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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1606619" data-attributes="member: 99">Many years ago, in the late 80's, the minister of a friend of mine tried to talk us out of playing roleplaying games at the behest of his mother on one occasion.  His arguments became more ridiculous and grasping at every turn and I almost felt sorry for him.  Almost.He started out by saying that the games were just "bad" and clearly had no understanding of what they were about.  We explained that, at its core, roleplaying was just cooperative story telling."So you sit around telling lies.  That is the work of Satan."To this we responded that stories are not "lies".  He countered saying that they were lies if they were about things that could not happen.  We responded that a large portion if not a vast majority of all literature fell into that category."That stuff is the work of Satan as well."We asked him if he felt that the Complete Works of Shakespeare fell into that category.  He said that it did if it portrayed situations that could not happen in reality.At that point I politely informed him that he may or may not be correct about what constitutes the "Work of Satan" but that, if it was his contention that virtually all americans were dabbling in these works by virtue of the books they read, the television they watched and the movies they enjoyed, my sin of playing roleplaying games was certainly no more egregious than theirs.  I departed.That friend and I still game together by the way.He no longer attends that church (he does still go to church and is a good Christian by my estimation - his current pastor is a very cool guy too).</blockquote>

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