D&D General The Satanic Panic never really died?

[Bawylie]

Not addressed at you. Echoing your comment.

"Now do Islam" is a common meme in some circles where some one takes to task a traditional religious group for some stance that they disagree with, but the speaker believes that they have a double standard, both about who to respect and also with respect to the difference in courage required to ridicule the group.

For example, it takes very little courage to mock the Amish.

Ok, I misunderstood. Would you like me to delete my prior?

 

[Celebrim]

Ok, I misunderstood. Would you like me to delete my prior?

Nope. We're good. I shouldn't have assumed you or anyone else would get the reference, and I think having a record of the dialogue is a good thing.

 

[Undrave]

Not going to say that the Satanic Panic is gone (clearly, those same fears are still present in parts of society), but the last time Harry Potter made the ALA's top ten list of banned books was 2003. The last time a book was challenged for "occult/satanism" was 2013. If you look at 2018's stats, the majority are banned/challenged for having LGBTQIA+ content:

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023

Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books based on reports from the field and media coverage.

www.ala.org

Because of course that's what they target now...

 

[Morrus]

“Hey everybody! Get a load of this concerned mother’s sincerely held religious beliefs! Guess she didn’t get the memo that the 1980s are over HA HA!”

Classy.

Except that's not what I said, is it?

 

[Undrave]

That makes me the wet-blanket on the “lets all point and laugh at this lady” parade, but I’m comfortable with that.

Nobody said anything until you jumped in on like the third comment. There's been no parade of 'pointing and laughing', if anything we're just disappointed it's still a thing. You basically jumped the gun.

 

[iserith]

Look, I think both religious people and non-religious people alike can agree that everyone's entitled to their beliefs and that it's good that this person's mother is earnestly trying to help her daughter. It's just that she's wrong that D&D is the gateway to the occult. Everybody knows that's Pathfinder.

 

[Bawylie]

Except that's not what I said, is it?

I’m open to a more charitable interpretation.

 

[Undrave]

Look, I think both religious people and non-religious people alike can agree that everyone's entitled to their beliefs and that it's good that this person's mother is earnestly trying to help her daughter. It's just that she's wrong that D&D is the gateway to the occult. Everybody knows that's Pathfinder.

I think it's any book that has a D100 table. Now THOSE are the Devil's game.

 

[Morrus]

I’m open to a more charitable interpretation.

Feel free. I didn't much enjoy your uncharitable interpretation.

 

[Charlaquin]

Heck, even when a spell has a verbal or somatic component the book doesn't tell you what it actually is, just that it exists. They could be Nickleback Lyrics for all we know.

Don’t you know that’s the Devil’s music?