So motivated by the other satanic thread, I've decided it's time to share with you all the little history of anti-D&D crusades that took place in my hometown of Nanaimo, B.C., Canada. My dear mother kept all the clippings and gave them to me in a scrapbook for my 30th birthday. I hope you all find it as entertaining as I do. For those of you who didn't live it, maybe it will be a bit of a history.
A bricklayer and member of the Alliance Church, he says that children playing the game may not be able to tell the difference between fantasy and reality and is concerned that kids now playing Dungeons and Dragons may one day act out some of its fantasies, which he says include torture.
There is staggering irony in a Christian worrying about people reading a book of mythological fantasy and carrying it into their real life. He makes the best case for banning Bibles I've ever read.
I didn't get my photo taken. I wasn't part of that group (I lived in a smaller town to the north), though I did meet one of those kids when I later went on to junior high school in town. Pretty funny story about that. I don't know if it's in any of these articles, but somebody burnt 666 in the Wolfe's front lawn. This was seen as the time of evidence of real satanists. When I later met that kid and started to hang out with him, he revealed that it was him and one of the other players in the game at the rec center that had done it!
And now the rational side comes out, including my awesome mother, who is pictured and is the primary source of expertise for the article. How cool is my mom!
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