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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8686642" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>That's mostly my recollection of the time too. The whole Satanic Panic thing was primarily an American thing and a lot of it was a reaction to the cultural shifts and conflicts of the 70's. The Church is very much an international organization. I do remember them using some of the talking points, but I think that they were taking advantage of it for their own ends, probably competing with evangelicals and fundamentalist Protestants for influence over conservative Christians. The Church also tends to be more rational minded about things as well.</p><p></p><p>The closest I came to the Panic was in the late 90's. I was flipping through some new release at B. Dalton's - I don't remember which exactly - when some guy about my age, roughly late teens or early 20s at the time, started looking at the second Dark Sun MC and commenting on the monsters or something. Then some older woman came over and started scolding him for looking at it and that it was bad or something. I think maybe she was his mother but I don't know. He seemed a little strange, so I don't know if he was autistic or something, or she just had him browbeaten. She kept flashing <em>me </em>the stink eye, but I ignored her completely, and she got more and more agitated about it until she stormed away. She was probably looking for a fight and I left her feeling frustrated and unsatisfied. What interests me is none of her damn business, never has been and never will be. If she got in my face too much, well the D&D section wasn't far from the front counter where I could reasonably find the store manager.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To be fair, Gary did later admit he screwed up big time there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8686642, member: 8863"] That's mostly my recollection of the time too. The whole Satanic Panic thing was primarily an American thing and a lot of it was a reaction to the cultural shifts and conflicts of the 70's. The Church is very much an international organization. I do remember them using some of the talking points, but I think that they were taking advantage of it for their own ends, probably competing with evangelicals and fundamentalist Protestants for influence over conservative Christians. The Church also tends to be more rational minded about things as well. The closest I came to the Panic was in the late 90's. I was flipping through some new release at B. Dalton's - I don't remember which exactly - when some guy about my age, roughly late teens or early 20s at the time, started looking at the second Dark Sun MC and commenting on the monsters or something. Then some older woman came over and started scolding him for looking at it and that it was bad or something. I think maybe she was his mother but I don't know. He seemed a little strange, so I don't know if he was autistic or something, or she just had him browbeaten. She kept flashing [I]me [/I]the stink eye, but I ignored her completely, and she got more and more agitated about it until she stormed away. She was probably looking for a fight and I left her feeling frustrated and unsatisfied. What interests me is none of her damn business, never has been and never will be. If she got in my face too much, well the D&D section wasn't far from the front counter where I could reasonably find the store manager. To be fair, Gary did later admit he screwed up big time there. [/QUOTE]
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