Re: Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] It’s Canon: Baldur’s Gate 3 Brings D&D To The Vatican

Justisaur  <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know that it was Catholics going after D&D.  BADD was
popularized by evangelicals - specifically the TV kind.  Jack Chick was
was some very weird offshoot of Baptist.

While I agree the loudest voices in the Satanic panic were funamentalist
Protestants, it was more a cultural thing than a religious one.
Even atheists would have been caught up in the panic.  You didn't need to
believe in Satan to believe that there actually were Satanic cults running
around molesting children, and that D&D could be a gateway to that.

But as a cultural thing it didn't really spread far in the non-English
speaking world.  So while there would have been plenty of American
Catholics concerned about people playing D&D, I doubt there would've
been anyone in the Vatican who would've admonished some young curate or
Swiss Guard member for playing D&D or a video game based on it.
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