calls to prayer...

[Taloras]

Eh...youve got at least 1 pagan here who plays D&D. I have a Druid friend that plays, and another gamer friend is an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. I wont hold your Christianity against you though.

 

[DerianCypher]

I concur with Avatar. I am a Christian and my entire group is also. I have found that most are Christians misinformed about the game, but it's not really their fault. You never see good media about D&D outside the gaming realm. Everything that the general public sees or hears about it is generally very bad. Then their's the closed minded people like Jack Chick who give Christians a bad name.

Well, thats just my 2cp

DC

 

[alsih2o]

Eh...youve got at least 1 pagan here

i keep hearing this pagan term thrown around here on the boards....what is up with that, the dictionary definition must not be what you guys and gals are talking about....anyone wanna clarify?

 

[Darraketh]

I'm an atheist, so I ignore calls to prayer. But not threads about calls to prayer.

When I finally "came out" about it, it was as if I had an epiphany. When I admitted it to that first person it was as if a great and terrible burden had been lifted from my shoulders. Suddenly I felt incredible peace and joy.

However, I am an American and I'll defend your right to believe in Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy or the diety of your choice, as long as you don't force those views on me and your views are moral and law abiding.

If I believed in god the way I was raised I'd have a real problem with playing D&D. Fortunately all religion is mythology to me.

I will admit that I don't flaunt being an atheist. I mean, who really wants the added persecution?

 

[Furn_Darkside]

However, I am an American and I'll defend your right to believe in Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy or the diety of your choice, as long as you don't force those views on me and your views are moral and law abiding.

Good to see you are not above mocking them.

FD

 

[shadoth]

Prayer, god, etc

Yeah, I'm an athiest too, but I was raised christian, and I did a lot of gaming with both christians and non- both before and after I put superstition behind me. In my group now, we have mainly secular humanists/athiests, but it's not like it's an issue we bring up and argue about. Funny bit...I did an entire paper defending gaming in my christian thought class at the college I went to. My general impression was that christians were so badly misinformed about the entire issue, and had developed a number of knee-jerk reactions to the whole genre. I found it impossible to have any kind of meaningful dialogue with non-gaming christians about it, because they would spout off the list of things they had been trained to say, and then shut down. It was kinda sad, to see people stuck in that mindset. Anyway, I won't say gaming led me away from religion, but religious ignorance certainly played a part, albeit a small one. whatever.

shad

 

[Pielorinho]

Good to see you are not above mocking them.

FD

It's probably mocking -- but it may just be a silly way of saying, "I really don't care WHAT you believe in, no way, no how, as long as you don't talk to me about it." I"ve said similar things in other contexts -- "I don't care if you're a meat-eating Satanist, or a vegetarian freelover, or a Libertarian Rastafarian Humanitarian -- I don't wanna hear your spiel," for example. Not to mock meat-eaters, vegetarians, Satanists, Libertarians, Rastafarians, or Humanitarians, natch.

Alsi, folks who self-identify as Pagans usually practice a spirituality based primarily off pre-Christian European deities, with an emphasis on gender equity and a love of nature. The joke is that if you ask 13 pagans for a definition of paganism, you'll get 14 answers. And I remember being in a Pagan group once: we all went around and introduced ourselves, and of the dozen or so folks there, only one person comfortably called herself a Pagan. It's an eclectic bunch of folks. But the above definition applies to the bulk of 'em, I think.

i generally appreciate the calls to prayer, although I respond to them by saying, "you're in my thoughts," or something like that. I'm not religious, but the sentiment behind them is very positive, I think.

Daniel

 

[Darraketh]

Good to see you are not above mocking them.

FD

I don't see it has mocking. But your comment goes to show how much weight you give the mythology. To me it is all about believing in the unreal or fantastical.

I know in my heart of hearts there is no Easter Bunny and there is no god(s). However I was taught to believe in both.

Basically I was listing a group of characters I was taught to believe in. I gave up believeing in all of them. It just took a lot longer when it came to god.

Can you come up with a better list of mythical beings that are still being taught as real?

 

[Green Knight]

One priest, however, responded, "Third Edition? Rangers got the shaft, you know." I almost died laughing.

Serious? ROTFLMAO!

 

[Furn_Darkside]

I don't see it has mocking. But your comment goes to show how much weight you give the mythology.

Or your inability to read- note the "them". I am not religous.

Can you come up with a better list ...

A better list of currently worshipped beings or ideas? Yes, I can. You could have done so as well.

FD