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From: tim@unc.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Jesus as an NPC
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Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 13:53:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 25 13:53:20 1983
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I utterly fail to understand how anyone could call Jesus anything but
Lawful.  Requiring adherence to certain semi-arbitrary codes of conduct on
pain of eternal damnation is about as Lawful as you can get.  In addition,
his doctrines attempted to negate the individual will in favor of the will
of The Big Authority Figure in the Sky, which is also an extremely Lawful
idea.  The entire Judeo-Christian-Moslem thing is extremely Lawful in its
approach to morality.

The other axis would seem to be clear cut.  Most people would not hesitate
to place Jesus squarely in Good.  Is this correct?  Remember that if Jesus
was telling the truth, he acted for a being which created Hell, ordered the
murder of thousands of relatively inoffensive pagans in a variety of places,
slaughtered thousands of innocent children and millions of animals in the
Flood, and so on.  Not only that, but Jesus appears to take a good deal of
pleasure in contemplating and expounding upon the damnation of his enemies.
These are not things I would consider appropriate for a Good player
character to participate in.

As a lark a while back, I worked up a Judeo-Christian pantheon for AD&D,
placing the various deities in the Seven Heavens (i.e., Lawful Good).  If
there is any interest, I suppose I could type them in for you all.
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Tim Maroney
duke!unc!tim (USENET), tim.unc@udel-relay (ARPA)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill