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Subject: Re: One Christian's view on D&D games - a follow up
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 16:53:32 EDT
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> My other major concern is the way Christian terminology is used, and as I view
> it, abused; and how some satan worship symbols and signs are found in some
> D&D games.  As a Christian I personally find it very objectionable.
> Mike Andrews

      Do you find this objectionable because you believe these symbols have
a real power?  The games I'm involved in rarely get detailed enough for the
DM to actually bother to draw arcane symbols on a map or whatever.  And when
they do, I'm sure the DM just makes them up.  But for all I know, the DM
could have gone out and researched some historically used arcane symbols.
I wouldn't know the difference.  And I wouldn't care.
     I guess you must believe they have some power, or you wouldn't be so
concerned about it.  I thought only Satanists thought satanist symbols had
any real power.
    
A puzzled, but not hostile agnostic-
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Jeff Sonntag
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