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...because the Bible is treated more like a textbook than a guidebook for living.

I can't agree that's a bad thing.

So you think being overly legalistic is good?

No, they'd be taking the homeless in because they act like Jesus wants them to. Forcing something down their throats in return is the opposite.

Telling someone that the only way to be saved is through Jesus isn't 'forcing it down their throat', it's telling them that they need forgiveness for their sins. Opening up a church and letting them in is great, but that doesn't grant them salvation.

Wow... this is getting as off-topic as.........

Except longer, and with more topics. This is, hands down, the most interesting thread I've ever seen.

Emm... Yeah. Whatever. I think there already is a GK discussion thread. Wait...


What did I tell you?


Post in that thread if you want to talk about GK.

Hilariously, I'm top of the year in RE. Apparently, believing in god can seriously impair your ability to... know anything about god. Being in Northern Ireland, religion is usually a big thing. I'm happy to be able to say that I went to a Protestant primary school, currently go to a Catholic grammar school, and feel nothing. It also makes me all nice and cross-community.

Most kids in a Christian school are turned off from hearing about God because the Bible is treated more like a textbook than a guidebook for living.

Jess and I have a common desire that churches [when not being used for mass prayer] should be houses for the homeless. You've got this huge building that pays no taxes just sitting there being useless most of the day why not open the doors and let homeless people stay in each and every one of them! I think churches in NYC go so far as allowing homeless people to sleep on their steps.

That's true, but the churches should also be ministering to the homeless. It seems like churches nowadays are scared to tell anyone about Christ for fear of offending someone. Yet..

If more Christians spent time in helping the needy and being compassionate instead of judgemental, I would feel a little different.

A lot of Christians are hypocrites, especially concerning music. They feel that if a band doesn't mention God in every song then it's bad to listen to. Or if it's not a 'CCM' or a 'Christian' band, then it's bad. That's really, really, hypocritical. What's wrong with jazz music? Half of the songs don't even have vocals in them! And the 'Christian' music scene looks just like the secular one. If I didn't know a band was 'Christian' (so called, at least), then I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. For example:
P.O.D. (A 'Christian' group)

Rage Against The Machine (secular group)

God judges people on their actions, but actions aren't what's going to get you into heaven. Salvation is sort of like the cake, and good actions are like the icing, etc. Once God redeems you, you can't be 'unsaved'. Sure, you can distance yourself from God, maybe even turn your back on Him (like Raggit and a few others have), but eventually God will probably. I had an uncle who passed away about 4 years ago, who was brought up as a Christian, going to church, etc. but after his childhood didn't really follow any of that. In his 70s, he found out that he had lung cancer (from smoking too much). His wife was a nominal Christian, and she got him to talk to a minister. Over the next few years, he'd talk on a regular basis with the minister, and soon after that he came back to Christianity, and was baptized. Now, this guy had lived a not so great life- smoking, drinking, frequent cussing, etc. He didn't let that stop him from being baptized. 2 years after being baptized, he passed away. Sure, he probably won't get rewarded for good deeds, but he's in heaven. Doing good deeds are supposed to complement faith- not the other way around. If you have faith in Jesus/God, blah blah blah, then you can go to heaven, no matter what you've done. If you also practice good actions, you'll be rewarded after you die. So if you have faith without good deeds, you're not really pleasing God as mush as you should. If you have good deeds without faith, you're not going anywhere special in the afterlife. 

Most of us think that if a good God exists, He would judge us with our morals more importantly than our worships and religious necessities; don't we think that way? God wants us to be good people.
But why? Why we suppose the morals to be so important?
I think it is just because we can't think of something else to be judged with. Only the worships/religious works and the moral actions. Does someone in world think that God will judge people according on how much they jump with scissors in their hands ("OK, you have jumped with scissors 6 hours per day, you may go to Heaven") how many apples they ate instead of oranges ("You have eaten 50,000 oranges but only 20,000 apples! Go to Hell!") or something else unreasonable to judge you can even imagine?

Corporate mega-churches have turned Christianity into just another 'religion', where everyone has to wear their WWJD bracelets, put on their fish symbols on their cars, only listen to 'Christian' music, and then God will bless them. God judges people (I think) based on how they have served those in need. In Matthew 25 (I forget which verses, too lazy to look 'em up), after Christ is judging the nations for their deeds, He says, "Have run the race, and kept the faith? Have you clothed Me when I was naked? Have you fed Me when I was hungry? When I was thirsty, did you give Me something to drink? When I was a stranger, did you invite Me in? When I was sick, did you visit Me? and in prison, did you come to Me?" To which the judged people reply, "Lord, when did we see you naked, and hungry, and thirsty, and a stranger, and sick, and in prison?" And Jesus replies, "Whatever extent that you did these things to the least of people, you did it to Me."

So in other words, whatever we did to/for other people, is also what we are doing to Jesus, and that's what our actions are going to be judged upon.

Religion be damned! I'm becoming a Pastafarian!

Seriously, I'm a Christian, and although Christians tend to disagree with the LDS/Mormon church/cult, monkey_05_06 is actually the only person who has posted that I agree with. Kudos.

Is the full album going to be free to download? How long is it in total?

I think one should also ask:

What is the first commercial AGS game?

Probably Adventures of Fatman. I don't think anyone would know what the best selling AGS game would be, except the game's seller. 

Good memory, Drummer. Also, the "best game" is of course silly - records are about measurable things; quantity, size, time. Which makes only 50% of the questions not silly. Or only slightly silly.

Recently the general quality of most new games were discussed, would we want a race for the "largest number of AGS games" record?

Right. The 'game with the best (insert category here)' is only based on personal opinion. It would be cool to do stuff like 'Most games released', or 'Most AGS Awards', or 'Game with the most AGS awards', etc.

This thread reminds me of this: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22263.0

Almost identical! (except for the stupid question about CJ being british :)

Some people here may remember when I first joined these forums, I was working on a parody of Harry Potter featuring guns and weapons. I was playing what I had of it last week and realised how poor and lazy the idea was. I was being really over ambitious too. The graphics were rather poor as well.

However, I want to return to this game, but Time Kid is more important at the moment (because it's further into production than any other of my game attempts). I think that the HP thread gained the most attention though, so I think I could return to the game and do something good with it someday.

Some old and bad screens (I'm 50 times better now (IMO)):

Wasn't there another HP adventure game, bases on the first one? I hate Harry Potter, but I was just curious.

Well, as I said, it's watermelon and everyone who knows swing should know it, so no, it's not their song, they're just making bootlegs to hear what they sound like.

Do you mean Watermelon Man or just 'Watermelon'? If it's Watermelon Man, is it Hancock's original, or his funkier version?

Nice! I love your style.

In french for the moment but as soon as i finish the game i will add an english translation of course

That's good. I hope the transition to English will be smoother than other AGS games. Some games are virtually unplayable because of horrible grammar in English.

Looks awesome! Is this going to be in English, or French?

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you have to use something made exclusively for the competition.

Well... digging up Completed Game Threads.. That's a first, I'd say.

Sam and Max: Hit The Road.  The main characters are emo, so they smack the road with any body part.

But they allow a man to butcher his own cow... Like the guy who shot his cow on Napoleon Dynamite.

well they probably want to identify the butcher so he can confirm whether or not he employed them go shoot his cows (you'd have to be pretty dumb yourself to have not worked that out  )

I know that. The article made it sound like they were the butcher's cows, and so it wouldn't be illegal for him to have them killed.

But if they had combined all three series' titles into one...

King of the Quest Space Police?

Or how about Police Kings' Quest for Space?