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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
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Subject: Re: 700 club vs. D & D
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 16:04:22 EDT
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[...]

Up here in Canada, we have a 700 Club equivalent called 100 Huntley St.
and they occasionally do anti-D&D tirades.  My friends who run the local
game store say that such shows are incredibly good for business: parents
ask their kids what the story is, the kids explain and show how it works,
and the next thing you have is a hooked adult.

What you lose on the snakes, you gain on the ladders.

				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo

P.S.  I also suspect that there is a backlash effect from "reasonable"
parents who are miffed at the fundamentalists and will do anything to
spite them.