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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 7997551" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>It's rather amazing to think that just 6 people writing letters to Sears and Penneys got them to stop carrying D&D books.</p><p></p><p>I think things are rather different about 40 years later, 6 customer letters couldn't have that kind of effect on merchandise.</p><p></p><p>Also, I remember that paranoia and hostility towards D&D. It may have been reduced by the 1990's and the 2nd edition era, but I ran across it enough in Junior High and High School in the early-to-mid 90's in rural Kentucky.</p><p></p><p>The people I dealt with had clearly never read any actual D&D books either, and had only the haziest and fuzziest of understandings of what it was.</p><p></p><p>In one particularly amusing instance, one kid I knew in school was SURE D&D was evil, because he had an article from some Church magazine that talked about it, and had proof. I was wondering what "proof" they had. </p><p></p><p>The "proof" was that D&D produced official Satanic idols to worship. Those "idols"? Metal miniatures. The article showed various official D&D Ral Partha minis, and focused on a big red dragon. . .which it said was clearly a demon, and that the point of these was clearly to be idols for players to worship.</p><p></p><p>I tried setting my classmate straight, but given the choice between believing his friend, and believing his parents and preacher, he chose to believe his preacher and parents and called me a liar for saying that wasn't an idol to worship.</p><p></p><p>The last time I encountered the D&D "Satanic Panic" was circa 1997, when I had a preacher at a Church I was attending and volunteering at kick me out of the congregation when I mentioned I played D&D. I was told that unless I brought my books in to be burned and repented before the congregation, I wasn't welcome there anymore. I left that Church and never came back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 7997551, member: 14159"] It's rather amazing to think that just 6 people writing letters to Sears and Penneys got them to stop carrying D&D books. I think things are rather different about 40 years later, 6 customer letters couldn't have that kind of effect on merchandise. Also, I remember that paranoia and hostility towards D&D. It may have been reduced by the 1990's and the 2nd edition era, but I ran across it enough in Junior High and High School in the early-to-mid 90's in rural Kentucky. The people I dealt with had clearly never read any actual D&D books either, and had only the haziest and fuzziest of understandings of what it was. In one particularly amusing instance, one kid I knew in school was SURE D&D was evil, because he had an article from some Church magazine that talked about it, and had proof. I was wondering what "proof" they had. The "proof" was that D&D produced official Satanic idols to worship. Those "idols"? Metal miniatures. The article showed various official D&D Ral Partha minis, and focused on a big red dragon. . .which it said was clearly a demon, and that the point of these was clearly to be idols for players to worship. I tried setting my classmate straight, but given the choice between believing his friend, and believing his parents and preacher, he chose to believe his preacher and parents and called me a liar for saying that wasn't an idol to worship. The last time I encountered the D&D "Satanic Panic" was circa 1997, when I had a preacher at a Church I was attending and volunteering at kick me out of the congregation when I mentioned I played D&D. I was told that unless I brought my books in to be burned and repented before the congregation, I wasn't welcome there anymore. I left that Church and never came back. [/QUOTE]
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