I’ve been saying this for years!
FROM: http://meaningwithoutgodproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/dungeons-and-dragons-vs-church.html
Is there any substantive difference between a weekly gathering of Dungeons and Dragons geeks and Church?
Let’s find out?
- Does the weekly gathering involve getting together with close friends?
- Is the weekly gathering facilitated by one member who guides the discussion?
- Does the weekly gathering involve the use of a core group of dense and inscrutable books?
- Do the inscrutable books require multiple guides, addenda, compendia, rulebooks and explanations and to facilitate understanding of the central books?
- Do some members of the weekly gathering support an extremely literal interpretation of the core rulebooks while other members advocate a more liberal and lax understanding of their tenets?
- Do the people in your gathering use arcane terms and strange sayings that an outsider would find odd?
- Does the weekly gathering involve ‘serious’ and occasionally intense discussions of invisible and/or magical beings?
- Do the people in your group pretend that they are involved in an epic struggle of good against evil?
- Does the group’s epic struggle of good against evil involve magic and invisible beings, demons and spirits?
- Do the people at your weekly gathering actually believe that the magical beings and epic struggle you discuss are real?
If you scored 9 out of 10, then your geekly gathering is called Dungeons and Dragons.
If you scored 10 out of 10 then your weekly gathering is called Church.
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I’ve been saying for years that the real reason that Christians hate D&D so much is that when WE talk about healing with a touch, creating food and drink from thin air, converting sticks into snakes, curses, angels, magical fruit, demons, alternate planes of existence, objective and measurable morality, resurrections, avatars walking the earth, half-deities, talking animals and flames, mythological monsters, magical weapons and armor, walking on water and being granted magical powers based on devotion to a deity…. WE KNOW ITS NOT REAL. We don’t fucking go through life thinking that its REAL. we know its a GAME.
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