Church of Salem

[VicarWhitby]

Disgrace!

I find the state of the house of worship in Salem to be a complete disgrace! High are the walls, but inside there is a hollow emptiness - just as the souls of Salem are rotten to the core! This empty edifice is a blight on the city and a pox against the hope of salvation. The town is bereft of a pulpit, and in such it is left without a rudder.

Why can't a man come to the house of the Lord and find a pew on which to sit? Why can he not meditate and after a time, find his humours restored? For how else do the poor find salvation in this world? How else can a destitute man restore his good health and fortune? There must be a place for the penniless to find relief - and where else but the house of our Father?

[Trenial]

Why are more people not voting on this. Vote people. You know how long it took the tribe to pave the way for the democracy we all call Salem?

Yes, by all means please make the Church DO SOMETHING USEFUL.

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Yes, by all means please make the Church DO SOMETHING USEFUL.

pretty please

[loftar]

For the record, it was the original idea that player-built churches should have sermons held in them regularly in order to keep fending off the darkness, wherein such fixtures as chalices or pulpits, or such consumables as hosts or wine, could be installed or improved upon in order to increase its efficiency in said role. We never got that far, of course.

We also considered that sermons would have to be held on real-life Sundays, and also that they might give a week-long-lasting buff of some or another kind, to be determined by said fixtures or consumables. The church in Boston would then have a similar although probably inferior effect that all the nubs could partake of each Sunday.

[Trenial]

I would go with that but leave the day optional? Get that multi denominational we see in Christianity. I know during the Philadelphia Age, or aka Brotherly Age in the Church(19/20th Century), many groups would worship on Saturday, eventually few them formed the modern Adventist denomination.

[Orcling]

If you add prayer bonuses on sunday, i suggest we add a crime scent for anyone who dares work on a sunday, as well as the crime debuff.

For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death. -Exodus 35:2

[Trenial]

The problem with the above arises with jewish legalism, being stiff necked. The word in Genesis, "and the morning and evening were the FIRST DAY", this is rendered as literally the very first day in time as it began. Not any particular day, or a start of a cycle. There is no way in hell to say the first day ever was SUNDAY.

[Orcling]

The problem with the above arises with jewish legalism, being stiff necked. The word in Genesis, "and the morning and evening were the FIRST DAY", this is rendered as literally the very first day in time as it began. Not any particular day, or a start of a cycle. There is no way in hell to say the first day ever was SUNDAY.

The first day was monday, Sunday was the seventh day. I suggest you go read your bible again.
Kill all who dare work on sunday!

[loftar]

The problem with the above arises with jewish legalism, being stiff necked.

While rabbinic Judaism has made sure to make up a ton of (man-made ^^) rules about how the Sabbath must be spent, I think you will find that Christian cultures throughout history have held the Sabbath, though not as strictly regulated, rather holy. :)

The word in Genesis, "and the morning and evening were the FIRST DAY"

I think you will find the relevant Genesis verse to be this:

For in the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and the seventh day he rested from all his work, which he had made. So God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work, which God created and made.

As for whether the seventh day was Monday or Sunday I would hardly think that Scripture would have any opinion on that, seeing as how they are heathen concepts. :)

[Trenial]

Exactly the point, to take it into a cycle is Rabbinical. The passage literally means the seventh day in time memorial, that literal day on a linear path of events.

Personally to keep the commandment and not adhere to any certain doctrine over any other, I count the days I work, if I work, im off, I work, thats 2 days, on a seventh which ever day it falls on, I do not work. Work always accomadates, even it means a third day off. Or its off to court we go!