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It's always mind blowing to me to see how people are willing to watch movies with aspects of the occult and then come up with excuses and arguments about why there is nothing wrong with this.

if you think setting movies in front of you that contain things like magic, demon possesion, etc.. are not grieving the spirit of God then you need to evaluate your relationship with God.

He sees what you see and goes where you go, and he is offended and grieved by many of the things people use for entertainment.

I wonder how many young children have been lead astray off into the occult world because a bunch of naive parents thought it ok to watch entertainment with aspects of the occult.

I am so sick of all these Neo-Evangelical/Liberal Christians who oppose and shame anyone who has the decency to separate from worldliness.

Some of you people need to own up to reality and stop trying to make excuses for carnal entertainment.

 

So you go home and you never open a newspaper, or watch TV, or listen to the radio? You fully insulate yourself from the world? I agree that we should be separate from the world, but I guarantee that our ideas of separation are different. I've known lots of D&D players (yeah, I was and still am a nerd :smilewinkgrin and not a single one of them holds to "satanic" beliefs. The vast majority of them regularly attend church.

The thing is, evangelist, you have decided that certain things are "satanic" without actually talking to people who have done those things. Bit of a judgment on your part, there. Do you consider Monopoly to be "satanic," since it deals with money-changing and the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil?

As an exercise in correlation...I had a Pastor once who told me that the Lord convicted him of watching a certain TV show (Monday night wrestling), because it was interfering with his time with the Lord. I was not under the same conviction, even though I often watched the same show. Should I have stopped watching just because he did?

 

Ok, Evan, Here's your chance to make a solid argument. You often say people don't want to listen to reason and truth. Using Scripture, Facts, truth, reason....Demonstrate what aspects of Dungeons and Dragons are sinful?

Demonstrate a scriptural command that I have disobeyed by playing it.

Demonstrate how playing Dungeons & Dragons is MORE evil than reading the Lord of the Rings, which has long been held as a literary masterpiece by Christians, but has most of the same elements as D&D.

Saying D&D is "plain evil" without evidence is like saying Monopoly is plain evil.

And...Anecdotes of people who got too obsessed with the game don't count because one can find anecdotes of people getting obsessed with nearly anything, from soccer, to ping-pong, to candy crush, to internet debating...


***AND IN CASE ANY ARE READING THIS AND AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS...Here's a quick summary:

"Hey, I'll be an elf, you be a wizard, you be a dwarf...Let's draw a map on this paper on our table and pretend to go around fighting bad guys & Monsters & dragons...maybe we'll go down into a dungeon and find some treasure...and while we're doing it, let's eat chicken wings and donuts, and we'll conversations about how your wife's pregnancy is coming along, and how my graduate classes are going...We probably wont' finish the game tonight, so we'll pick up where we left of next time..."

 

Actually, many of the elements in D&D were influenced *heavily* by The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Most of the guys I knew once upon a time that played D&D used those two books as their foundation for the game.

 

This is actually really accurate. We'd often stop for so long during our games, because our conversations would wander, that we'd forget whose turn it was. Mea culpa as the DM, I have to say. And yeah, the games can last a long time.

 

So evangelist is being serious, and not joshin' us?

Then I have a serious question: How many people were actually influenced by D&D to commit suicide or murder?

 

Please define "satanic"? What do you mean? And please don't answer "of the devil".

 

Please define "satanic"? What do you mean? And please don't answer "of the devil".

 

2014 and someone is bringing up sensational claims about DD from the early 90s. Talk about needing some discernment. I might take claims like this more seriously if people were at least consistent. As others have pointed out if you going to condemn DD you also should be going after LOTR and the Chronicles of Narnia and pretty much the entire Fantasy Genre. I'll never forget the time I heard someone going off on HP because it had witches in it and then turned around and said you should read the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe instead.

 

Would Jesus buy Star Trek where the Captain has a different girl every week, and in a world where there is no Religion because the creator because he was a secular humanist. Also if you notice Star Trek is the communist utopia as there is no money. I have not seen all the Twilight Zones but I can think of one where the wife is very disrespectful of her husband "Time Enough At Last" so I'm sure if someone wanted to they could nit pick Twilight Zone apart as well.