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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6656786" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Depends largely upon one's religious views. For many of those who hold to a traditional religion, anything which encourages premarital/extramarital sex qualifies as evil. And that's without going to what would be, in the US, the fundamentalist side of things. Which said... any religious text other than the local dominant one's preferred texts would be a good fit. If running a historical  medieval game, anywhere north of Spain, the Quran, the Kabbalah, the Book of Lilith - all were grounds for burning. Hell, the Bible in the common tongue was considered evil in much of medieval Europe.Then again, a lot of hardliners in any religion are often unaware of the more outré portions of their own religious texts. I had a fundie co-worker who, while a nice lady, and capable of quoting from the gospels or the 5 books of the law, got all in a snit about another worker (on his lunch break) reading aloud some rather racy poetry over the phone. Poetry she assumed had to be from the Bhagavad Gita which I'd just lent him... but didn't recognize that it was actually from Song of Solomon. (Yes, the Christian Bible contains some pretty hot soft-porn.) She was rather aghast when I showed her the chapter...And then there's the whole raft of political-exemplar fiction... grabbing a few more well known titles:Animal Farm (Geo. Orwell)1984 (Geo Orwell)Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)On Basilisk Station (David Webber)Dune (Frank Herbert)Nightfall (Isaac Asimov)2150 AD (Thea Alexander)Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)All of which I've heard proclaimed as evil works by those seriously opposed to the socio-political views within.And thats' before getting into actual political rhetoric...</blockquote>

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