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RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: The Satanic Panic Comes to School
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<blockquote data-quote="MisterMxyzptlk" data-source="post: 8746274" data-attributes="member: 7037499"><p>In the early 80's I was a Freshman in High School in a small town in South Dakota. The Satanic Panic hit around then and our local newspaper had an article with the title, "Satanism Feeds on Troubled Teens". The article described the usual suspects, kids who don't fit in lockstep with the rest of the students who obey the teachers without thinking, as being open for Satanic recruitment and instead of Marijuana they decided that Dungeons and Dragons was the vector for Satan to enter your child's life. Same day, different crap I guess.</p><p></p><p>We had a regular Saturday night gaming group and we had a good time playing what was called AD&D then. Then our preachers started getting pushy. One of our freinds took a complete set of the books at that time and set them on fire because his preacher told him the books were evil and would lure him to Satan. He didn't talk to use for a year at least. Eventually he realized his mistake and came back in a very limited manner, the book burining made us all wary of his reliability. </p><p></p><p>We started to be more circumspect with our gaming, which made us seem even more like the stereotype of the dangerous loners who were going to be snapped up by Satan Worshipers. Two of us were Catholic, now that was scary for them. Fortunately they liked AD&D more than being Catholic and I dont think they take their childhood faith seriously to this day. </p><p></p><p>I was raised Lutheran and our minister had me sit down and explain AD&D to him. We had a long talk about it and he decided that it wasn't Satanic so our church remained neutral. I think he took a lot of crap for that from the more fanatic in the church for that. </p><p></p><p>Our teachers didn't care enough to bother worrying about what we were doing in our non school time to get involved in the situation. </p><p></p><p>I know that the Satanic Panic with AD&D drove the nail in the coffin of my faith in the supernatural. I suspect many of us lost our faith and walked away from religion because of those experiences. I guess there is a silver lining to every cloud.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MisterMxyzptlk, post: 8746274, member: 7037499"] In the early 80's I was a Freshman in High School in a small town in South Dakota. The Satanic Panic hit around then and our local newspaper had an article with the title, "Satanism Feeds on Troubled Teens". The article described the usual suspects, kids who don't fit in lockstep with the rest of the students who obey the teachers without thinking, as being open for Satanic recruitment and instead of Marijuana they decided that Dungeons and Dragons was the vector for Satan to enter your child's life. Same day, different crap I guess. We had a regular Saturday night gaming group and we had a good time playing what was called AD&D then. Then our preachers started getting pushy. One of our freinds took a complete set of the books at that time and set them on fire because his preacher told him the books were evil and would lure him to Satan. He didn't talk to use for a year at least. Eventually he realized his mistake and came back in a very limited manner, the book burining made us all wary of his reliability. We started to be more circumspect with our gaming, which made us seem even more like the stereotype of the dangerous loners who were going to be snapped up by Satan Worshipers. Two of us were Catholic, now that was scary for them. Fortunately they liked AD&D more than being Catholic and I dont think they take their childhood faith seriously to this day. I was raised Lutheran and our minister had me sit down and explain AD&D to him. We had a long talk about it and he decided that it wasn't Satanic so our church remained neutral. I think he took a lot of crap for that from the more fanatic in the church for that. Our teachers didn't care enough to bother worrying about what we were doing in our non school time to get involved in the situation. I know that the Satanic Panic with AD&D drove the nail in the coffin of my faith in the supernatural. I suspect many of us lost our faith and walked away from religion because of those experiences. I guess there is a silver lining to every cloud. [/QUOTE]
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