Thread:Curious Poker Chip/@comment-24200891-20190813120236/@comment-1650307-20190909062230

Official reply! Sickness and recent controversy have thrown me for a loop. Also already tried once before to write this but it screwed up.

The thing I see it is that maybe there is more to the Chris Savino situation that meets the eye. I sure don't know him so I cannot say for certain, and maybe I am just naturally optimistic and a little naive but I think that most people are good. Let's put this as an example. King David in the Bible once coveted over another man's wife so much that he ordered the man to be sent to the front lines in battle so he would die, and then once he did die, he fornicated with the wife, committing two agregious sins in the process. No doubt if this happened to somebody in this modern age, surely no one would ever forgive him. But because David was truly truly repentant and sorry for what he did, God forgave him. That always blows my mind no matter how much I hear about it. Because he was truly sorry for what he did, God forgave him. So who knows? Maybe Chris is truly sorry for what he did, I don't know. Maybe he is a changed man. Maybe he took advantage of human being's nature to sin and fall short and while he is paying the price, he still feels regret that he did it.

Yeah it gets harder with each passing day to maintain your relationship with God. I know how that feels. I too experience some amount of doubt myself. I don't know if this will help you out, but I feel like I should give you my two cents worth on these issues. I personally don't believe that Hell is a real place. I think this because why would a loving God create a place of eternal anguish and pain? I also have a slight issue with the Heaven prospect. Like I know that it's supposed to be a comforting thing but I once thought like if you died first in your family, you would have to wait a long time (possibly 50+ years) for them to kick the bucket. I mean I know there are billions of souls in heaven supposedly, but at least for me if I died and went there, eventually I would want to see my family and friends who are still on the Earth and I wouldn't be allowed to until they die. Also it says in the Bible that "the wages sin pays is death". This means that when we die, our sins are forgiven.

Although I am a huge fan of The Simpsons, one of my least favourite parts of it is its mocking of Christianity in many episodes. Even so, I don't personally believe that the show is "anti-Christian" mostly because of how they portray Ned Flanders. If the writers/Matt Groening really had a beef with the religion, I think they would more portray him as the other Christian stereotype. The kind of guy who shoves religion down people's throats and says stuff like "if you don't believe what I believe, you are going to Hell" and just being an all-around terrible dude. But because they portrayed him as an extremely nice, meek man, then I don't really believe there is any malice on the parts of the writers. Family Guy on the other hand, that show I firmly believe is anti-Christian based on two things I saw. One comes from an episode where Brian and Stewie go to alternate universes and one universe is a "world without Christianity" which portrays people in harmony and unity, singing and dancing without any war or hatred. Another episode near the end basically says that Brian (the dog) thinks that God doesn't exist because Meg (the daughter) is "ugly" and Lois (the mom) is "beautiful" (I use those terms in huge sarcasm quotes). There's also the fact that Seth MacFarlane is a huge gung-ho unabashed atheist, which doesn't help matters.

I agree there. While I think there is nothing ethically wrong with religion since I think we are naturally curious about ethical questions of who we are and where we came from, I think that there is something wrong with organized religion. I don't want to get into specifics, but oftentimes these religions don't practice what they preach.

Fair enough. For me, what tipped me off about Miguel is his flamboyant voice and personality. He could be just metrosexual or something but I kinda doubt it. Anyways, I don't think they will flat out say he is gay for a while because they just announced another character is LGBT and it would be too soon. I also think that they are kinda pushing it with the LGBT minority and I think it would be cool if they focused on some other minorities for a change. I think it would be awesome if they had a character on the show with cancer, for example.

I liked "A Grave Mistake". Lucy episodes are fairly consistent and I really like Haiku as a character so it was always great to see her. But since I only really saw the episode once, I will see how well it holds to repeated viewings. Keep in mind that I originally liked "The Waiting Game" but now I despise it! "Leader of the Rack" was just wonderful and I really love what they have been recently doing with these Leni episodes. The writers do a great job of making Leni relatable without sacrificing her easy likeability.