Saturday, November 01, 2008

Christian charity refuses gift from gamers

I caught this and thought I should comment. Perhaps I should also mention that it's been noticed by some prominent non-Christian bloggers, too. Seems there is something possibly worse than being an atheist (from a Christian perspective).

The Christian Children's Fund was the late Gary Gygax's favorite charity (he was the father of the RPG), so the folks at GenCon Indianapolis wanted them to be the sponsored charity for a charity auction to be held at the event. Well, the CCF refused, citing the patent evil of Dungeons and Dragons, and gave up over $17,000 that the gamers raised. Fisher House Foundation became the charity, instead.

And we thought all this DnD "Satan worship" crap died off in the 1980's. Seems some folks continue to live in a fantasy world, but this time they aren't gamers. If you've heard of the "no true Scotsman" argument, it would seem to apply. All you Christian gamers are definitely going to hell! Real Christians have said so.

I don't really want to insult anyone who professes to be Christian and games. And of course not all Christians agree on everything. Avoiding the argument of who is right and who is wrong, for a moment, it still does occur to me that within the huge sphere of beliefs we find in this world, the chance that there's one and only one right "way" seems ... rather improbable. My god has a sense of humor, and is tolerant, kind, and runs a level 60 demigod in my fortnightly heroes game. He and Ra get along famously.

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