Are those guys serious?

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http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

I figure you guys must know of this, but I stumbled upon it only recently. I can't decide whether this should make me weep for humanity or laugh my proverbial ass out. (it's been the latter at first)

BURN the witch!!!

 

Eh, I don't see myself any less Christian because of my playing D&D. Eh...

 

I've never really understood this. My parents and sister are Christians. I went to church until I was 16 and although I have stopped a lot of my friends are Christians. My parents were always against anything like D&D although they weren't too strict on it. But I still don't understand the problem with it - I guess perhaps if you really believe in magic etc it could become a problem. My opinion has always been that its called fantasy for a reason.

 

Back in the Dark Ages before PnP D&D or PC's our family bookshelves held the Bible, fairy stories, mythology, fiction, non-fiction, and the Encylopedia Britannica. I loved comic books. At one time or another just about everything has been condemed.
"The devil made me do it". Does D&D make you an evil person? Not IMO. Maybe you are an evil person and that is why you play D&D. If you repeat an incantation will that cause the incantation to work? I do not believe so. In fact I would be surprised if it did.

So go ahead - roll on the floor with laughter.

 

You have a problem when you try casting spells in real life. That's when and where your personality gets a kick. You can have an attitude problem as well, if fantasy supplants your real life and the roles invert, ie things happen in life than couldn't happen "in real D&D", for instance. And so on and so forth. There are people who extend worship of D&D gods onto their real life. But that's a mental problem.

The Christian problem with magic is that it involves either of the two: calling upon evil forces that may not always be apparently evil but always are evil in fact, or calling upon imaginated forces greater than God, ie potentially binding Him, which means either opposing God or going around God. Both aren't the Christian way.

I don't see any of that in D&D, at least played the casual way.

 

That site is as propaganda as it gets. I read through a couple of articles on that site and they were basically either condemning Islam or the Catholic Church in most of them. I seriously hope churches like that don't grow too much.

 

Erm, wow, that article's a bit insane. I've never been THAT upset if my character died, at most mad at the dragon that killed me .

 

You see, THOSE are the people that gives Christians bad reputation.

 

I'd like to share Scott Kurtz's opinion with you.

http://www.pvponline.com/rants_jesus.php3

 

These are the kind of people that make me afraid to go to town. Seriously, what is wrong with them? I've played D&D for some time now, and I'm not a devil worshipper. . . I think.

 

I couldn't stop laughing. I know it's a serious problem that ignorant people will believe, and will rally to have D&D banned, but the dialog was just too funny! The best lines is, "You should gather up your occult paraphernalia like your rock music , occult books, charms, Dungeons and Dragons material . Don't throw them away, Burn them!"

 

Amen, brother! Don't worry. I and my Tormish brothers will not be swayed by their pretty words and guilt trips. By all that is true and noble I will not falter from my duty to Torm the True!

 

I dont play D&D but still: lol!

 

They couldn't be more wrong! D&D led me to become very religious.

"If I make this saving throw I promise to become a monk"
(I roll a twenty)
"Yes! Um... I'll join the church....later"

And when I play a paladin I shout:
"Burn in hell heathen scum!"
When ever I use smite evil.

All of this goes to show that religion has an important role in all parts of our life.

 

What a laughable little strip. I cant believe it isnt intended to be a parody. Certainly feels like it.
That poor guiltridden girl repenting her sins. Suicide. Burning of 'occult objects'. Oh please. How cheap and simple can some people be?! Absurd. Its the kind of guiltmongering and indoctrination that reminds me of why I distanced myself from this nonesense.

 

Hehehe, this is funny stuff.
Still I believe it isn't parody AFAIK. this guy honestly seems to believe what he's babbling about - but then again, I often find the more agressive religious propaganda's rather laughable.
Still, pathetic as it is that believe *mean* this kind of nonsense, I had a decent laugh reading it.

 

chevalier, read about christianity before you talk about it... I'm a strong christian and there is no reason not to play D&D, you're just using your mind to "pretend" and have fun, there's nothing wrong about it.
And here's a thing, christians don't have a bad reputation. Christians make up 33% of the world. Christians have a good reputation, forms of catholocism and orthodox christians do have a bad reputation, but I don't see us having a bad reputation at all, people just assume they know our beliefs but they do not. That's where it all comes from. (sorry I'm ranting)
And lepin "religious" means following church rules not being faithful in god. Faithful describes actual christians much better than religious.

 

That's pretty funny. Not sure how on earth someone can take that seriously.

 

GodRules44, methinks you're picking a fight with the wrong person when it comes to religion. Chev will smite you three ways to the sabbeth.

Besides, chev was talking about extreme cases when people actually BELIEVE in the D&D gods and in reality try to cast spells and blame the failure on their lack of components (i.e. no powdered goblin finger or some such).

 

Stuff like this has been around since the early 80's (when I first started playing D&D), and the tone hasn't changed. Gotta love those religious extremist nutjobs!