[DL] (OT) Roleplaying still not accepted by the Right...

["Stryfe Mac.com" <saintstryfe@mac.com>]

Heya'll...

I was searching around a few sites, and a stray click brought me to this
site:

http://www.chick.com/bc/2002/dnd.asp

People who enjoy low comedy know this is Jack Chick's site... He writes
Christian tracts, those small pamphlets that people give out in an attempt
to convert other people to their faiths.

This little column - called "Battle Cry" - speaks about how DnD, and thus
role-playing games, are a "...kind of spiritual lust...It is, however
subtle, an itch for power."

The line in this piece that truly sets me off is "This is not just chess,
football or bridge. This is a game that envelops the player in an entirely
different fantasy world in which the power of magic and violence is
pervasive."

In a world of Religious Violence, where groups kill others because of words
in a book (and I note the bottom, where it calls Wicca "Satan's Little White
Lie"), where Christians kill Muslims, Muslims kill Jews, Jews kill Muslims,
Christians kill other Christians, that we are called the ones with a world
where violence is pervasive.

This problem shows badly on all of us. We all, as gamers, look like we're
part of a cult or conspiracy when these kinds of lies are shot at us by
people who can't see the stick in their eye.

Someone pointed to me why I got so wound-up by this... I'm the president of
a Role-playing club on my College Campus. When I have to go to the College
Panel, what's the first question I get?

"Are you a Satanist Organization?"

I quickly dismissed all points to this...

What do we do? I don't know. But this infuriated me enough that I felt it
was worth mentioning. The people on this list are intelligent, and care for
their games. I think, as people who enjoy this activity, it's our job to
speak up and break the ring of ignorance which makes these misconceptions
reoccur.

Thanks for listening,
Stryfe.

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