Ok, I wasn't there for whatever debate occurred in the chat room last night (although let me state for the record once again that I am not opposed to the discussion of *any* topic in the chat room, be it politics, religion, etc.), but at this point, I feel compelled to respond to the "flame war" that has developed (even though it's not a flame war in the strictest definition of the term . . . but oh well, not important). Tim is correct in his assertions that Christians -- and yes, Andy, "true" Christians too (I have yet to meet a Catholic, including Andy, who did not at some point try to convert me away from Protestantism) -- often have a problem with attempting to force their religion on society at large. From the proselyting of Jehovah's Witnesses to the desire of many to post the Ten Commandments in public schools, a large number of Christians are attempting to make this a nation based on Christianity. Ironically, these are the same people who protest the Taleban making Afghanistan an Islamic law nation, and so forth. To further the irony, most people these days seem to be worshipping a Christian church, and not the original beliefs of Christianity itself -- for example, last time I checked, there was a lot of stuff in the Bible about love and forgiveness; yet, churches today attempt to use the Bible to continue their patriarchal oppression of women and gays by only accepting sexist and heterosexist interpretations of the Bible. As for an anti-Christian bias in QB . . . whatever. Take any tournament and compare the number of questions on the Bible to the number of questions from any other religious text. If anything, there is a pro-Christianity bias in QB, but like someone (I think Anthony?) said, this probably stems from the pro-Western bias. At the same time, if Andy's original provocation was demanding of Tim "If I'm not allowed to sleep around before getting married, why are you?" -- I'm sorry, that was tasteless, inappropriate, and uncalled for. And I think it's especially disgusting to provoke someone by publically criticizing something as personal as their sex life, and then basically proclaim yourself a QB religious martyr when said person objects. Kristin
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