D&D General The Satanic Panic never really died?

[Morrus]

Guess it didn’t for some!

 

[Retreater]

I'm a children's librarian. I still have children coming to me regularly (more than weekly) who are forbidden to read Harry Potter or other fantasy series because it teaches "real witchcraft." For the same reason, I avoid running D&D games in our game nights here.

 

[GlassJaw]

I'm a children's librarian. I still have children coming to me regularly (more than weekly) who are forbidden to read Harry Potter or other fantasy series because it teaches "real witchcraft." For the same reason, I avoid running D&D games in our game nights here.

Or maybe you should, so as to enlighten the "enlightened".

 

[Salthorae]

It died down... but the myth still exists in pockets and places and people.

 

[Charlaquin]

The full-blown Panic subsided, but the underlying Satanic Anxiety is still untreated.

 

[Bawylie]

“Hey everybody! Get a load of this concerned mother’s sincerely held religious beliefs! Guess she didn’t get the memo that the 1980s are over HA HA!”

Classy.

 

[LordEntrails]

Ignorance and intolerance never die, they just go into hiding by those who feel "oppressed" by their views not being accepted until they can pass them on to a new generation.

 

[Sunsword]

I'm a children's librarian. I still have children coming to me regularly (more than weekly) who are forbidden to read Harry Potter or other fantasy series because it teaches "real witchcraft." For the same reason, I avoid running D&D games in our game nights here.

It's sad, we home school and I had a fellow home school Dad nearly causing a 12 year old girl who had fallen in love with Harry Potter and reading to cry. I stepped in and pointed out Christianity isn't designed to make children cry.

 

[Raunalyn]

To which I would proclaim, "Hail Satan!" as I pull out my dice bag and D&D books...

 

[Undrave]

“Hey everybody! Get a load of this concerned mother’s sincerely held religious beliefs! Guess she didn’t get the memo that the 1980s are over HA HA!”

Classy.

These 'sincerely held religious beliefs' are also why Gay Conversion Therapy camp exist so I'm not sure that's a good enough excuse...

Point is, DnD magic isn't real. Everybody knows that but apparently not that lady. Heck, even when a spell has a verbal or somatic component the book doesn't tell you what it actually is, just that it exists. They could be Nickleback Lyrics for all we know. Meaning that even if you wanted to use DnD as some sort of occult manual, it wouldn't get you far.