This place is literally no better than any other imageboard, and the way I've been treated in the past makes want to drift even further from God
There's good Christians here, ones that are helpful and even understanding that I respect, but a lot of bad ones who outweigh the good by a lot, at least in terms of voice
Is there any place where this isn't the case
At this point my faith is holding on by a hair thread, and I want to be saved
Hey man, what's the matter? Whatever it is, I hope you'll still have a good Mass today. I will pray for you during mine. Never despair of the mercy of God friend.
Angel Hill
Understand that we got more recovering Zig Forumsacks and other types from the other board coming in a lot recently, and with them, their old baggages and imageboard culture leftovers and that is not counting trolls and LARPers looking to shooting shit.
As far as I can see, for every troll replies, I also see three others good replies. You are welcome to post, to share your troubles and ask for prayers here, user. Do not let those bother you.
Jackson Thomas
Also best not to respond to these people.
David Thomas
This place has its ups and downs. God bless you, OP.
Jayden Adams
MAN UP
Evan Thompson
Well if this is who i think it is. But also. Why would your worldview hinging on the temperament of people on the board. Maybe you're new, and i'm not one to talk looking back on 7 months ago. But a solid foundation to a worldview isn't going to be easily phased be something as. There's fallible human beings on the internet. Not including devious/trolls on the webs also. Now, if you're are that person that goes around i've seen every month, every two months, post generic anime pic, Gay post, *You guys don't really hate gays,, right?*. If that's you, then yea screw off troll lol. I hope not, but that's my advice, if you're sincere. You need to work out a worldview or it's always going to be in flux, like it is now…
Go to your priest. This place isn't appropriate for meaningful discussion
Mason Jackson
this
Julian Jones
Don't use this dumb board for stuff like that. It's full of larpers pretending to be Christians, find a nice community instead of this.
Eli Flores
That is sadly true
Put your trust in God, user, not in men. Surrender yourself and your life to Jesus Christ. Faith, love, and surrender in Jesus Christ, that is the only road to salvation.
Seek Him, and trust in His promises: Psalms 145:18, Proverbs 2:3-5, Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 7:7-11
Don’t give up user! You can still be saved! Also seek out help irl instead of listening to an anonymous image board.
Samuel Reyes
Well, that's the """charm""" of America """Christianity"""
Lucas Sanchez
And what third-world pit do you live in?
Nolan Wright
This
I'd recommend leaving this place. Sometimes there's good discussion but a lot of people here would rather screech "DEUS VULT" than spread God's omnipresent love.
Read "The Case For Christ" if you want the reasons to stay Christian spelled out for you.
Don't feel bad for feeling tempted to apostate. A temptation resisted is a test won.
God loves you, even if the Zig Forumsacks hate you despite having never met you.
God loves you and you cannot undo that but God is also deserving of praise and worship. Don't be foolish and leave God because of a bunch of hooligans bullying you.
Remember, when someone tells you to kill yourself here, they're being a bad Christian.
Don't take this place too seriously. I mean, winnie the pooh's sake, we've got people arguing in favor of suicide-baiting, calling each other NPCs, and arguing over the value of anime-posting in this thread alone.
That should tell you something.
If you want to talk to someone who practices Christianity on the more loving side that this board winnie the pooh hates, hit me up here.
^me I'd like to clarify, I have a throwaway email I will use if you'd like to talk privately.
Justin Flores
Serious reply here. I suggest you to meet a real person directly instead of us, a bunch of fags behind computer screen. Real empathy can only be experienced in real life.
Caleb Phillips
Eyup also anime OP Gettin' awfully coincidental in here pardners
Joshua Miller
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Josiah Perez
The moderators and many of the newfags assume imageboard culture is bad somehow, so they're actively trying to suppress it the wordfilter is an obvious example, and the mods have said anime is only barely tolerated because they're afraid of scaring off the Christ-chan audience. The problem is that they don't actually understand imageboard culture and in trying to create something nicer they've just made a board almost as passive-aggressive as /a/. The best christian discussions on imageboards have always been spontaneous, emerging naturally within other threads. Trying to make a dedicated Zig Forums board was a mistake and either dried up those conversations or replaced them with screeching newfag Catholics who can't meme. I'll keep you in my prayers for a while. My memory is pretty bad through so please forgive me if I forget.
Welcome to online Christians. They are mostly converts who came out of imageboard culture and love to feel better than everyone and band together to look down on other "less faithful" believers, while spewing memes and taking scripture lightly.
Isaac Ross
Why not simply answer? Are you one of those self-hating teenagers that despises their own nation? Or are you just JIDF?
Joshua Hernandez
you're not very bright, are you? maybe try r/christianity
Jayden Long
That is most "Christians" tbh
Julian Watson
>please join our (((Discord))) If IRC was cancer, Discord is a bucket of corrosive acid someone mistook for punch.
You base your faith on an imageboard? on a thread? Go to church. If you're the animeguy who spams with hey guys thread do not be surprised people are annoyed by them.
Owen Perez
Thank the mods this thread is still up, but people calling out this fag are being banned
Landon Powell
What's stopping you user? There are always going to be rude people everywhere. But God is good, and why are you letting some random people on the internet prevent you from having a personal relationship with God?
i don't think making a dedicated board was a bad thing, but you're definitely right about the passive-aggressiveness. A big problem is the general encouragement of single-issue Zig Forums type threads that always end up being polarized between denominations, instead of lifestyle threads that are more ecumenical in nature. I doubt anything's going to really get fixed though because of the way the current year Zig Forums mod team operate I.E focusing their energy on making the board into a twitter catholic factory instead of improving the user experience. Personally, I'd say that most of the deeper issues the board is currently experiencing are the result of our new board owner being much more active compared to our old one who was the epitome of the hands-off approach. If you spend some time on the discord you'll see how its mods and casual users look up to Tutor as some kind of venerated knowledgeable patriarch instead of what he really is, the mod team tard wrangler. I'm not saying the guy doesn't know his stuff, but there's been a critical disorientation of what the administration views as its mission ever since the mod team became not just 100% catholic, but 100% of a specific kind of catholic that has autistically low tolerance for anyone outside of catholicism. There's this intense stubbornness that results from the entirely catholic mod team having an active owner that reciprocates their views. I'm not even here to say that catholicism is wrong or that you shouldn't proselytize, but guess what happens when Zig Forums, a board with a huge population of people who identify as christian but are not catholic, is solely modded by people who are all in complete agreement that non-catholics, even "apostolic" orthodox, are not christians whatsoever. The fact of the matter is, when the mod team convinces themselves that something is "anti-catholic" in nature, they will do everything in their power to ruin it, either by directly attacking it, or by encouraging behavior considered "pro-catholic" to attack it. That's what you have to realize about the mod team, they don't gauge board quality by how much its users enjoy using it, but by how hard it shills catholicism. The end result? More rabid unecumenical nu-catholics who literally can't meme, disaffected non-catholics reacting to that hostility (poorly), and gravitation towards community-destroying aggression instead of content-creating coexistence. Tutor has literally said that an inter-denominational christian board cannot be good because it's doomed to devolve into argumentative hostility because christians of different denominations can't even meme near each other without getting at each others throats. It seems that most users have come to agree with him. Sad!
Brandon Martinez
p.s, filtering swears is alright but making it "winnie the poo" shows you how meme-of-the-week twitter catholic the mods really are
David Martin
Weebs SEETHING ITT
Joshua Richardson
We are wallowing in excrement in this board. JIDF and leftypol's infiltrate everyday and mods can't help with that. This board should be purged, the resulting migration causing constant fresh Christian generals to sprout in other boards not accustomed to it.
With this constant force, talking, discussing and shitposting people will take notice and maybe venture a look to see what its all about.
This board is just an angry family bickering with each other. The fight must be taken out into the open and never cease protelysing!
Don't know what you were thinking. No one here is actually Christian. Just a bunch of aspies that like to larp as defenders of the faith before they jerk off to tranny porn for the 4th time today.
Zig Forums is the stereotypical "(((Christian))) conservative is so bigoted because he can't deal with his own homosexuality/transexuality/pansexuality/kettlesexuality." Syndrome. I'd wager that most people here fap to tranny porn more often then they read the bible.
Henry Flores
Speak for yourself.
Angel Ross
Lmao everytime
Daniel Scott
It hurts because it’s true But in all seriousness, Zig Forums isn’t a failed board by any means. Yeah we get into heated debates over stupid shit, yeah we act like we’re God’s gift to humanity, and yeah the quality of the threads has gone downhill from when I first came here. But you know what else has decilned in quality and is full of narcissism and infighting? CHRISTIANITY ITSELF!!! And you know when that started? Basically once Jesus left the earth, and even before that (Luke 9:46; 22:24). We’re all human beings, and even though we have the promise the gates of Hell will never completely overtake us, that doesn’t mean Satan isn’t gonna try his damned hardest to. What we all should do is just pray, and just try to make ourselves better. That’s the only real way God can change this board for the better.
Where exactly? I keep hearing this meme(mostly from you, i assume), but when i ask for any evidence(and i mean factual, reply-based evidence, not "can't you see/ isn't it obvious that blabla") of this omnipresent leftypol entryist boogeyman, i get silence.