Swearing on a Christian Server refers to a series of jokes about cursing in family-friendly online communities that have strict rules forbidding swearing. In 2017, they became the subject of image macros and other memes joking about the servers' strict rules on swearing on the servers, particularly for the sandbox mining game Minecraft.
Christian servers have long been a part of online gaming communities. For example, the earliest Christian Minecraft server dates back to when the game was launched in Beta on December 20th, 2010. On that day, user Spector17 of Minecraftforum.net created a thread promoting a gaming "clan" called Soldiers of Christ, a community of christian gamers with a dedicated server that would be playing Minecraft.  Christian servers for video games had existed prior those for Minecraft but have seen little online spread. One of the more popular examples of these servers being mocked in a humorous context appeared on April 1st, 2013, when YouTuber Playing Gaemz uploaded a video in which he is killed by an admin in a Battlefield 3 game because he said "Holy shit," gaining over 29,000 views (shown below). ADVERTISEMENT
Jokes about swearing on Christian servers began appearing more in the early half of 2017. On March 6th, 2017, Redditor CommanderQBall uploaded an image macro of an unnaturally muscular Winnie the Pooh captioned "Sorry sir this is a Christian server so no swearing" to /r/me_irl, gaining 2,100 points (shown below). ADVERTISEMENT
Other image macros relating to swearing on Christian servers and communities appeared in the ensuing months, often in a similar manner to the Please Do Not Swear On My Profile, Thanks meme. On April 27th, 2017, a thread was posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop inquiring about the origin and the spread of the joke on /r/dankchristianmemes. There, a user posted an image that was a variation with Club Penguin (shown below). The joke began being associated with Minecraft in the early summer of 2017. On June 12th, Redditor caomanderwhab posted an edit of the Pooh image with a caption about a Minecraft server to /r/2b2t, gaining over 90 points (shown below). ADVERTISEMENT
In the following months, many more image macros about swearing on Christian servers began appearing in meme-centric subreddits such as /r/dankmemes and /r/MemeEconomy. A popular part of these jokes involved saying words like "frick" and "heck," which are family-friendly substitutes for actual curse words. On August 31st, 2017, an edit using an image from Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do gained over 10,000 points on /r/dankmemes (shown below, left). Another post from August 5th used a character from Courage the Cowardly Dog and gained 1,500 points (shown below, right). The trend in memes has been covered by KnowYourMeme and The Daily Dot. ADVERTISEMENT
There are no videos currently available. View All Images 12/11/2017 10:29 am Level 13 : Journeyman Mage NooseMooseHello, I mean not for this to be offensive to anyone, I am pretty good at command blocks but a crap builder, I need a build of a christian church if that is possible, for you guys to link in a reply, thanks.
Minecraft is a terrific game — sort of like a virtual Lego world with infinite online possibilities. Players can make anything from basic structures:
…to more elaborate ones. A time intensive Minecraft church Educators are already aware of Minecraft’s potential in the classroom, to the extent that Minecraft has created Minecraft: Education Edition to accommodate teachers. But Minecraft can also be useful for both parents and Christian educators in teaching children about both liturgy and the Bible. Here, I outline some ways Minecraft can be used in Christian education. A few notes before we begin:
So here are some ways to use Minecraft in Christian education: Teaching about the church: When teaching our children about the church, we often talk about what the special objects and places in churches are and how we use them. We show them the baptismal font, the altar, the sanctuary, the choir, etc. Why not show them these parts of a church and then have them build their own Minecraft church building, alone or in teams? Where would they put the pulpit? The altar? The font? Depending on the kids, they could discuss stylistic decisions. Why choose clear glass or stained glass? (Both are options in Minecraft.) Why choose a small font or an immersion font? (You could use anything from a bowl to a fountain inside the church.) What significance would the choices they make have on worship? Kids can consider these questions as they work. External view of a Minecraft church my son (12) made when we were doing Christian education at home this summer. Teaching with structures: Want to teach kids what Noah’s ark looked like? The tabernacle the children of Israel used in the desert? Solomon’s temple? What about structures related to church history? Early churches? The cells where the desert fathers and mothers lived? Talk about what these structures looked like and why, and then have kids build their own versions in Minecraft. Have kids tell Bible stories on Minecraft: Basic Minecraft creative mode allows players to write on signs or in books that can be opened and read. A Minecraft beginner might set up armor stands as people and create a series of tableaus telling a Bible story. In one image, Joseph, bedecked in fancy armor, could be annoying his brothers near a sign explaining what is happening. In another, the brothers could be standing over Joseph in a pit. Etc. More experienced players can dye leather armor to make it look more like clothing. They can even use command blocks to make characters move and enact the stories. Armor sets waiting to become characters in a Bible story. Signs and books can tell what’s going on in each scene of the Bible story. Other uses:Parents and educators can use Minecraft in all kinds of contexts. It need not be limited to structures and storytelling. For example, our Sunday school class has used it in worship. The kids each created a station for Stations of the Cross using Legos, paintings, videos, and other creative approaches for their stations. We brought in laptops and a couple of kids used Minecraft worlds to create stations. Then we went through and prayed the Stations of the Cross. I cannot find the screenshots of the Minecraft stations, sadly, but here is a photo of a Lego station in which Christ enters Jerusalem on a donkey with people watching and rejoicing. (Lego options were limited, and the results were sometimes entertaining.) It conveys a similar feel to the Minecraft stations the kids made. When I have used Minecraft to teach my own kids or Sunday School students about Christianity, they have brought incredible creative energy to their projects. Minecraft is a great place to meet many kids where they are and have them bring in their own creative energy into engaging these ancient stories, as well as our day-to-day church life. I hope you enjoy exploring possibilities with them. Resources for parents (or kids who are interested): There are literally thousands of videos like these. You can find tutorials on everything from the basics to building particular structures to making particular elements. Play around on YouTube and you should be able to find what you need. Also, ChurchNext is building a course on using Minecraft in Christian education. Look for it in winter/spring of 2021. (Full disclosure: I’m a course designer at ChurchNext.) Have you used Minecraft in interesting ways for Christian education? Please comment below and share them! Liz Brignac is a freelance writer and the Senior Course Designer at ChurchNext. She lives in Cary, NC and is the mother of two kids, ages 9 and 12. She’s incredibly grateful for her elder son Joseph for creating the Minecraft images used in this post. |
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