I am tempted to address Harry's, let's call them, "concerns" about Christianity. I realize that a lot of Christians think all the things he accuses, but I find that these are either errors (things that Christians believe that are not biblical) or not relevant (things that Christians do that are not damning to the faith). There are many Christians who believe that Dungeons & Dragons is a Satanic practice. Obviously we have Christians here--among whom I know I can count John Cross, Eric Ashley, David Marcoe, Shawn Kelley, and Kelly Keck, at least--who agree that the game is perfectly good for Christians to play, and I think that the Christians who wrote it certainly did not see themselves creating a tool for Satanic indoctrination. Christians can be wrong about things. In fact, when I post on the Lutheran board, I often find myself saying that I know I am wrong about some of the things I believe; if I knew which ones they were, I'd correct them, but meanwhile I've corrected enough of my incorrect beliefs already that I'd have to be pretty naive to think I'd got them all.
However, I agree with Adam that this is a gaming board, and not really a place to get too deeply into discussions of what we believe. In that spirit, I will give some idea of what I believe--although honestly, my work is splattered all over the Internet, and you can find it if you're interest.
I was raised among Baptists, but the primary influence I got from them was to respect the Bible and believe it as at least historically accurate. The more I studied it, the more I found it to be true and defensible. I engaged in this study in part through interaction with Christians of many different backgrounds and denominations--in addition to the Baptists, there were the Presbyterians, Full Gospel, Charismatics, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Catholics, Orthodox, Assemblies of God, Methodists, Nazarenes, and quite a few others to one degree or another. I think--I hope--I reached something of an understanding of Christian faith that is not fettered by particular denominational positions. I know what I believe on a number of divisive issues, and I know why I believe that, and I know why others believe otherwise. For example, I believe that the rapture/tribulation/millennium doctrine mentioned by John and expounded in many books of which the Left Behind series is only the most recent, is possible but unlikely (I discuss this in my paper on what I call The Sandy Becker Theory of Eschatology). I teach scripture, and am particularly fond of Paul, and how well he manages to restate what Jesus said in ways that come through clearly to the non-semitic reader. My openness to the diversity within the Christian Church has gotten me persistently re-elected to serve as chaplain of the Christian Gamers Guild, an organization in which there are many pastors and educated laymen of many denominations, so I seem to have achieved something of a universal approach.
In creating Multiverser, I put forward a cosmology which is not that far from my own theories about spiritual realities: that there is a single creator God, who has created many spirit beings who from our perspective might properly be called gods, and given them spheres of authority; some of these have served faithfully, while others have turned against their creator, and it is difficult for mortals to understand who is on what side.
Ultimately, though, the gospel--the unifying message of the Old and New Testaments--is that God, The Creator God, wants us to trust Him. Jesus fits into that in a very complex way, as the messenger who refocused us on that message, as the way God was able to take the suffering (since any time anyone does wrong, someone suffers, and the one who forgives is the one who suffers, so God had to find a way to suffer in order for forgiveness to have any meaning) and pay the legal price of justice, and more.
However, as I say, this is not really the place for this. Anyone who wishes to discuss it in greater detail can contact me by e-mail.
--M. J. Young