[NSFW] A Chilling Connection Between D&D, Myth, And The Real World.

[Luminous]

Satanism is a lot more common these days, it's the perfect time to panic.

 

[Luminous]

Real question: do you remember the Satanic Panic? 1980s?

Yeah, and it's pretty ironic. Satanism was so small (relatively), and we panicked. Now it's Gargantuan, and we're

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There are horrible people in the world. Sometimes, they, their inspirations and their actions get mirrored in RPGs.

The only connection between this guy and D&D is “Abraxas”. At least, that’s all you’ve presented.

 

[Luminous]

I'd like a "Mature Audiences Only" label for that!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

For what? The word “Abraxas”?

 

[Luminous]

For what? The word “Abraxas”?

No, for what you literally just said

There are horrible people in the world. Sometimes, they, their inspirations and their actions get mirrored in RPGs.

 

[RangerWickett]

I've got a friend who had to travel to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in secret, and lie to her parents about where she was taking a vacation, and make sure none of her friends posted any photos of her, because her parents were 'good Christians' who treated their daughter like shinola because she liked fantasy.

Magic isn't real, and if you're concerned about fantasy inspiring people to do bad things, maybe look first at all the bigoted political ideologies out there trying to convince people to commit violence against group X or Y, rather than seeing them as people. Heck, if you worry about people being in danger, go buy some hand sanitizer and wear a face mask. You'll be doing something more meaningful than fearing an imaginary monster.

Language, please.

 

[Sepulchrave II]

Does this sound familiar?
[Wikipedia]: "'These men, moreover, practise magic, and use images, incantations, invocations, and every other kind of curious art. Coining also certain names as if they were those of the angels, they proclaim some of these as belonging to the first, and others to the second heaven; and then they strive to set forth the names, principles, angels, and powers of the 365 imagined heavens.


— Adversus hæreses, I. xxiv. 5; cf. Epiph. Haer. 69 D; Philastr. Suer. 32'"

I think you'll find that Epiphanius - and Irenaeus - had a certain axe to grind, and their judgment of rival sects was a little partisan.

Unfortunately, we don't have any sources from the groups which actually venerated this (Aeon? God? Archon?) as they were mysteriously burnified in the 3rd and 4th centuries.

 

[nevin]

this is why studying myths gets so tricky. The Greeks borrowed from the Etruscans, the Romans from the greeks. Artemis for instance was an Asian diety, still a huntsman but with a consort. She turned into Zues's virgin daughter for the greeks. Other religions have been stealing ideas that won't die and changing them as long as people have had their myths.

 

[Deset Gled]

Satanism is a lot more common these days, it's the perfect time to panic.

Between the ludicrous stupidity of this statement and the insistence on including Qanon in your original post for no rational reason, I am finding it very hard to believe you are not a troll.