Postby Gypsy » Tue May 04, 2004 9:23 am
Yeah, I understand what people mean - I found myself getting heartaches every time I'd venture out of the art arena into the message board. Heartaches and anger - because many of the Christians on those boards were doing more harm to their (and our) testimony than good. There were so many deceived people who thought they understood what Christianity was all about. I think every time I would attempt to witness, an obnoxious Christian (very tempted to put that word in quotation marks) would jump on and condemn everyone to hell, or I'd get called vulgar variants of reproductive organs with a few R-rated adjectives thrown in just for fun. Sometimes I wonder if people really understand that there's a human being on the other side of the text boxes, because I highly, highly doubt most of those people would talk like that to a stranger's face.
But that's why I stayed off the message boards mostly. I would get so discouraged and weighed down with the perversion and new-age mindset. While I think that the majority of the members are immature pre-teens who are just flexing their horrible vocabulary, there were some people who were truly hurting there.
However, if lots of you are going to form a solid Christian guild, I'd be interested in joining. Maybe if we can get enough of a lump of us together, our sincerity might be heard above all the trash. I'd personally rather it not be associated with CAA, though. That would be the equivalent of inviting the trolls for tea.