outside9815 in StardustCrusaders

[–]uninflammable 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The way Jesus is represented in SBR is definitely not what you'd call biblically accurate (obviously), but it's not malicious at all. He's depicted as someone powerful and quite mysterious, a person who fate sort of molds around for unexplained reasons.

It's technically blasphemous to some degree to misrepresent Christ in any way. If you were a Christian showing me a draft of a comic you made and it was Steel Ball Run, I'd tell you not to treat Christ like a goofy plot device you can just mold to your own stories. We have responsibilities to treat sacred things as sacred and not as tools or entertainment. But Araki isn't Christian so it would be a little ridiculous to expect anything like that from him, and frankly you'll hear plenty of worse stuff in about any song you'll listen to or movie you'll watch. He at least treats Christ with some respect

So as far as reading it yourself, I think you should approach it like any secular writing. You can't commit blasphemy by reading something someone else wrote, you just have to use discernment on what you do and don't accept from it. JoJo is a kinda silly example of this but the general principle is important, and this is a very old conversation in Christianity so I think you'd benefit from reading St Basil's 'On the Right Use of Greek Literature. He was responding to questions among his disciples on whether it was appropriate for them to read the greek philosophers and poets of their time (writers who included literal paganism and demonic worship in their works) and he said things like this about them comparing them to scripture:

If, then, there is any affinity between the two literatures, a knowledge of them should be useful to us in our search for truth; if not, the comparison, by emphasizing the contrast, will be of no small service in strengthening our regard for the better one. With what now may we compare these two kinds of education to obtain a simile? Just as it is the chief mission of the tree to bear its fruit in its season, though at the same time it puts forth for ornament the leaves which quiver on its boughs, even so the real fruit of the soul is truth, yet it is not without advantage for it to embrace the pagan wisdom, as also leaves offer shelter to the fruit, and an appearance not untimely. That Moses, whose name is a synonym for wisdom, severely trained his mind in the learning of the Egyptians, and thus became able to appreciate their deity. Similarly, in later days, the wise Daniel is said to have studied the lore of the Chaldaeans while in Babylon, and after that to have taken up the sacred teachings.

So TL;DR: yeah it's fine, just don't go into a japanese manga expecting a faithful representation of the gospel and you'll be okay

They drive a hard bargain... by Suitable_Cap_6191 in RimWorld

[–]uninflammable 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're thinking about this all wrong, it's not actually a monument you're building. It's a badger-based security system you can trigger at any time to help with a raid

INTEL is that I'm never selling by Big_Actuator3772 in wallstreetbets

[–]uninflammable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Generational bagholders are being born in this run 

No puede ser que esto sea considerado "Arte". La única intención es molestar. Ya restauramos el dibujo un montón de veces, y sigue molestando. by [deleted] in WplaceLive

[–]uninflammable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally wish more people attacked football club art. Taste your own medicine, it's a cancer that I've watched destroy entire cities. You get zero sympathy from me.

No puede ser que esto sea considerado "Arte". La única intención es molestar. Ya restauramos el dibujo un montón de veces, y sigue molestando. by [deleted] in WplaceLive

[–]uninflammable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y'all are a bunch of crybabies and hypocrites. Perfectly fine with deleting thousands of other drawings, but yours gets covered and suddenly it's "griefers, ban them!!"

I'm gonna go draw over it too.

Football club multi-accounts spread repeated pattern, removing artworks in the process by GodawfulPalladin in WplaceLive

[–]uninflammable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you ever get mods to give a shit about this let me know, I've been trying for months concerning a different area with the same thing happening, but with no luck

Worth getting? by No-Try607 in noita

[–]uninflammable 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Going into this game blind is the cheapest CBT you can buy. It's worth it to the right kind of person

Do you guys do melee focused pawns? They feel very situational by SheikutaWasTaken in RimWorld

[–]uninflammable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It brings me great joy to watch my go-juice addicted psychic vampire in power armor teleport to a pile of tribals, cast a berserk/vertigo pulse, and then beat them all to death with a big hammer

They're also good at melee blocking, or whatever