Why do the religious think fictional Dungeons and Dragons magic is non-fiction?
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Why do the religious think fictional Dungeons and Dragons magic is non-fiction?
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When grown adults can be convinced that magical sky pixies can read their thoughts, they can also be convinced of other ridiculous things.
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A) they are afraid of death
B) it's a culturally/parentally inherited thing
C) they want a sense of community
D) they want a sense of superiority
All understandable reasons to delude yourself tbh.
Being a fundamentalist Christian means believing in magic and fairy tale monsters. They believe in ghosts, demons, witches, curses, and miracles, among other nonsense. 400 years ago witch trials were extremely common in England and North America, they'd torture and kill a person if a few neighbors insisted they did witchcraft. Nobody doubted the existence of witchcraft or questioned the necessity of executing witches.
If modern fundamentalists had their way we'd still have witch trials going on right now.
Thank goodness the Catholics put a stop to that.
>Catholics put a stop to believing in miracles
based Catholics
Modern Catholics have embraced a lot of charismatic practices thanks to Latin America. Catholics are extremely superstitious nowadays, calling everything satanic or pagan just like Pentacostals and Evangelicals. Pope John Paul II even approved of the Church embracing charismatic "gifts."
I'm not even religious and I know witches are real.
What is a witch?
Someone who practices witchcraft. They exist and even if their magic isn't real, just the fact that they're trying to cast spells is bad news. Execution was the appropriate response for this kind of shit.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-sanders-prayer-circle-20160514-snap-story.html
So your suggestion witches are real is merely paranoid politics with no real physical model to back it up?
What do you want? When someone says they're a witch, brews potions, casts spells, and otherwise openly indulges in the dark arts, then they're a witch.
If they cannot move bodies with their minds alone (psychokinesis), then witchcraft is nothing more than thin air.
But even if their magic isn't real, they still think it's real. So when they try to use it to influence politics or cast curses on people, the evil intent is real. Like if someone pointed a gun at me and pulled the trigger, but it turned out they forgot to load the gun, I would still be angry. I would still want that person to, at the least, go to prison.
>people should be executed for evil intent
>plus all "witches" should be assumed to have evil intent
You're somehow even more of a schizo than the people participating in witch-hunts because they genuinely believed witchcraft was real.
>people should be executed for evil intent
Yes, if that intent coincides with an action. Like my gun analogy, attempting to murder someone should have the same consequences as actually murdering someone.
>plus all "witches" should be assumed to have evil intent
I mean I used specific examples of evil intent, but yes the Bible is clear that it is evil.
Why does witchcraft necessarily require telekinesis?
I think he means that antisocial spinsters are detrimental to society, not that people casting spells actually exist.
A hecking wiccan
This statement right here proves to me that your skin is the color of shit.
Never stop, people like you are based AF. Kinda like the atheists that believe in ghosts and magic or the normal people that have a scientistic worldview but also randomly believe in Vampires. You and they are proof that not all people are metaphysical directionbrains
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I wanna get out of my chest that ceremonial qabbalistic Magic SEEMED to me the true path of YHVH
It means that they had absolutely no faith at all that their God would protect them from evil, so they turned to charlatan witchfinders to do what their God wouldn't do.
bc they only want you to think their stuff is real.
>Why do the religious think fictional Dungeons and Dragons magic is non-fiction?
Proof of the Devil is proof of God.
"""Evidence""" of Satanism, whether real or fabricated, essentially affirms their beliefs in God, so they're somewhat obligated to instigate it. If there's no proof or presense of Satan then it behooves them to instigate or else God is next.
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They believe that all fun is sinful. They are in a personal religious war against Evil. They live in a dangerous spiritual world where there are ebil demons and devils everywhere, and anything they don't like must be demon-possessed! When all you have is a hammer you see everything else as nails.
The answer is a pretty simple one. Religious people are stupid. Why else would they believe a virgin gave birth to a magic israelite in the first century.
>Idiots ITT think the religious believe magic exists when St. Augustine denied its existence, the Lex Alemannicus and similar laws denied its existence and Charlemagne put a death penalty on anyone who believed in magic or witches.
>idiot thinks it matters to contemporary christards what a semi-heretic church father thought.
And everything you listed was per-eleventh century. We have plenty of resistance texts that make it clear Christians believed in witch craft. Even in Catholicism Ive heard exorcists say that participation in the occult can invite demons.
Americans overall are very fearful and superstitious.
Western Europeans overall are very numb and nihilistic.
It was mostly fueled by the media. Like today we still believe recycling is good but actually only about 5% of what peysend off to be recycled is actually recycled. The rest is incinerated or sent to a landfill. Recycling is a lie largely created by the media back in the 80's. They realized by telling everyone the world was soon going to be full of trash people would watch or read more of their shows or papers. For instance in 1987 the media created a fake narrative that a barge full of trash had radioactive or disease ridden trash and followed the barge around for weeks as it was rejected by landfills because of the false publicity. The media claimed it was because all the landfills were full.
Similarly the 80's the left began getting into psychology and suggesting that any woman (or child) with rape fantasies was actually a victim of rape themselves, because we all know the patriarchy forces rape fantasies in women. They also created anti porn organizations. Well when false allegations if widespread child rape and torture hit the airwaves the media spurred on these feminists to prove that satanist cults were actually giving women rape fantasies. At the same time in the same way the media was claiming that metal music and dungeons and dragons were also part of the same satanist movement for ratings
I don't understand why a lot of Evangelicals and TradCaths are more superstitious than even their ancestors. Literally everything is "pagan, Satanic or witchcraft" nowadays. People are starting to get mad about Ouija boards again for example, despite those being from the 1800's and popularized by The largely Christian Spiritualism movement. Tarot is another one, historically it's been mostly Christian or Christian-syncretic communities that play with them, but all of a sudden there's a huge backlash to it because of it's association with witchcraft.
You think these idiots know anything about the history of Christianity outside the bible? Do you think they have read about the eaely church, thr medieval church, the schism, or the reform and the wars to follow?
Fundies and Tradcats live in a bubble and the only content they consume is their leaders schizo paranoid rants about satan being out there, behind every blade of grass
Actual wizard here.
There is, for the sake of argument, about a 4% of magick which is satanic, but obv It isnt in D&D books.
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>the enemies of catholics are wiccans
>The enemies of orthodox are gnostics
>The enemies of protties are space lizards