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<blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 161023" data-attributes="member: 221">Boy and i was gonna stay out of this discussion until this point <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The absence of visual sight does not preclude the absence of evidence.&nbsp; Personally I have to agree that while we do not have visual proof today Jesus never asked anybody to make a blind leap of faith concerning himself and he is not necessarily blessing those who believe blindly.&nbsp; As to the topic at hand, being deeply involved in both conservative Christianity and RPGs, I think that you will find that the majority of Christians have no problem with RPGs if you can adequately explain to them the difference between Real Life Paganism and fictional Paganism.&nbsp; Secondly, it helps to explain and illustrate that the study of a subject does not necessarily mean that one is a believer or follower of that subject.&nbsp; Indeed using the maxim that one must know one's enemy it would behoove certain people to better research the occult before lumping innocent games in with it while ignoring other things.&nbsp; For instance most people do not realize that knocking on wood is a form of primitive witchcraft, and it always annoys me when Christians do it.&nbsp; But in my conversations with people I use that in itself as an example of how it helps to know about something before you begin demonizing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wicht, post: 161023, member: 221"] Boy and i was gonna stay out of this discussion until this point ;) The absence of visual sight does not preclude the absence of evidence. Personally I have to agree that while we do not have visual proof today Jesus never asked anybody to make a blind leap of faith concerning himself and he is not necessarily blessing those who believe blindly. As to the topic at hand, being deeply involved in both conservative Christianity and RPGs, I think that you will find that the majority of Christians have no problem with RPGs if you can adequately explain to them the difference between Real Life Paganism and fictional Paganism. Secondly, it helps to explain and illustrate that the study of a subject does not necessarily mean that one is a believer or follower of that subject. Indeed using the maxim that one must know one's enemy it would behoove certain people to better research the occult before lumping innocent games in with it while ignoring other things. For instance most people do not realize that knocking on wood is a form of primitive witchcraft, and it always annoys me when Christians do it. But in my conversations with people I use that in itself as an example of how it helps to know about something before you begin demonizing it. [/QUOTE]

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