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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9883448" data-attributes="member: 19675">How they reacted to D&D depends heavily on the flavor of Christian.  The core of the fuss was in the American Evangelical movement.Me?  I’m a lifelong Roman Catholic & and an Army Brat who entered the gaming hobby in 1977-78.  During The Satanic Panic, I was attending a Catholic HS (run by monks) in Texas- though not quite in the “buckle” of the Bible Belt.1) my parents, though concerned by what they heard in media about D&D- and heavy metal- trusted me to figure it out for myself and/or come to them.2) the monks actually let me start an RPG club at the school.3) the ONLY people who gave me any guff about metal or gaming were my godmother (who was schizophrenic and had converted to several religions over time) and my art teacher who became born again between my freshman and sophomore years.None of the other Catholics or Protestants who gamed ever reported any major issues from family, either.  At least, not faith-based objections.  Like many, they caught more flack for being NERDS than anything else.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷🏾‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fe-2642.png" title="Man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone    :man_shrugging_tone4:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone4:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>