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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 44046" data-attributes="member: 2067">religion & D&DQuoted:--Now, here's the really funny part of the story -- the school that was having the used book sale, where I got the AD&D MM, was a Catholic school!!!--See, that's not that funny to me. There's not instant animosity between religion and D&D. I went to catholic schools until college, and that's where I found and fell into my D&D addiction. Of course, that's also where I ended up renouncing Catholicism, but that's a differen story entirely unrelated to D&D. <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=":)" />Those who use their faith as an excuse to hate D&D give the rest of those believers a bad rap. There are far more understanding people who are good, god-fearing religious types than there are guys who take it a bit far.Just remember: Catholics are people too. <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=":)" />And those peoplpe who *do* hate D&D and call it satanic have good reasoning behind it, if you buy into their "givens."Think about it. They say that paganism is satanic. That's not too extreme of a belief to hold -- I'm sure many otherwise "normal" god-fearers beleive that not beleiving in their god is beleiving in someone posing as a diety -- a deciever. Satan.So along comes D&D. In D&D, you play the role of an admitted pagan. This is not the True God your worshiping. So, though it may be fantasy, you play someone who worships a deviever. You play a character that worships Satan.Now, if your view of Satan includes someone who is deceptive, alluring, wouldn't he go from that creative experience of pretending to be a pagan, to becoming a pagan. By playing in the world, you expose yourself to pagan ideas and pagan mindsets. Mindsets that may even exist in the God-fearing world, that are mirrored using creatures obviously of the devil's make.Okay, it doesn't stand up 100%, but it's not surprising to see.Once again, instead of judging people instantly lesser, it's often better to see what logic holds up their arguments. Of course, that logic may be flawed (paganism may not be nessecarily satan-worship. And in an imaginary world, where God does not exist as such, doesn't nessecarily mean anything for the Real World), but it is logic, and there are reasons for beleiving that.Attack the logic, not the idea. <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=":)" />Anyhoo, I keep babling, but people keep encouraging me, so let's see if my "defending" Jack Chick raises any eyebrows. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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