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Don't forget the woman whose son committed suicide so she created an anti-D&D group called Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons. Her group described D&D as "a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings."
checks notes so... the same as the bible?
I think the Bible fails on the role-playing game front and I don't remember any voodoo, but otherwise yeah?
No no, there's a lot of make believe power sets you can pretend to have in there.
You know as a rule I try not to judge people's actions when their mourning. No one thinks clearly when their mourning. There is a limit though and that woman found it years ago.
That she included homosexuality in that list really says a lot about her
She was religious and this is from the early 80s. It's not even in the top ten most batshit things she said or wrote. From an early 80s Christian conservative standpoint homosexuality is basically just a more narrow category or sex perversion. She was also one of the big voices in the Satanic Panic in general and considered a subject matter expert, including writing things like interrogation guides for law enforcement.
Here's a couple of examples of her lunacy:
Oh man, do you hsbg any idea how homophobic the entire world used to be? It's actually pretty progressive and understanding she said ''homosexuality'' and not a slur.