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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 299427" data-attributes="member: 2067">EVERYBODY HUG NOW! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But, yeah, I will defend the right of people to believe D&D is evil, even if I don't think it is, personally. I'll even defend beliefs I view as morally very wrong (I personally loathe the philosophy of the KKK, but I do respect their right to believe it).In fact, I remember a post once where I basically spelt out *why* the conservatively religious types may have a problem with D&D -- human beings are rational creatures, and there is a logic in it, even if it is, IMHO, a flawed logic.I was introduced to D&D through my first year in the local Catholic school, so you can see how universal this is (e.g.: not very)In my experience, most people are fairly rational. If you explain to them what D&D is and why it isn't that dangerous for morality, they don't hold anything against it.There are a few that won't really listen and who think they're being rational when they're really just spouting what they've been told. These guys, *nothin'* will really force them to think otherwise, unless the person telling them how to think begins to think otherwise. Not even an outpouring of care and prayer by the corrupted ones. After all, we're not the epitome of evil, we're just misled.And as for this being religion's best exposure...I'd say that's pretty true. From what I've seen on here and Nutkinland, the Christians have come accross as kind and not too preachy, and the pagans/athiests/etc. have actually come accross as occasional preachy-reactionary yahoos. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think it's because by playing D&D, they've already sort of "weeded out" the wrong sort of folk. These guys know that D&D isn't evil, and don't assume that those playing are being misled (well, not by D&D, anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) They know that the likes of Jack Chick give them bad names. And it probably grates on them every time a post like this comes up.--Jacob Driscoll, Gentle Agnostic who think Mr. Jesus probably had a few good ideas, regardless of actual divinity or not. Y'know, ideas like acceptance and not passing judgement.</blockquote>

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