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<blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 160431" data-attributes="member: 1049">I'd dare to add that your average christian in America does have a vague distaste for D&amp;D.&nbsp; There are large swathes of the country where a more urban, open minded, level headed opinion isn't properly encouraged (if it isn't discouraged outright), and in those places, D&amp;D is already stigmatized as something different even before the witch hunts started, and people of that sort tend not to change their opinions once they've been set.&nbsp; And I'd bet people like that outnmuber active gamers by a good number.Of course, by that same logic, your average male also thinks D&amp;D is satanic and evil, and christianity only has those wackos as part of the group by dint of being the best known religion out there.&nbsp; (Granted, it is also one of the pushiest, but that's a cause in and of itself.)&nbsp; If the dominant religion in the U.S. were buddhist, you'd have small-minded buddhists and anti-buddhism gamer sentiment, so I don't see how christianity as an entity is responsible for anything.&nbsp; Socal impact aside, I don't see how being an intellectual makes one any less likely to believe in a god.&nbsp; (This being the real world, athiesm is in vogue with intellectuals, but again that has little to do with this post.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Humanophile, post: 160431, member: 1049"] I'd dare to add that your average christian in America does have a vague distaste for D&D. There are large swathes of the country where a more urban, open minded, level headed opinion isn't properly encouraged (if it isn't discouraged outright), and in those places, D&D is already stigmatized as something different even before the witch hunts started, and people of that sort tend not to change their opinions once they've been set. And I'd bet people like that outnmuber active gamers by a good number. Of course, by that same logic, your average male also thinks D&D is satanic and evil, and christianity only has those wackos as part of the group by dint of being the best known religion out there. (Granted, it is also one of the pushiest, but that's a cause in and of itself.) If the dominant religion in the U.S. were buddhist, you'd have small-minded buddhists and anti-buddhism gamer sentiment, so I don't see how christianity as an entity is responsible for anything. Socal impact aside, I don't see how being an intellectual makes one any less likely to believe in a god. (This being the real world, athiesm is in vogue with intellectuals, but again that has little to do with this post.) [/QUOTE]

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