Damar, you're so close to being right. Close. But wrong.
Since you're already kind of perverting our whole goal and exaggerating examples (with Biblical backing, no less, ho ho ho), allow me to as well.
If you read the Old Testament, you will see that God often COMMANDED his people to go out and kill every single person AND animal of pagan enemies. And, uh, that was in real life, too. Notice, also, that as this was a justified war, God permitted it.
Now, lets fast-forward a bit. We Christians, God's people, are now going out and playing an fps, a shooting GAME. Game, meaning it's not real, like the Isrealites did in the past. Our enemies are often much the same - perhaps not pagans, but only because they hold no deity in their minds - athiests/agnostics. LOOK EVEN FURTHER and see that within this game between the two "rival" groups there are two MORE rival groups, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists. Let's even assume that the Terrorists are fighting for something like religious freedom! (After all, terrorists usually have a cause.) So now, as a counter-terrorist, we are fully justified by killing terrorists, our enemies, in a justified battle. OR, if we're terrorists, we're fighting for our religion against those who would opress us. I'd say this is pretty justified.
HOWEVER! We are not even playing, as we have stated, to go out and kill the idolators! Our goal is to bring others to Christ! So now we are engaged in a fully justified but also fully SIMULATED war, and we are even trying to make amends! Now, how can that be bad?
Since you're already kind of perverting our whole goal and exaggerating examples (with Biblical backing, no less, ho ho ho), allow me to as well.
If you read the Old Testament, you will see that God often COMMANDED his people to go out and kill every single person AND animal of pagan enemies. And, uh, that was in real life, too. Notice, also, that as this was a justified war, God permitted it.
Now, lets fast-forward a bit. We Christians, God's people, are now going out and playing an fps, a shooting GAME. Game, meaning it's not real, like the Isrealites did in the past. Our enemies are often much the same - perhaps not pagans, but only because they hold no deity in their minds - athiests/agnostics. LOOK EVEN FURTHER and see that within this game between the two "rival" groups there are two MORE rival groups, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists. Let's even assume that the Terrorists are fighting for something like religious freedom! (After all, terrorists usually have a cause.) So now, as a counter-terrorist, we are fully justified by killing terrorists, our enemies, in a justified battle. OR, if we're terrorists, we're fighting for our religion against those who would opress us. I'd say this is pretty justified.
HOWEVER! We are not even playing, as we have stated, to go out and kill the idolators! Our goal is to bring others to Christ! So now we are engaged in a fully justified but also fully SIMULATED war, and we are even trying to make amends! Now, how can that be bad?
Interesting way to spell it though, nice alternative. Maybe that's my Dark Elven name or something, heeh.
