Rocag said:
Raised Baptist. I do remember hearing this idea somewhere as a kid but I couldn't tell you where I heard it. Either way no one I knew presented this as an important topic people should care about.
Frok said:
Were you told as a kid that stepping on a crack would break your mother's back?
-Recovering elementary kid
Frok said:
Were you told as a kid that stepping on a crack would break your mother's back?
-Recovering elementary kid
Yup. D&D was from Satan himself. My parents were Jehovah Witnesses for a couple of years when I was around 5-7 years old. No Santa, birthdays, or saying the pledge as a kid. EVERYTHING is considered worldly or evil, except other Jehovah Witnesses.Beer Baron said:
Grew up Southern Baptist in a small rural town and never heard this. In the 80's people were very concerned with Dungeons and Dragons, which none of us had heard of until we were told how evil and mysterious it was and that we should never play it. That made it sound cool, so we probably would've tried it for that reason alone if we'd had any way of knowing what it was or how to do it.
Parents also became upset by the evil "Halloween Carnival" our school had done for 30 years, so it was changed to "Harvest Festival" in about 1991. That name sounds more pagan than the previous one to me and it had all the same activities as the Halloween Carnival, but the new name did seem to protect us from evil spirits so you can't argue with results.
That said, I think all that had more to do with the general Satanic Panic of the time than it did with the beliefs of our church or the SBC at large.
Maybe you grew up in my town. I also crack up when fundamentalists refuse to use "halloween", considering it's just pidgin for "All Hallow's Eve". Using "Fall Fest" or "Harvest Festival" just completely removes the faint sliver of Christianity still in the holidayBeer Baron said:
Grew up Southern Baptist in a small rural town and never heard this. In the 80's people were very concerned with Dungeons and Dragons, which none of us had heard of until we were told how evil and mysterious it was and that we should never play it. That made it sound cool, so we probably would've tried it for that reason alone if we'd had any way of knowing what it was or how to do it.
Parents also became upset by the evil "Halloween Carnival" our school had done for 30 years, so it was changed to "Harvest Festival" in about 1991. That name sounds more pagan than the previous one to me and it had all the same activities as the Halloween Carnival, but the new name did seem to protect us from evil spirits so you can't argue with results.
That said, I think all that had more to do with the general Satanic Panic of the time than it did with the beliefs of our church or the SBC at large.
ramblin_ag02 said:Maybe you grew up in my town. I also crack up when fundamentalists refuse to use "halloween", considering it's just pidgin for "All Hallow's Eve". Using "Fall Fest" or "Harvest Festival" just completely removes the faint sliver of Christianity still in the holidayBeer Baron said:
Grew up Southern Baptist in a small rural town and never heard this. In the 80's people were very concerned with Dungeons and Dragons, which none of us had heard of until we were told how evil and mysterious it was and that we should never play it. That made it sound cool, so we probably would've tried it for that reason alone if we'd had any way of knowing what it was or how to do it.
Parents also became upset by the evil "Halloween Carnival" our school had done for 30 years, so it was changed to "Harvest Festival" in about 1991. That name sounds more pagan than the previous one to me and it had all the same activities as the Halloween Carnival, but the new name did seem to protect us from evil spirits so you can't argue with results.
That said, I think all that had more to do with the general Satanic Panic of the time than it did with the beliefs of our church or the SBC at large.
And of course D&D is demonic. You can't mix imagination, storytelling, tons of rules, math, and dice without automatically summoning the devil
Math?ramblin_ag02 said:Maybe you grew up in my town. I also crack up when fundamentalists refuse to use "halloween", considering it's just pidgin for "All Hallow's Eve". Using "Fall Fest" or "Harvest Festival" just completely removes the faint sliver of Christianity still in the holidayBeer Baron said:
Grew up Southern Baptist in a small rural town and never heard this. In the 80's people were very concerned with Dungeons and Dragons, which none of us had heard of until we were told how evil and mysterious it was and that we should never play it. That made it sound cool, so we probably would've tried it for that reason alone if we'd had any way of knowing what it was or how to do it.
Parents also became upset by the evil "Halloween Carnival" our school had done for 30 years, so it was changed to "Harvest Festival" in about 1991. That name sounds more pagan than the previous one to me and it had all the same activities as the Halloween Carnival, but the new name did seem to protect us from evil spirits so you can't argue with results.
That said, I think all that had more to do with the general Satanic Panic of the time than it did with the beliefs of our church or the SBC at large.
And of course D&D is demonic. You can't mix imagination, storytelling, tons of rules, math, and dice without automatically summoning the devil
chimpanzee said:
Reminds me of people saying that the band AC/DC stood for "anti-Christ/devil's children".
I saw an interview once with either Angus or Malcom where they were completely perplexed how anyone could infer any deeper meaning in anything they ever put together.
Duncan Idaho said:
As a whole, no I wasn't brought up on any of these beliefs. This stuff was limited to a few families that were seen as a "little out there" in my Missouri synod lutheran churches.
We had a few guest speakers at same denomination churches in town that we were encouraged to go see and the general attitude from the kids was "lol what? Whatever. At least this got me out of swim practice."
But at these speaking events, we heard them all, peace signs were broken crosses, KISS, AC/DC, he-man, anything to do with Heavy Metal/glam rock (Motley crue, Dio, black sabbath, even the stones and the beatles) dungeons and dragons, P&G logos, cosmopolitan magazine at the supermarket, etc etc etc all things that there going to send you to hell.
Just insanity
But honestly, I was more confused when I got to aTm and found out that people believe in a Heaven of literal streets made of literal gold where they would be given a literal mansion. Nevermind a literal 6 day creation and literal geocentrism.
94chem said:
We were told that Hotel California was modeled after Anton LaVey's satanic church...founded in 1969 (it was really 1966). Anyway, who knows what that song is really about.