I think this is really sad. I still, to this day, play Dungeons and Dragons. I've never had any desire to get involved in witchcraft. I realize that witchcraft is a big problem in the modern world, but I don't see any correlation with D&D.
In my opinion, this is the adversary leading this well meaning people to attack false targets, spend their energy battling that which isn't a big deal, so they are spending that energy that which really wounds souls.

Hey ray...I hate to break it to you, but you probably shouldn't read Harry Potter either. Especially the last book. I'll let you know how it turns out.

arbilad wrote:

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 And just so you know, Ray, we won't tease you for too long when the book comes out and you're proven wrong.

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Speak for yourself.

 

Ummm...does this mean I have to leave Bountiful?  I've never read a Harry Potter book.  And I've only seen the first movie about halfway through.

I tried to play at Bountiful for a short while.  But about 29 seconds after my Drow monk joined the party, everyone just sorta stopped participating

BTW, I don't mean to make light of witchcraft. It is extremely evil. But saying that D&D is pretty much the same as witchcraft is like saying that having a large stomach is the same as being pregnant. True, many women who are pregnant have large stomachs. But I'm a man with a large stomach and I am most assuredly not pregnant.
I have met people who play D&D who are majorly into witchcraft. But the vast majority of players aren't. At least, of the ones I have met.

That website also has anti-catholic & anti-mormon stuff on it too.

As to D&D, I have been playing it with a bunch of my friends every other saturday. Lately I have even been the DM. I took a break last week though, it was too exhausting to keep track of all the stuff in the part of the campaign we are in.

It is really strange when we are playing D&D, then take a break to bless the lunch.

Honestly, I've known Wiccans and they're nice people. Quite honestly, they're about as threatening as Evangelicals. Both ascribe "powers" to the world that are mostly based in superstition and fear. As for devil worship, and the likes, I've never known it to be a real serious problem outside of rebellious teens who are trying their best to get out of the clutches of overly controlling (often overzealous religious) parents.

As for Harry Potter, I find it remarkable taht a man who reads so much and teaches fourth graders hasn't read the series. I was a hold-out for a long, long time, Roper, but when I finally did break down and read them (actually i listened to them on cd they're really good read by Jim Dale, he's very entertaining and it's great for the long roadtrip.) I was hooked. They're just pure fun. I whole heartedly endorse them, and think that you should encourage some of the your students who are struggling to read English to read them. :)

Now... onto the other drifty topic... this guy's a nutter who makes stuff up about anything that might scare an Evangelical. Hence I posted it cuz it's mostly funny, though honestly, this was a tract distributed widely among evangelicals back a couple decades ago...

Oh and it is my fault the DnD campaign failed... I just ran out of time. Someday I may ressurrect the story... it was going in such a fun direction. I bet I could get Spotted Horse to come back and read this site if I did... cuz she had the accursed Necklace of Ebonics... it gives you +2 on the Charisma but makes you speak in Ebonics. :) Hee hee...

I might have to kill off a certain drow monk, though, and see if he'll hang himself.

--Ray

Back in the 80s when I was a lad, my parents had my brother and I in a local private evangelic Christain school.  If you have ever seen the movie "Saved" with Macalley Culkin then you know what it was like being a mormon kid there.  But they used to have parent meeting along the lines of that tract.  My mom was scared to death that if we played D&D we would commit suicide if our character was killed.  She also got all concerned about Rock music and stuff.  This was back when Duran Duran was big.  We find this stuff a bit over the top but in the school this stuff was gospel.  Of course I was the guy that was going to hell because I belonged to a cult.  I knew that wasn't true so I didn't take all the other stuff too seriously.  I knew more about the anti-abortion movement and athiesm than most kids my age simply because these things were preached to us daily.  They even suspended some kids for going to a rock concert and made them clean up the school.  Others got suspended when they were caught at an after school party.  It was pretty intense.  I got accused of taking the Lord's name in vain on the playground by another kid once and go in big trouble even though I know that I didn't do it and told the teacher I didn't.  The other kid's word was better than mine.  Some of those evangelicals are just crazy seeing what I saw in that school makes me wonder about Mitt's chances getting the republican nomination.

When I was about 14, I remember attending a church fireside where a man addressed the topic "Dungeons and Dragons, Rock n' Roll Music, and the Occult."  I remember being a bit surprised after the fireside to find the speaker's wife in the parking lot selling tapes of the message.  The whole experience seemed really odd at the time, and I remember feeling a bit guilty for listening to the music I liked.  So I went home and plugged in Boston to see if I felt drawn to the occult.  After "More than a Feeling" I had forgotten the fireside and continued life as a pretty normal LDS teen.

More posts like Roper's, less like Cat's.

We should all laugh about how people are afraid of playing RPGs cuz that's funny. Fear of Rock and Roll that's funny too...

This is the humor section...

--Ray