I categorically reject the idea that there is any situation where I should turn off my brain and uncritically accept what someone tells me to be true. However, it doesn't have to be anti-Semitic for me to agree that using phylactery is not the best choice. After learning more about the origins of the word and how they're used in modern Judaism, I agree with choosing another word.Yeah, well, I am not of Semitic descent. My beliefs on the matter are not relevant.
Yes, but not their vocabulary.Entering a creatures home, slaughtering them, and taking all their stuff is still ok for now?
I categorically reject the idea that there is any situation where I should turn off my brain and uncritically accept what someone tells me to be true.
If someone is asking you to change your behavior then they clearly think your opinion is relevant. And that's pretty much all I care to say about the subject.I said my beliefs on the matter were not relevant. That phrase was carefully chosen. It presupposes that my opinions exist. I am not shutting off my brain.
Are you equating having an opinion to that opinion actually mattering? Such a position... lacks humility.
So?I am Jewish. I have always had at least one other player that was Jewish and another one or two whom had a parent or grandparent that was Jewish. We have never taken offense at use of the the term phylactery.
It's not D&D, but if you can find Atlas Games' Ars Magica supplement, Kabbalah: Mythic Judaism, you'll find a lot of what you're looking for.Honestly I would kind of want to see more Jewish stuff in D&D, you've got several thousand years of culture at a time contemporaneous with the Middle Ages and earlier and nobody goes there because everyone's afraid of being antisemitic. Which I get. But while I fit the genetic criteria I'm not an expert in the culture, so my fantasies about kabbalistic sorcerers animating golem armies and divining the future through gematria will stay vague and unformed. Oh well.