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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 7842039" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>As someone who follows the teachings of Aleister Crowley I've felt the impact of the Satanic Panic on two fronts. As a D&D player in Junior High and High School and then as an active Thelemite in my twenties and early thirties. It's very true that true believers will not read a book "because they already know what it says" and both D&D and Thelemites/Crowley are accused of sacrificing children for power and all sorts of other nonsense. What I learned in both cases is, as funny as it can be, don't use shock humor to win your argument! I started using language that was common between myself and the person "attacking" me, such as Guardian Angels and prayer, finding common ground and was able to open them up to new ideas in the case of my religion and to gaming in the case of D&D. Not always D&D itself, sometimes it was Shadowrun or MERP of all things! IN the case of Thelema my wife's mother and brother in law were very skeptical of our relationship until the mother came to visit before the wedding and talked to me and several other members of our community and the Brother in Law witnessed our Mass and then pursued learning what we are actually about and has been, in spite of his fundamentalism, very positive to people who ask about us. Things like this, finding common ground, I find so much more constructive and transformative than call-out culture, doxing and shunning.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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