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Entries from March 2008

D&D Character

March 21, 2008 · 7 Comments

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OK, so this is a super-nerdy thing to do, but I can’t help it - I love these things. I only played D&D once and spent most of my time irritating the DM with my insistence that I be given a “Blasting Guitar of Power” that, when played skillfully, would destroy my enemies. Anyway, here’s my results from Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus :

I Am A: Lawful Neutral Human Cleric (5th Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-12
Dexterity-13
Constitution-11
Intelligence-15
Wisdom-12
Charisma-14

Alignment:
Lawful Neutral A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs him. Order and organization are paramount to him. He may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or he may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government. Lawful neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you are reliable and honorable without being a zealot. However, lawful neutral can be a dangerous alignment because it seeks to eliminate all freedom, choice, and diversity in society.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron’s vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity’s domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric’s Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.

Categories: Fun Stuff

Speaking at “Answers in Truth”

March 19, 2008 · No Comments

I will be speaking in Indiana this April on “Christian Apologetics” and “The Message Behind the Movies.” For more info click HERE.

Categories: News

Extreme Apologetics

March 19, 2008 · No Comments

OK, I hardly ever just point to other people’s stuff here, but this is too great to miss: www.tektonics.org/extremeapologetics.html

Categories: Apologetics · Fun Stuff

Zeitgeist Responses

March 7, 2008 · 2 Comments

The movie Zeitgeist was shown at Southern Evangelical Seminary (along with many other schools) Saturday March 15th along with a panel of professors to discuss its theories (primarily pt. 1 - the attack on Christianity). As the website says: “It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves . . .”

My thoughts are that atheists should be offended that such tripe is being ascribed to their position. I could have made a better attack on Christianity than this. “Sun God” = “Son of God”? (come on - English didn’t even exist back then!) . . . tired old falsehoods regarding non-existent myth parallels . . . December 25 being Jesus’ birthday . . . pathetic. If I did not know better I’d think a Christian made this film to make atheists look ignorant, as it is little more than a collection of known historical falsehoods. While these claims have been debunked for years in various venues, here are some that seem to be the first internet-based direct responses to the film (the last one is a 10 minute video):

Please note that I have not reviewed these responses in full nor the websites on which they appear.

Categories: Apologetics · Culture