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I treat D&D like any other game (Risk, Clue, Pictionary) -- I get the munchies together, get some tunes going, and have a good time. For me, LARPS is a little lame (catch the alliteration!) and a little too far for my liking. Of course, going back to the Christian issue, I think some of the people see a resource like "Deities and Demigods" and without understanding the context they freak out. I mean, the Devil himself is an active character in the Bible, his presence in the book doesn't make the book Satanic!

 

You said it all Deepara! EXactly

 

I am a devout Christian, and a Southern Baptist at that! Gasp! I do not think DnD is evil at all. I play with several Christian friends, and, as so many here have said, as long as you don't get obsessed with the game and lose track of reality, it's fine. I agree, there are quite a few Christians who see evil in DnD without even bothering to find out anything about the game. In the end, though, it's just a game.

 

If many Christians see D&D as satanic than perhaps it is organized religion that is troublesome. Obviously, this being one case, many religions supress difference. Another case being the crusades.. Religion is really afraid of difference in many cases and would love the world if everyone was the same.

Even so.. many people are brought up thinking that everyone else isnt worth the time of day because theyll go to hell and it is "your" god that they must worship to reach salvation. Salvation being many different things in different religions.

I dont want to come off as someone who is inconsiderate, just posting my opinion. Organized religions, atleast many of them, tend to be very narrowminded and just teach false truths to those who believe strongly in them. This causes turmoil between other people and religions and creates things like holy wars. Religion also causes the segregation of man.. Now this is partially societies fault, but organized religion has become a vast part of society.

Well thats my two cents.

 

Azael, you have a faulty argument. Just because one or two churches decry D&D as "satanic", it by no means means that the entirety of Christianity, or Islam, or Judaism opposes it. It is an extremely cynical, and erroneous thing to say that the religious institutions are brainwashing you to teach you their "lies" and "hatred".

If you think that this is what religion is about, then you either have only seen the very fundamentalist institutions, or simply have a skewed version of religion.

Aquela - I suggest everyone take a good look at this page.

 

Is slightly led off on more than the opposal of D&D which yes, very few churches do.

Though if you believe organized religion is so wonderful... look closer.

 

Very few churches?

Go to a pastor and ask him his view of Dungeons & Dragons. He is either unfamiliar with it or has no opinion. Unless you happen to be surrounded by fundamentalist ministers, of which there probably are a lack of in the Sword Coast.

Of course, there was a considerable amount of religious anger directed at D&D in the 80s, but I believe much of that has faded, along with the church's narrow-mindedness on other matters, thankfully.

I don't believe organized religion is incredibly terrible and must be taken down, but I will say that belief is ultimately the individual's decision. Won't delve further for fear of heated argument.

But should I look closer? I attend church on Sundays. I question the minister. I attack his arugments. I play Devil's Advocate. And not once has he given me a verbal thrashing, fiery rhetoric or anything to that effect.

[ March 17, 2003, 02:40: Message edited by: C'Jakob ]

 

A quote, 'After all, history is much more violent than a game could ever be.'
Said by the creater of the Pathwanderer system

 

I might concede the point that D&D might be the trigger for some people to kill themselves that already have sever problems. However I know that religion drives even more people to suicide, a crisis of faith has driven more people to kill themselves throughout the ages than there are people playing D&D. As I work in a mental institute I can also say that of the patients whom drugs were not the trigger for their insanity religion was. Drugs and religion is the two most dangerous things to a fragile mind prone to insanity.

 

http://www.ac2online.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6827

 

I'm a catholic with agnostic tendencies..(or an agnostic with catholic tendencies?)so I observe religous holidays but I also question my faith from to time and respect other religions. From my experience here, I've noticed Catholics either know about D&D or just don't care. Hell, my mother-in-law, a classic god fearing catholic sees nothing wrong with D&D when her grandson plays Baldur's Gate on the PS2.

I believe it's the zealous born-agains that raise the most stink about D&D and things that don't fit in God's "plan". They seem to be a bit more intolerant.

Sides, Tolkien is rife with catholic allegories. The pastor at my church found me reading the hobbit on the say and he gave me an interesting url about Tolkien and his faith. I'll see if I can find it.


and here is the link. It's kinda interesting actually
http://daisyshobbithole.homestead.com/story.html

[ March 20, 2003, 02:32: Message edited by: GabrielNYC ]

 

Absolutely. The only thing I hate more than a simpleton is a simpleton hiding behind religion, which is what a lot of the religious extremists are. I've been playing D&D since I was in junior high, I'm still a devout catholic, I am not a Satanist, and I have never run around convinced that I was the character in the game...in public anyway.