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

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Look on the bright side of things, now we can read about how *powerful* we
gamers are.  Isn't better to be seen an evil cult than a bunch of nerds?
;-)
    Sometimes reading Chick's stuff I am reminded of the story about a poor
Russian shetl peasant during tsarist times who subscribed to a virulently
anti-semitic newspaper.  When asked why he did so, he replied that it made
him feel powerful to read about "how jews ruled the world."  ;-)
    Keep the faith and to hell with those right wing nuts.
          Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Stryfe Mac.com <saintstryfe@mac.com>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : August 12, 2002 8:20 PM
Objet : [DL] (OT) Roleplaying still not accepted by the Right...


>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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