Hi Dark, Oh, I definitely don't take those sorts of religious people seriously. Mainly because its usually a lot of misinformed and extremely ridiculous suppositions based on stereotypes. I know people like that, my in-laws are some of them, and their opinions are usually groundless. Especially, when you think of the kinds of ridiculous things they believe in.
For example, I remember my in-laws made deviled eggs for a cookout one year, and I asked for a deviled egg. I was told very sternly not to call them deviled eggs by my in-laws because using the word devil in their presents was very offensive. Good Christians don't use words like that in their house, and they went on and on giving me some religious lecture over deviled eggs or pickled eggs if you prefer. Another time my wife and I picked up a box of cake mix, and her mother had a fit because it was a Devil's food cake mix. We had to take it back and exchange it, because she refused to bake the cake. She refused because she believed it was Satanic. Obviously, people who are that extreme that won't call pickled eggs "deviled eggs" and bake a cake because it says "Devil's Food Cake"have an extremely low opinion of Harry Potter, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, and probably a hundred of other things they have religious biases against. No amount of rational discussion explaining Darth Maul is not the devil but an alien Sith Warrior or that people who play Dungeons and Dragons are not Satan worshipers will sway them from their opinions. People like that don't know, don't wanna know, don't care to know the truth. All they care about is hanging onto their religious biases, and therefore no rational person should take them too seriously. Unfortunately, it is people like that who make it bad on other Christians and other religious groups. I certainly know not everyone who calls himself or herself a Christian are quite that extreme, but I certainly don't enjoy being around people who consistently tell me I'm going to hell just because I play roll playing games or read books or listen to movies they don't like because of their religious views. So I just brush them off. The only reason I mentioned it in the first place is to point out the kinds of misinformed and far fetched ideas some people have about roll playing games. Cheers! On 6/18/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > Well I've never really taken that brand of christian seriously anyway, sinse > > the amount of things they say are some how connected with satan, ---- from > the internet to star trek to people who are gay is just ridiculous, so I > wouldn't particularly pay that much attention to their opinions of rp, sinse > > their opinions about so many things just are a bunch of ill informed > rubbish. > > Even among the more reasonable though, I've noticed tabletop rp is not very > > well understood for some reason. As an example, my brother's uni society was > > called the gaming society. On one occasion, one of their meetings was > interupted by a massive load of anti fox hunting protesters who had the > crazy idea that "gaming" meant hunting! > > Needless to say they backed out looking pretty stupid when they saw people's > > rp dice, rule books etc. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
