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Originally Posted by Cryptica
While I agree with manitou in that you can't tell for CERTAIN whether they're right or wrong, I side with those who believe it has no evil influence. My father taught me how to play D&D when I was 4. He was raised in an Irish Catholic household, and when he moved out and married my mother, he continued to live by those values as best he could. He still taught me D&D.
Aside from being a christian, my father is also a psychologist. In his work he has been able to prove time and time again that effective use of role-playing has helped cure people from depression, phobia's, and even extreme introversion. Scientifically, he has shown it has positive impacts.
Taking all this into consideration, I still play role-playing games. As a matter of fact, I'm currently a member of a team working to create a totally new way of role-playing to help regain lost interest in TRUE role-playing, and offer up an alternative to WotC's (Wizards of the Coast) murder of D&D. I, too, am christian.
By the way, the Pope himself said Harry Potter was ok.
P.S. My last thought, I promise. I think those Chick or whatever people are the most narrow-minded "christians" I've ever heard of.
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I'm pretty much the same minus the RPG playing and psychologist parents, but it's not going to conjure Satan, just fun.
I'm a relatively moderate Catholic (conservative would be Mel Gibson, liberal would be a Sunday-only Christian) and I agree, Jack Chick is practically a heresy. Someone needs to get the Inquisiton on his ass.
Because NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition.
NOTE: Seriously.
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