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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5321838" data-attributes="member: 19675">This thread covers a lot of the ground of Necromancy = Evil vs Necromancy ≠ Evil arguments:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/277100-necromancy-evil-only-harmless-talking-your-dead-grandmother.html#post5192736" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/277100-necromancy-evil-only-harmless-talking-your-dead-grandmother.html#post5192736</a>Midway through the thread, I (and others) point out that "Eastern" faiths tend to place less of a taboo upon behaviors/actions would be Necromancy in a typical FRPG, and that even "Western" faiths like Judaisim & Christianity have varied in their treatment of such things- like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor" target="_blank">Witch of Endor</a> and certain ossuaries and the like:<a href="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/skull-cathedral-otranto-bones-martyrs-adorn-walls/9100" target="_blank">The Skull Cathedral of Otranto: Where the Bones of 800 Martyrs Adorn the Walls</a><a href="http://humourcafe.blogspot.com/2007/08/bone-church-in-czech-republic.html" target="_blank">Humour Cafe: Bone Church In Czech Republic</a><a href="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=79" target="_blank">The Bone Sculptor | Curious Expeditions</a> Then there are religions like Vodoun that see "necromancy" as a tool: whether it is evil or not depends upon the use to which it is put.  Calling up the dead for advice or to serve a good cause is a good thing; calling them up to harm the innocent is evil.</blockquote>

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