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<blockquote data-quote="shadoth" data-source="post: 298959" data-attributes="member: 5540">Prayer, god, etcYeah, 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</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadoth, post: 298959, member: 5540"] [b]Prayer, god, etc[/b] 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 [/QUOTE]

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