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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
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Subject: Re: One Christian's view on D&D games
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 13:23:45 EDT
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Re Dungeons and Dragons . . .

>to verbally call out spells.  One of the characters of the game is shown in
>a publication giving the `goats head sign.'  This is a symbol used in satan
>worship to signify `satan is lord.'  My neighbor who teaches in the local
>Bellevue school district told me that the kids there are encouraged to play
>the game at school because of the belief that it helps their imagination.
>He also said they greet eachother in the halls giving the goats head sign
>as a signal that they play the game.  They don't even know what it really
>signifies.

I don't know enough about D&D to say anything about it, or its desirability
for Christians.  But I do want to say that I don't think the random use
by children of a "goat's head sign" is anything to worry about.  If someone
makes a symbol without knowing what it means, then it means nothing to
that person.  To believe that a gesture made unintentionally can be evil
is more like superstition than Christianity.  (No disrespect intended to
Mike Andrews, who raised this point -- I know he's arguing that we should
be on the safe side, but I think he's gotten a little carried away.)