Harry Potter Superstar

[jamesq]

This has got to be a hoax - nobody outside of Westboro Baptist church could really be this stupid - could they?

http://www.exposingsatanism.org/harrypotter2.htm

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_thwap_/]

Didja notice the link to her e-mail at the bottom?? I eagerly await her response to my "comments and criticisms" on her view.. (snickers loudly)

[ladyerwyn.livejournal.com]

And it was written very badly. She no write english good.

[ladyerwyn.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should say, written very poorly, instead of very badly.

Anyone else remember the furore over D&D???

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, maybe I'm revealing both age and obsolesence with that headline, but the arguments raised in that article are right up there. (equally stupid and irrational - but then again, who said that religion was 'rational'?)

More humorously, I remember one of the religious studies teachers in my high school handing me an article from the Catholic Teacher's magazine and asking me to comment on it. The next day, I came trundling into school with my D&D books under my arm so I could write a halfway unreasonable response to the idiocy of the article. To this day, I can still remember the look on Yogi & Booboo's (the VP's at the time) faces as I walked past them in the hall that day. {It dawned on me about a week later what had transpired...}

- Grog
http://www.crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/

Re: Anyone else remember the furore over D&D???

[jamesq]

We don't hear about it much anymore because I think the media is a little embarrassed by the fact that they were taken in by the tin foil hat brigade on that one. Nobody except "the bible is all anyone needs" crew still believes it, and even in that bunch it's a minority opinion.

Another reason is that Patricia Pulling (the woman who founded Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons) has been thoroughly discredited. Plus she's dead, which shuts people up like nothing else can.

The link is still relevant for what it says about the "Magical World View" which is shared by numerous critics of secular entertainment.

We can thank the Internet I think - crackpots don't give talks to police conventions and the media anymore. Now they seem satisfied to make web sites.

Re: Anyone else remember the furore over D&D???

[(Anonymous)]

While the Internet - and other factors (such as death) - have ultimately discredited Pat Pulling, there are a lot of organizations who are utilizing the Internet to spew their own uniquely bent view of the world.

Like Television and Print media, the Internet demands of its consumers a degree of critical thought - one which far to few people seem willing to actually exercise these days.

- Grog
http://www.crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/

Re: Anyone else remember the furore over D&D???

[wendy-licious.livejournal.com]

The furore isn't dead...
http://www.exposingsatanism.org/dnd.htm

Just napping.

[(Anonymous)]

Two things.

First, never underestimate the power of stupidity. Second, this kind of reminds me of the fascination we had way back in the Holt with the number 317.