Religious faith versus Non-conformist faith and the Sims 2
vickylougrl:
By faith I am I suppose what you would consider Christian gnostic. Religion of all types fascinate me. I like seeing realism in my sim stories and that includes sometimes religion whatever belief system that might be.
Yes it's a game but it's also a place of our imagination or fantasy and in my mind faith and beliefs can play into that.
Allasyra:
Very informative--Thank you!
Your post makes me interested in learning more about Wicca! :)
heartless:
I could never get into putting objects that related to any religion that was close to my former one (typical modern-day Christianity) in my game. Stuff related to, say, Islam or Taosim or Wicca, that was okay, because it is all so exotic and fascinating to me. And the religion I was following was stressing me out, because I was constantly afraid of an afterlife of pain.
I don't really follow an organized religion anymore, and for the first time in my life I feel calm and unafraid. I just feel like many of the ones that say there is a God might have it wrong. The Bible contains several parts that, while they might not have been contradictions in the first few manuscripts of it, have been translated a million times and have turned into seeming contradictions, or perhaps the explanatory parts were left out.
I believe there is good and evil in this world, and want to know the truth about everything. But it's hard when so many religions scream "Pick me or have dire consequences!" How could I decide which one sounded the most logical, and which ones i could ignore that had the least awful afterlife option if they turned out to be wrong, you know?
On a side note, I think an Islam expansion kit would be kind of awesome if it included the fashions and architecture and deco associated with heavily Muslin regions. :)
DraculaBiscuits:
Strangely enough i found this thread while doing a search on goth lol. Well anyway, I was raised a Baptist Christian, but through my teen years i started to feel disconnected from the religion,it wasnt until i was 18 that i began to explore things more, via the internet, a gothic online community, i discovered topics of the occult,i was curious, but i wasnt ready to leave Christianity behind, at that point i thought i had no choice but to stay with it. When i was 20 years old, i was going through a hard time and i felt maybe it was time to read up on other spiritual beliefs, so i did, thats when i found Wicca, After alot of reading one day, i felt this connection form, in my mind all i could say was wow, i cant believe i didnt find this sooner. Months later, after much reading , and talking with elder Wiccans, i knew dedicating myself to this path was what i wanted and needed. Im 23 now and still a Wiccan. I consider myself a very spiritual person, and i believe in treating others how i want to be treated. There is no summoning of demons and such, that would be stupid and dangerous.my rituals and prayers consist of honoring God and Goddess, celebrating the holidays, and meditation when i need to clear my head. I an not anti christ or anti christian, i have read the bible, after all for the most part of my life i was christian. I believe the for the most part that the teaching of christ are good. Christianity just isnt for me, i have spend many years of my life following that faith, so i would know by now. I cant understand why so many people can bee filled with so much hate towards other people because of their beliefs or lifestyle choices. Their is no reason why everyone cant live in peace and be accepted. About sims 2:I dont have Apartment life , but i have seen plenty of previews and photos, and it seems like alot of fun, the witches look fun, i dont take them to be offensive because they are fantasy images, and portray no likeness to real witches, nor are they suppose to be like real witches, so no big deal. I think the people making big deals over it, seriously need to get a life, this is a game, a normal person knows the difference between a game and reality.
Keep an open mind and an open heart.
Blessed Be
shc:
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And CJ, Thats why I think she's a hypocrite, She told me that wiccans worship the earth and that like the animals, no one has the same mate. I just believe what she said because he bought it. But you could see its killing him. I really know absolulely nothing about wiccans,I just saw the pain someone used to cause pain with it and made my opinion based on that. But man, I've definitely learned some here about it . I would tell him but she's got him brained washed. Someday his eyes will open and maybe he will take a walk.
Unfortunatly there are people from all faiths that have twisted concepts from their religion to better suit thier own agendas. I have known so-called devout christian men that dominate and terrorise their wives because they have interpreted the line 'love, honour and obey' to mean they had full power and control over them (and god damn the woman who forgot her place).
Funnily enough I once had a boyfriend who was convinced that I was going to cheat on him because I am a wiccan because his ex-girlfiend who was also a wiccan had cheated on him. Several police involved domestic disputes later I finally broke up with the paranoid jerk. Funnily enough I have never cheated on a partner ever in my life.
Your friend's 'wiccan' wife I shall put it bluntly is an idiot as well as a 'wanton woman'(trying not to say the S word here). Anyone who have even a rough knowledge of animals would know that there are quite a few species who 'mate for life' and there is even some who wouldn't even take another mate once that mate had died such is thier devotion.
I have learnt over time not to judge a person based on thier religion. My brother-in-law is muslim and although many people view this religion as degrading to women my in-law has shown me some beautiful passages from the Quran which shows the high esteem Mohummad had for women, partcularly his youngest daughter. And from my own research on religions in general I have come to understand that alot of the reforms Mohummad made for women which may seem overly restrictive in todays world were actually quite shockingly liberal during Mohummad's time (we should not forget that it was not all that long ago in our own society that a woman wouldn't dare go out in public without hat and gloves to 'cover' themselves). I don't think christianity had given women as many rights as Islam did although the Western world would like to think we did, truth is western women had to fight very hard for every right we possess now. I remember as a kid in the early '90's seeing on the news about the government trying to decide whether or not to abolish a law allowing men to rape thier wives, so you see we in the west are only relativly new at this as well.
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