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<blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8372897" data-attributes="member: 79428"><p>In the real world, many religions were demonized by Christians as being the work of demons. The reason that devils in D&D are often horned and sometimes have goat-like legs is itself due to the demonization of the goat-like god Pan. This demonization of non-Christian religions in our history is probably a reason why some people find it uncomfortable in fantasy, even if in D&D and other games and media actual, for real demons and evil gods that command atrocities exist.</p><p></p><p>That said, at least one of these demonized religions also commonly practiced human sacrifice to appease their gods, believing these sacrifices were necessary to preserve the world itself (though the scale of this practice and who the sacrificial victims were seems to be still contested). To be fair, the people demonizing this religion also believed in one in which the chief deity was said to have previously both personally committed and commanded of its followers genocide, as well as to reject foreign cultural influences as evil, which led to centuries of evil acts by its followers in the form of holy wars, inquisitions, forced conversion, etc. Of course, these guys would argue that what they were doing was necessary to keep people from being tricked by evil forces into damnation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hexmage-EN, post: 8372897, member: 79428"] In the real world, many religions were demonized by Christians as being the work of demons. The reason that devils in D&D are often horned and sometimes have goat-like legs is itself due to the demonization of the goat-like god Pan. This demonization of non-Christian religions in our history is probably a reason why some people find it uncomfortable in fantasy, even if in D&D and other games and media actual, for real demons and evil gods that command atrocities exist. That said, at least one of these demonized religions also commonly practiced human sacrifice to appease their gods, believing these sacrifices were necessary to preserve the world itself (though the scale of this practice and who the sacrificial victims were seems to be still contested). To be fair, the people demonizing this religion also believed in one in which the chief deity was said to have previously both personally committed and commanded of its followers genocide, as well as to reject foreign cultural influences as evil, which led to centuries of evil acts by its followers in the form of holy wars, inquisitions, forced conversion, etc. Of course, these guys would argue that what they were doing was necessary to keep people from being tricked by evil forces into damnation. [/QUOTE]
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