Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
Thirty is the default . Most people keep it, even if they are aware of the possibility to change it.


So, the question remains, what nationality is Ludens?


Hmmm, when looking it from this viewpoint, the infraction is indeed utterly preposterous. Christian bias it is, and Ludens does not have to be Christian to assert such bias. We live in a culture shaped by Christianity and holdovers remain aplenty. I bet a dollar for doughnut Ludens would have not given an infraction for "by Allah!" or "by Brahma!"

(since Buddha is not at all a deity in the vast majority of the forms of Buddhism and since "by Zeus!" was not considered blasphemy in the Antiquity, I had to choose better examples to illustrate the point ).

However, yes, lobf could have been more polite about it... And anyway, I thought the infraction was for mainly the perceived "cut-off" , or uncouth nature of lobf's remark to Fluvius and not because of the Jesus reference...
First, Portugal is a Catholic country, and even in my country, devout Christians use "Jesus!" as an exclamation work.
The point behind going into "religious" insults is why should some beliefs take precedence over others? As you well pointed out, if he had said "By Brahma" or something of the sort, nobody would have been warned? If I belonged to a sect where people worship my divinity (Which already exists btw) where while I'm Jolt, only I am allowed to be called Jolt by myself, other people most call me "Most Enlightened Being", and anything less than that would make me profoundly offended, would those people calling me Jolt or something else be issued warning points?

Unless its clearly a discriminatory attack on one religion, I hardly see how one can recieve warnings from something religious-related that isn't either scandalous and can't be manipulated to prevent people from saying basically anything.