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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7623677" data-attributes="member: 4937">Amongst committed Christians there is an neurosis that sometimes develops where the person begins to perceive in more and more things that power of Satan evidenced in the world.&nbsp; Soon thier thoughts become dominated by the idea that everything is in some fashion controlled by powerful demonic forces that are manifesting around them.&nbsp; It's bad theology even in terms of theology, and it has often lead to some of the worst evils committed in the name of Christianity.&nbsp; In even it's more benign forms, it leads to people going around denouncing Satan &quot;in all his forms&quot; and casting Satan out of ordinary benign and harmless things, a condition which becomes eventually indistinguishable from madness.I feel this whole &quot;colonialist themes&quot; has become the same sort of thing.It is not sufficient to draw some sort of a vague parallel, proof texted from a couple minor passages taken out of context, or relying on one possible meaning of a single word to show that something has &quot;colonialist themes&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yeah, finding colonialist parallels isn't too much of a stretch, but not because the documents are colonialist in intent or inspiration, but because finding a parallel between something when that's what you wanted to find and expected to find in the first place is not at all hard.&nbsp; Just cherry pick your evidence, and viola.All you have to do is ignore that the Lizard Folk in question are actually meant to be wise allies of the townsfolk, and that the PC's are intended to ultimately discover that their actions in presuming the monstrous nature of the Lizard Folk were rash and murderous, or that the Saughin are devil worshipping fish people that live under the sea and that they are most certainly and without a doubt not intended to represent any real world ethnic group.&nbsp; They are freaking devil worshipping monsters.&nbsp; Just ignore all of that.Yes, but other than that, yeah there are &quot;colonialist parallels&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just set out with a thesis first, and then find the evidence.&nbsp; Throw in some innuendo about the relationship to pulp fantasy and you are done, right?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7623677, member: 4937"] Amongst committed Christians there is an neurosis that sometimes develops where the person begins to perceive in more and more things that power of Satan evidenced in the world. Soon thier thoughts become dominated by the idea that everything is in some fashion controlled by powerful demonic forces that are manifesting around them. It's bad theology even in terms of theology, and it has often lead to some of the worst evils committed in the name of Christianity. In even it's more benign forms, it leads to people going around denouncing Satan "in all his forms" and casting Satan out of ordinary benign and harmless things, a condition which becomes eventually indistinguishable from madness. I feel this whole "colonialist themes" has become the same sort of thing. It is not sufficient to draw some sort of a vague parallel, proof texted from a couple minor passages taken out of context, or relying on one possible meaning of a single word to show that something has "colonialist themes". Yeah, finding colonialist parallels isn't too much of a stretch, but not because the documents are colonialist in intent or inspiration, but because finding a parallel between something when that's what you wanted to find and expected to find in the first place is not at all hard. Just cherry pick your evidence, and viola. All you have to do is ignore that the Lizard Folk in question are actually meant to be wise allies of the townsfolk, and that the PC's are intended to ultimately discover that their actions in presuming the monstrous nature of the Lizard Folk were rash and murderous, or that the Saughin are devil worshipping fish people that live under the sea and that they are most certainly and without a doubt not intended to represent any real world ethnic group. They are freaking devil worshipping monsters. Just ignore all of that. Yes, but other than that, yeah there are "colonialist parallels". Just set out with a thesis first, and then find the evidence. Throw in some innuendo about the relationship to pulp fantasy and you are done, right? [/QUOTE]

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