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From: plutchak@uwmacc.UUCP (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Paladins
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 18:23:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 18:23:16 1985
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In article <684@umn-cs.UUCP> goldman@umn-cs.UUCP (Matthew D. Goldman ) writes:
>
>**** FLAME ON ****
>
> ...why does everyone insist that Christanity is Lawful Good?  To do
>so is to ignore the rich history of murder and mayham sponcered by Christanity.
>For starters you have the Spanish Inquisition, Programs in Europe, the 
>events in Europe during WWII - read up the Nazi's were NOT the only ones
>killing 'non-desirables' the partisans killed  thier share.  
>
>**** FLAME OFF ****
>
  I believe that the key is not the actions of the Christians, but the ideal
to which they presumably aspire.  And that's as far as I wish to get into that;
if I really wanted to argue religion, I'd subscribe to net.religion!
  Anyway, in all campaigns I've been involved in, the source for paladin
behaviour has come more or less from TSR and related material, and that's the
way they seem to go.  I do agree that most people I've known who have played
paladins played them as royal pains-in-the-nether-regions.

-- 
                                   - joel 

  "The only worse than a hacker is a hacker who's proud of being one."