And I just had to mention,

[3rdragon]

I was browing the list of legal book and movie and music downloads helpfully provided by ITS, and on one of the book places, under subject: Fantasy games, I found this:

A Christian Response to Dungeons & Dragons
The Catechism of the New Age


They want our children.
They want our future.
With remarkable evangelistic zeal, the advocates of New Age thinking have captured the hearts and minds of thousands of kids through ingenious cartoons and movies, comics and toys, books and music. Featuring monsters, magic, violence, and sensuality, our children's popular culture has been transformed into a kind of "catechism of the New Age" -an introduction to occultism.
One of the chief weapons used in this spiritual raid on our children is a game-just a simple game. It is called Dungeons & Dragons and has sold millions of copies to youngsters all over America.
In this revealing booklet, authors Peter Leithart and George Grant show just exactly what this phenomenal game is, how it works, and why it is so popular. They also provide a Biblical critique of the game so that Christians can know how to respond.
If you've been looking for a short, concise, and accurate assessment of the current barrage of New Age ideas on our children and our future, look no more-you've found it.





It's 18 pages long, from 1987. The bold text is original.
I may just have to read it.

So, do you folks feel indoctrinated?

Comments

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting that my parents were once against Harry Potter (not anymore, though), when I found out comparatively recently that my dad used to play *gasp* DnD and is not against it in the least. They're really not that strict, which is why I found their disapproval of Harry Potter interesting and just sort of shrugged if off and read other fantasy instead.

I admit, for the longest time, I didn't know anything about DnD except that it was supposedly evil, though I wasn't ever sure exactly why. I played it for the first time this summer. I must be indoctrinated now...

[spainsquirrel.livejournal.com]

That's odd. Of course, anti-HP-ness often is odd. I remember one occasion when I was perhaps 14 or 15, where I had gone to my grandma's church and was sitting waiting for sunday school to start, reading my book (because I always had a book in those days, and really had no interest in socializing with the kids in the class, who I shared nothing in common with beyond hair and/or eye color). The book happened to be one of the Harry Potter series (this was before they got big but after they were a "phenomenon." And some woman came in and yelled at me for reading HP. In Sunday school, for goodness' sake!

[3rdragon]

That's me, by the way. My Spain journal.