A few interesting, if not amusing, articles about dnd....

[BMF]

...I do find it sad that, speaker as a gamer of over 20 years, I've encounted far more gamers who are bigoted against Christians, as opposed to Christians who are bigoted against gamers. And I'm not simply talking about having different beliefs or opinions here. The hate and rancor that gets spewed at Christians from some gamers makes Chick's rants pale by comparison....

That's probably true... Hell, I'm living proof....

I'll do my best not to start bashing christians here but, really, in all fairness I think I have reason for my antichristian vehemence. For as long as I can remember christians as a general group have attacked the games I play, the music I listen too, the lifestyle I lead, the freedom I love, the way I look (rather like Jesus, actually), the clothes I wear, the things I say, the books I read, and the ideas I have.

After 20+ years of being called things like "worse than the anti-christ," or "satan's bastard child." by god fearing christians, I can't help but feel a little angry towards them.

But the true fire of my hatred is fed by the mind-bending hipocracy that is summed up in this statement:

Erosion of family values-the Dungeon Master (DM) demands an all-encompassing and total loyalty, control and allegiance

Don't get me started.

Now, I know there are plenty of good-minded christians out there, I even know a few of them. So I don't generalize my feelings about christians to all of them. But, I also don't attempt to hide my utter disdane for religion of any sort, especially a religion that attempts to control your life the way Christianity does.....

 

[BMF]

they also entrain the player in an entirely different way of looking at life: what is called by anthropologists the "Magical World View(MWV)." This MWV is far outside the cultural norms of most societies, and certainly outside the realms of Biblical values.

Yes, I know I should ignore this thread before I say something truely hellish, but... well.... I couldn't let this slip by.

I'm not an anthropologist, but the concept of a MWV is familiar to me. I would strongly suggest that the Bible does indeed promote a MWV.

This is the most self-serving, disingenuous pile of infantile drivel I've seen spewed from a Jesus-jockey in months. The person who wrote that is useing the reader's ignorance against him to make him afraid of something that is "far outside the cultural norms of most societies, and certainly outside the realms of Biblical values."

Expert power. Authority power. Fear of the unknown. In-groups and out-groups. Those two sentences are textbook examples of some of the most classic principles of psychological influence. It should be illegeal to write such misleading propaganda.

 

[Number47]

...sometimes it's like <biological reference deleted for Eric's grandmother> into the wind.

Regurgitation? Meitosis? Reproducing? Infecting?

What could it possibly be?!

 

[omedon]

Yes, yes. Please leave out the religion bashing.

It is these large generalizations about groups which lead to so much hate and misunderstanding in our society.

Jack Chick and his lackey's make large generalizations and label all D&D players as Satan worshippers and murderers. Please do not do the same and label all Christians in the same manner based on the nonsensical rants of a few loonies like Chick. EVEN IF in your experience all the christians you have met are this way you have only met a tiny portion of the millions of them that are out there in the world.

So PLEASE do not generalize, no good can come of it.

 

[Henry@home]

Regurgitation? Meitosis? Reproducing? Infecting?

What could it possibly be?!

I can only say: DON'T go to the following site.

http://web.syr.edu/~dbgrandi/delz/jedsthought.html

It's bad for you.

 

[ConcreteBuddha]

SARCASM ALERT!

DnD is bad for you! It makes you think! Ow!

Head hurts! I need Chick to interpret reality for me...

The Bible is the only reading material that matters in this world. I memorize it and spew it at will! Don't know what it means, but that doesn't matter, because good men like Chick help me.

Besides, the Word of God is ALWAYS right!

The Computer is your friend! Are you happy, citizen?

UNSARCASM ALERT!

When reading the "Should Christians play DnD?", I substituted "play Dnd" with "think." Then everything made a lot of sense.

"Should Christians think?"

Chick and his groupies would say, "No, Christians should not think, they should follow blindly. The word of God is always right. The Bible is always right. Everything that counters the Bible is wrong."

Chick is from the plane of Mechanus. Ultimate Law. Primus.

Thinking, science, logic, DnD: these are all about opening up to as many options as possible, then choosing which ones are Good. Thus is the Goodness in Chaos.

An ordered faith (Lawful Feeler) is going to actively attack all things that are ultimately random or different (Chaotic Thinker).

P.S. I'm not implying that Christians, in general, don't think, or that Christianity espouses anti-thinking.

It doesn't do this any more than Scientists don't feel, or that Science espouses anti-feeling.

Some of the "best" (IMHO) Christians I have ever known take what is Good from the Bible, while leaving what is Evil.

I am instead implying that there is a certain segment of the population of the world that is perfectly happy not-thinking. (RPGers included. You know who you are!)

Chick caters to them.

My whole point is this: Chick doesn't want people to logically take his ideas seriously. He wants sheep to blindly follow.

He wants to be the right hand man of God. Chick wants to be Jesus.

Thus is his danger.

Please don't martyr him. Please listen to him. Please choose wisely.

 

[SSS-Druid]

The scary part is that the guy must actually believe that rituals are real or he wouldn't be saying that he taught D&D writers how to do them.He probably also believes in the easter bunny.

The sad thing is, he really should have chosen a different tradition of Wicca to claim to belong to than the Alexandrian one. We're a fairly close-knit group, and no one in the American Alexandrian tradition that I know has trained this yahoo.

*sighs*

 

[Nightfall]

Maybe this yahoo just enjoys pretending to be a Wicca. I know there are plenty of pretend Christians out there. Most of them are on TV.

Oh and I do believe in the Easter Bunny. I need the cholocate!

 

[Lady Dragon]

It's also obvious that the author of the article has never read The players handbook from any addition or he would know That the spells are not rituals just stats.You will also note that he does not name any names of the supposed TSR employees who did these things but I still believe in his warped little mind these guy actually believes D&D players have a seance or something before every session.

 

[Suldulin]

the 'wonderful' world of chick

very amusing page:

http://www.revolting.com/1.2/chick/chick.html

very very funny