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For those of you who keep pooh-poohing the idea that there is something demonic and occult with D&D. I can tell you I had a very real spiritual experience where a priest dismissed a demonic influence that came into my life through the game. So I refuse to accept that the game is “harmless”
 
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For those of you who keep pooh-poohing the idea that there is something demonic and occult with D&D. I can tell you I had a very real spiritual experience where a priest dismissed a demonic influence that came into my life through the game. So I refuse to accept that the game is “harmless”
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Satan can use anything, and he will use anything, to try to get people.
 
I have a group of friends that started playing the game back in the mid-80s. We still get together a few times a year when circumstances allow. I became pagan during that time for reasons that had nothing to do with the game. The rest of my friends are are still Catholic, mostly devout at that. Our usual dungeon master for most of that time went from a nominal Catholic to a very serious one during that time. Even went through a phase where he kind of flipped out and quit the whole deal after somebody told him it was evil. Fortunately, he got over that madness. So the game doesn’t seem to have altered anyone’s spirituality for the worse, and it’s been a source of relatively wholesome entertainment. Where a lot of younger guys would go hang out at the strip clubs or wherever, we were pretty happy hanging out in a basement and gaming.
 
Its a harmless game that actually encourages one imagination and to have a hobby and vice that is not sinful in itself. At the very least it could bring one closer to God since it offers a view of good vs evil and all that goes inbetween. I remember listening to a homily of a really old priest, he made the comment of how long the lines were for the confessional after the showing of the movie “Exorcist”, he was actually commenting on the value of entertainment like LOTR can have on your faith.
 
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You do realize it is a violation of forum rules to post links to anti-Catholic sites?
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I think they were doing it to point out the ridiculousness that is Jack Chick.

Anyways, I’m a D&D player, and have been all over the alignments. I’ve been everywhere from Neutral Good to Chaotic Evil. Currently, I’ve been a priestess of Nerull, and did a 180 to a priestess of Evening Glory. Two radically different gods. Just because someone plays an evil character doesn’t make them evil. It’s a game, and it has nothing to do with the occult. Of course, some people take it to far, but that’s because they have issues and can’t tell the difference between reality and fiction.

*Edit As I sit here and read my D&D books… LOL
 
CWBetts said:
For those of you who keep pooh-poohing the idea that there is something demonic and occult with D&D. I can tell you I had a very real spiritual experience where a priest dismissed a demonic influence that came into my life through the game. So I refuse to accept that the game is “harmless”
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Ummmmm, I’ve never had anything bad or evil happen to me through the game, and I’ve been playing for almost a year. I’ve been evil sorcs and clerics, too. I’ve had no spooky things happen. You can’t cast real spells on it anyway. You just roll a die and stuff happens. Same with any other game, except you play it with Gasp REAL PEOPLE (COUGHUNLIKEWOWCOUGH).

Speaking of, I never got how D&D was nerdy. It proved you had real friends. We have quite a large group.

*Edit. This post proves that I am tired and silly…
 
Eris_Discordia said:
Ummmmm, I’ve never had anything bad or evil happen to me through the game, and I’ve been playing for almost a year. I’ve been evil sorcs and clerics, too. I’ve had no spooky things happen. You can’t cast real spells on it anyway. You just roll a die and stuff happens. Same with any other game, except you play it with Gasp REAL PEOPLE (COUGHUNLIKEWOWCOUGH).

Speaking of, I never got how D&D was nerdy. It proved you had real friends. We have quite a large group.

*Edit. This post proves that I am tired and silly…
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You have been playing one year. I played for 20. It opens doors for occult influences. Since I was playing for longer than you have been alive, I would think you would defer to the judgement of one who knows the truth behind it all…
 
CWBetts said:
You have been playing one year. I played for 20. It opens doors for occult influences. Since I was playing for longer than you have been alive, I would think you would defer to the judgement of one who knows the truth behind it all…
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I have been playing, collecting, and reading for longer than 20 years and I disagree that it opens “occult influences”.

It all depends on the individual. It opened “occult influences” for you.
 
ByzCath said:
I have been playing, collecting, and reading for longer than 20 years and I disagree that it opens “occult influences”.

It all depends on the individual. It opened “occult influences” for you.
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Oh, it has opened the door to occult influences. You just have not seen them. How can one support a game that extols vice and denigrates virtue?
 
CWBetts said:
Oh, it has opened the door to occult influences. You just have not seen them. How can one support a game that extols vice and denigrates virtue?
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That is your opinion, one with which I, and many disagree.

We must agree to disagree as I see I will not win you over and you can not sway me.
 
CWBetts said:
Oh, it has opened the door to occult influences. You just have not seen them. How can one support a game that extols vice and denigrates virtue?
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One could say the same for Monopoly. Should we throw it out too, for teaching us to love money?
 
CWBetts said:
You have been playing one year. I played for 20. It opens doors for occult influences. Since I was playing for longer than you have been alive, I would think you would defer to the judgement of one who knows the truth behind it all…
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what an idiot, if it did open occult influences then it was your own fault, you know, you can just play without all that stuff, just follow the core rules and you should be okay, and don’t even think about playing the “Ive been playing for twenty years so I know more than everyone” I have a friend whose dad has been playing for at least 40 YEARS AND is a devout Catholic, its just a matter of how you choose to play and WHO you play with
 
The uninformed attitudes of many posters on this thread are testimony to the poor state of catechesis in the Church today.
 
Uninformed attitudes my butt!! I spent three years studying the Baltimore Catechism and am now studying Catholic morality which has an imprimatur AND a Nihil Obstat. the Church has no official word for DnD you IDIOT
 
ol120 said:
Uninformed attitudes my butt!! I spent three years studying the Baltimore Catechism and am now studying Catholic morality which has an imprimatur AND a Nihil Obstat. the Church has no official word for DnD you IDIOT
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But the Church does have a position on the occult. Let us desist with ad hominem attacks, shall we? Dungeons and Dragons utilizes names of actual demonic personages. But if you want to insist it is just pretend, go right ahead. I have warned you of the dangers.
 
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