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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6659960" data-attributes="member: 6669384">When I was dating the lady I eventually married, her room mate was shocked, SHOCKED I say, to learn that I played D&amp;D.&quot;I thought those books were banned!&quot;, she said.&nbsp; I explained that you can't actually ban books in the US.&nbsp; 1st Amendment and all that.&nbsp; She was sure that you could, and that they did, because Satan and, well, reasons.1st Amendment protects not only free speech and free press, but also the freedom to follow a non-Christian religion, I explained.&nbsp; I followed up with an explanation that D&amp;D was not satanic, that the books never even pretended to tell you how to cast any of the spells, and that devils and such were listed in the Monster Manual as enemies to be fought.She was a college student who kept failing US Government courses.&nbsp; I wonder why? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But, as Ben Franklin once said, &quot;Arguing with someone who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 6659960, member: 6669384"] When I was dating the lady I eventually married, her room mate was shocked, SHOCKED I say, to learn that I played D&D. "I thought those books were banned!", she said. I explained that you can't actually ban books in the US. 1st Amendment and all that. She was sure that you could, and that they did, because Satan and, well, reasons. 1st Amendment protects not only free speech and free press, but also the freedom to follow a non-Christian religion, I explained. I followed up with an explanation that D&D was not satanic, that the books never even pretended to tell you how to cast any of the spells, and that devils and such were listed in the Monster Manual as enemies to be fought. She was a college student who kept failing US Government courses. I wonder why? :) But, as Ben Franklin once said, "Arguing with someone who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead." [/QUOTE]

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