Well, it looks like that Dark Dungeons movie is all tongue in cheek, which is good. We've had anti-Catholic Chick Tracts on our cars after Mass on Sundays and they are... interesting. I think the organization and people that distribute those pamphlets have the best of intentions, but they are certainly off the mark on many things, such as facts.
RPG's ARE EVIL!!!
On 05/25/2014 at 08:51 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I've only just heard. RPG's are evil! It says so in a Chick tract. What's a Chick tract? Well, it's a little comic written by this guy Jack T. Chick who is a fantatical, and not too bright, Christian Fundamentalist. He's published tons of these things on all sorts of subjects and a lot of them are particularly hateful to other religions and gays. I don't bring him up to be controversal (although it will be anyway. It's just the nature of these things), but to laugh, and think seriously about shallow arguments like these. The track of his concerning Dungeons & Dragons is particularly hilarious to me as is the upcoming film based on it. (What? A film? Who puts up money for this suff?!) The tract and film are called Dark Dungeons, take a look.
This is really funny, and a little scary. It's just pure ignornance and fear mongering to promote a cause. I laugh, and then I get a little scared at the kind of people who would think D&D is a gateway to satanism or black magic.
Here's the original Chick track comic. I have to say, it's fine to help someone out of an unhealthy addiction to a game, but to suppose D&D can lead people to suicide or to a cult that believes that magic is real, is pretty far fetched to me. No one takes D&D that seriously that I've ever known.
I hesitate to even blog about this stuff, since it just promotes it more, but I think people with a brain will see the stupidity of it and laugh at it like I do. I kinda wish all this was just parody and not serious hate speak, but this is what's out there.
Whatever you do, don't give money to these projects, just watch and shake your head and get some humor from it, like I did.
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