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D&D Religious Bashing

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#1
baron_the_curse
Aug 05, 2004 16:00:15 I just came across this site

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

and I can’t believe that after 30 years of D&D this misconception is still around. I believe this is around in part do to zealot evangelists like Pat Robinson who are clever propagandist. It’s insulting and very unchristian. I don’t know how many of you can explain your hobby outside gaming groups but I just let folks at work assume those “strange dragon books” I read are computer game manuals. Explaining D&D still has an eccentric stigma, either you’re a geek or a devil worshiper. Yet, there are does in the D&D workforce that are ordained priest

I posted this on this board because Tracy Hickman is such a spiritual individual. Dragonlance has a stronger Judeo-Christian framework, compare say to Dark Sun, and has parallels with Christian ideals of sacrifice, faith, and the dangers of over zealots. I wonder how folks like Hickman react when faced with those who would call him an ungodly heathen for his career choice.
#2
cam_banks
Aug 05, 2004 16:02:36 Jack Chick has been doing this for years. It's not really news, sorry to say. He doesn't have much else to do but bash anything which isn't his own kind of right-wing fundamentalism.

Ignore it and move on.

Cheers,
Cam
#3
theredrobedwizard
Aug 05, 2004 16:26:06 You do notice the 1984 copywrite date, right? This blasted thing is 20 years old.

What is fun, is to dress up as D&D Characters and hand these things out to parents at Halloween.

Failing that, we once got all dolled up like Jehovah's Witnesses and went around town passing out Chick Tracts to passersby and whatnot, proclaiming them as "The Only Truth" and "Words direct from the Lord to Some Crazy Guy to Us to YOU!!!"

-TRRW
#4
zombiegleemax
Aug 05, 2004 16:53:16 As this isn't a Dragonlance topic and as religious topics often lead to flames, I'm closing it.

*click*

--Drake

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#1 baron_the_curse Aug 05, 2004 16:00:15	I just came across this site http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp and I can’t believe that after 30 years of D&D this misconception is still around. I believe this is around in part do to zealot evangelists like Pat Robinson who are clever propagandist. It’s insulting and very unchristian. I don’t know how many of you can explain your hobby outside gaming groups but I just let folks at work assume those “strange dragon books” I read are computer game manuals. Explaining D&D still has an eccentric stigma, either you’re a geek or a devil worshiper. Yet, there are does in the D&D workforce that are ordained priest I posted this on this board because Tracy Hickman is such a spiritual individual. Dragonlance has a stronger Judeo-Christian framework, compare say to Dark Sun, and has parallels with Christian ideals of sacrifice, faith, and the dangers of over zealots. I wonder how folks like Hickman react when faced with those who would call him an ungodly heathen for his career choice.
#2 cam_banks Aug 05, 2004 16:02:36	Jack Chick has been doing this for years. It's not really news, sorry to say. He doesn't have much else to do but bash anything which isn't his own kind of right-wing fundamentalism. Ignore it and move on. Cheers, Cam
#3 theredrobedwizard Aug 05, 2004 16:26:06	You do notice the 1984 copywrite date, right? This blasted thing is 20 years old. What is fun, is to dress up as D&D Characters and hand these things out to parents at Halloween. Failing that, we once got all dolled up like Jehovah's Witnesses and went around town passing out Chick Tracts to passersby and whatnot, proclaiming them as "The Only Truth" and "Words direct from the Lord to Some Crazy Guy to Us to YOU!!!" -TRRW
#4 zombiegleemax Aug 05, 2004 16:53:16	As this isn't a Dragonlance topic and as religious topics often lead to flames, I'm closing it. click --Drake