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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 8125133" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>Absolutely. All excellent points. Funny enough I forget that I've even read Catechism of the New Age: A Response to D&D during religious studies. It was so long ago and like a lot of religious texts seemed to bounce of the proverbial deflector shields.</p><p></p><p>Also as I mentioned earlier than 80's were far more religious than the 2020's. Its not the difference between now and say the Middle Ages but its very different now.</p><p></p><p>Also with so many people having played D&D in the 80's, it was a huge cultural phenomenon played by everyone from Jocks to Stoners, the stigma was harder to maintain and no doubt quite a few D&D tolerant or even Pro D&D people made their way into positions of authority. Things got better.</p><p></p><p>Heck even as early as 1984, some churches ran games especially of the Christian RPG DragonRaid which replaced the "spells" that gave so many the religious types the willies with Bible verses called Word Runes IIRC. I've never played it as I am not at all religious and could never find a group but it sounded fun if you can handle the proselytizing. It was still controversial though , some people feared imagination and pretending and anything "occult"</p><p></p><p>The D&D fear I think was also mostly an American thing in the developed world at least This kind of mindset is common to the culture here and occasionally crops it ugly head up even now.</p><p></p><p>Frankly while the panic had no effect on me or mine for a lot of reasons and was good publicity it made a lot of young people miserable. I'm quite glad its gone. Good riddance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ace, post: 8125133, member: 944"] Absolutely. All excellent points. Funny enough I forget that I've even read Catechism of the New Age: A Response to D&D during religious studies. It was so long ago and like a lot of religious texts seemed to bounce of the proverbial deflector shields. Also as I mentioned earlier than 80's were far more religious than the 2020's. Its not the difference between now and say the Middle Ages but its very different now. Also with so many people having played D&D in the 80's, it was a huge cultural phenomenon played by everyone from Jocks to Stoners, the stigma was harder to maintain and no doubt quite a few D&D tolerant or even Pro D&D people made their way into positions of authority. Things got better. Heck even as early as 1984, some churches ran games especially of the Christian RPG DragonRaid which replaced the "spells" that gave so many the religious types the willies with Bible verses called Word Runes IIRC. I've never played it as I am not at all religious and could never find a group but it sounded fun if you can handle the proselytizing. It was still controversial though , some people feared imagination and pretending and anything "occult" The D&D fear I think was also mostly an American thing in the developed world at least This kind of mindset is common to the culture here and occasionally crops it ugly head up even now. Frankly while the panic had no effect on me or mine for a lot of reasons and was good publicity it made a lot of young people miserable. I'm quite glad its gone. Good riddance. [/QUOTE]
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