Is Dungeons & Dragons Satanic?

[RedXIII]

Because i remember during the eighties that there were preachers appearing on tv and stuff but now they seem to have died down. so what do you think about the whole dungeons and dragons controversy,because i remember during the controversy that Xian students at school actually took my dragonlance books i was reading and tore them up and considering the fact that the school did nothing to stop the students and suspended me for hiting them to stop them from tearing the books.

what do you think?

What say you?

[DemonGoddess]

1. No it's not

it's just a game. sheesh

[realisticphish]

2. of course not

what they had their panties in a twist over was the fundamentalist idea that magic=satanic. Same deal with Harry Potter now

[saltpoint]

3. No. It's intelligent and imaginative and fun. Anybody who tries to

scare you away from it -- punch 'em in the nose.

[orleans]

4. (smile) n/t

[opiate69]

33. re: "punch 'em in the nose."

Unless you're a cleric and put skill ranks in your intellect instead of your strength.. then hit them with magic missile.

:7

[zonmoy]

34. actually a cleric would put ranks into wisdom and hit them with

entangle or magical stone.

[Mythsaje]

5. No, Republicanism is Satanism...

D&D is a game that stimulates creative intelligence and problem solving, as well as language and mathematical skills.

As a friend's mom put it many, many years ago... "I know where MY kid is. Sitting at the kitchen table with his friends playing a game."

[RedXIII]

7. And there is some guy called Tracy Raye Hickman(SIC)

who said that dungeons and dragons isn't satanic and he is the author of dragonlance.

[Mythsaje]

8. Margaret Weis and Traci Hickman

They're right.

[unblock]

6. it drew heavily from lord of the rings. was THAT satanic?

and ya know, if it is satanic, what the hell is wrong with that?

it's just a game!

besides, every campaign that i heard about involving underworld type monsters had the player taking on "good" characters fighting the "evil" characters.

[rpannier]

9. I've been playing in a group here in Korea for four years near and

one of our members, Lucifer, says it's not Satanic.

[Peanutcat]

10. No.

[oddmanout]

11. It is a game.....

It's a freaking game...some people take things way to seriously!


:headbang:

[NMMNG]

12. Puh-lease

According to the tv preachers and general right-wing nuts everything that doesn't come from the Buy-bull is satanic. D&D is not satanic, nor is rock music for that matter. The Bible is however--it mentions Satan (by one name or another) over 100 times.

[trotsky]

13. No. But Harry Potter, OH YES.

Whatever's popular that ISN'T something Rod & Todd Flanders would be allowed to play or read, they preach against as causing all the problems with today's youth.

[Goblinmonger]

14. Well

I played D&D while a high school seminary student. I am now atheist. The connection? Both appeal to my intellect.

[grumpy old fart]

15. What's a "high school seminary"? Just curious...........n/t

[Goblinmonger]

19. Well, a little confusing, maybe

There are major seminaries (where you get your graduate degree and are ordained after completion), minor seminaries (you get your undergraduate degree and serious religious formation to prepare you for major seminary), and high school seminary programs that give you religious formation to prepare you for minor seminary or a monastic order.

Here's the one I went to http://www.cardinalmuench.org/index.htm

[grumpy old fart]

20. Thanks for the info. I had no idea!

[Zebedeo]

16. I played D&D regularly in high school in the 1970s

and I turned out OK. :) Now I am a devout Christian.

I only know of one guy that was a Satanist in high school, and he didn't even like D&D much. I'm also not sure that he was a genuine Satanist. Chances are he was just trying to get attention by doing something outrageous.

D&D can be a stimulating outlet for the adolescent imagination. Like many other activities, it could lead to negative consequences if pursued obsessively. I think the key is to have a well-balanced life.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. No, but it can get to be a silly obsession

I once dumped a gentleman friend (we were both in our early thirties) because he would get so absorbed in D&D that he would arrive late or fail to show up to dates.

[Goblinmonger]

18. Well that's just crazy

Anyone who would not show up on a date with you has fundamentals problems.

Unless he was the dungeon master, then it is different. :P

[Orrex]

21. I sure as heck hope so

Otherwise I've wasted years slaughtering all those poor goats for nothing.

If you can think of a better way to get a Holy Avenger +5 for my Paladin, I'd like to hear it.

[Feenicks]

22. Wry, but dark n/t

[Orrex]

23. Sort of like pumpernickel, then? (nt)

[Feenicks]

25. Except don't get carawayed, Scarlet. n/t

[Orrex]

26. I dread that this bread thread is dead.

Though perhaps it will rise again?

[Feenicks]

27. D'oh!

On Yeaster?

[supernova]

24. It's a game

It's role-playing, so that makes it a very involving game. But it is still a game, nonetheless.


I'm sorry your books got destroyed. Those kids had no right to do that.

[nemo137]

28. All the guys in my highschool D&D group went knew eachother from church

We always laughed at the idea the D&D was Satanic, even when playing chaotic evil characters.

[Zhade]

29. I say - why does a Shinra lab specimen ask such a silly question?

;)

[Donald Ian Rankin]

30. Of course it is. Are you calling Jack Chick a liar?

[genie_weenie]

31. Of course

we perform baby eating rites at my game! I used my +4 butterknife of disembowling last time...

[GOPFighter]

32. I can sympathize with you

My son was into D&D for a few years when he was in middle school. His friends used to come over and play in or dining room and they had a great time. I realized it was just a game. Then one summer my son went to visit my fundamentalist c'tain family back in the midwest. He took his legos and D&D books with him. Two days after he arrived my Mom called me up. She was aghast! "Did you know Jeff reads Dungeons and Dragons books???" I said sure, so what? My son said the whole family pretty much avoided him during the his visit because of that. I thought it was pretty damn mean of them.

Just remember, insecure people are scared of new ideas, and they can be pretty mean to people who are different.

[Nobody]

35. They're afraid of anything that makes people think

I've been running the game for over 20 years and it's a great way to have fun, solve problems, use your imagination, deal with outcomes you don't quite plan for, and put yourself in someone else's place for a while.

By the way, did the school do anything to the kids who destroyed your property?

(There were two kids in my neighborhood that were forbidden to associate with me or the other gamers. The parent who forbad them to play D+D with me was my piano teacher. Pretty funny, I thought.)

[LaurenG]

36. Remember in the 80's everything was satanic

Alice Cooper, Rat, free thought, all satanic. There was also a big push by some of the Churches to convine everyone that they were being picked on by the world. I liked D&D it was a blast. I wish AZ were here because I know he'd have some interestting thoughts about this.

[Strong Atheist]

37. Oh, for pete sake. Give me a frikin' break! I played D&D. It was

perfectly harmless.


I mean, look at how I turned out! :evilgrin: