"I think it is funny... people like having sex clubs and all that here, but you build a church and it is like you are the biggest jerk in the world." So says Rafin Grimm, who constructed the Catholic Church that I featured a few days ago. He has removed his church from SecondLife. Read the entire posting, The Sacred and Profane, which documents his experience.
Apparently having an effective Christian presence is as much of a challenge in the virtual world as it is in the real world.
I find it interesting sometimes that people who are so big on being tolerant of others, don't tolerate religion. Sometimes even just specific religions.
Some immediately mark this up to "work of the devil." I, however, sometimes think that maybe it's something else. Maybe it's their auto-response to what they percieve as harmful to them. If you get burned enough, most people learn to stop touching the stove. Some of the most segregated, biast, unforgiving people I have come across in my lifetime are those who profess to be christians. Maybe this is why people are against a church in 2nd Life.
Posted by: chalupa | November 08, 2006 at 12:01 AM