well I am still an avid D&D player and i am always searching for new adventures and Campaigns (please hold the slings and arrows) and during a Google Search i founds this little tidbit of fun.


God Help Us


Hope you find it as "soul saving" as i did

Covered about a billion times by everyone here.

God bless Chick.

Next you're gonna tell me you've never seen Tubgirl or the Every Time You Masturbate... pic.

That was a satire right?

Someone please tell me that was a satire and not what someone actually belives.

Anyone?

Ah, I forget how refreshing naivete is. Jack Chick is one of those particularly rabid adherents to the idea that anything outside his narrow area of religious interest is Evil. I betcha he can even pronounce the capital letter.

Say, that reminds me, anyone recall the dubunking of the "Roleplaying Expert" who thought all RPGs were inspired by the Devil and connected with cults?

There is a parody-thing very similar to these...religious tracts. It was put out as a REAL tract, at GenCon, a few years ago, by White Wolf. It was about the Terrible Evil of the new White Wolf game Demon: the Something Pretentious (). Actually, it was posted here, way back then, and I mentioned that a.) the preacher in the game looked really slick/evil and "Satan-ey" and b.) the whole thing was written in a style remarkably similiar to certain WW artists'.

Really, though, that's damn good advertising.

The MS3K version of that is much better. I have one good thing to say for chick tho, he hates Pencacola (sp) Bible Institute, but why i cant remember.

It's worth noting that these things are really, really old and date back to the early days of roleplaying as a hobby. One time I saw a segment from the 700 Club during the 80's (I saw it much later, I believe) which was pure comedy gold. I couldn't help thinking, "Woah, where can I get a DMG bound in human skin? Mine's just got a crappy cardboard cover which is falling off."

LOL

Is it me, or does Debbie get saved by William Shatner?

Also, that last image of the bookburning is downright chilling.

~J

Here's a working link to the Demonic Deviltry parody White Wolf put out as advertising.

Heh... Pulling. I got a heck of a laugh out of someone who, after asking why I hauled my butt all the way to Indianaplous last yead, said something along the lines of "But isnt that like, devil worship or something?" I send her that link among a few others, including Dumpshocks. A week later she had not only apoiligized, but was laughing about how stupid people are. God isnt the media great?
Now think, what would Pulling think if she took a glance at something like In Nomine, or walked in on a WW vampire larp...

Long ago, when I was a preacher, the seminary school I went to had all of Chick's comics in the dorms as reading a materail.

he's a complete and utter loon, and I used to be too. I'm glad I woke up.

I consider myself very religious. I pray three or four times a day. I read scriptures every day. I go to church on sundays, I don't cuss, I don't drink, and I don't do drugs. I have been playing D&D and Shadowrun for a long time. I knew there were people who didn't like it, but I never had any idea they were this insane.

Please, do not blame religion for this, blame people. This guy Chic is as whacky as the people he says he's crusading against. Are there people who play D&D and commit crimes. Yes. Now, replace D&D with anything else you can think of and you will get the same answer. I pity these people I really do.

Hey Shadow, I'm the opposite of you in every way you mentioned .

But, hey, here's the thing: I am blaming this on religion. It might be a misinterpretation of a religion, but if said religion didn't exist, nobody would be able to misinterpret it. The Crusades, witch-burning, and DnD-hatred...none of these would have happened without a certain religion. Not that I don't support everyone's right to /believe/ what they want, I'm just pointing out that this is caused by Christianity.

Yeah, because religion is the reason people don't like other people. It's not that religion was used as an excuse to hate, it's because religion forced people to hate.

Brilliant observation there.

For the third time: effective use of the Straw Man requires subtlety! I'm sure that once you figure that out, you could be a great politician, but...man, just work on the subtlety. At least make me WORK to figure out that you're trying to Straw Man somebody.

Clock is being blatantly obvious because it is his brand of sarcasm.

The thing is it isn't religion. If you took that away (and some countries have, Russia anyone) people will find something else, or someone else to kill in the name of.

Jesus preached peace. And while he has smitten some peoples in his time, it was for being so incredibly wicked and non repentant it is unimaginable. Anyone who hates, or kills in his name is wrong, flat out. They are using religion as a shield so that they feel better at night. People do it with the flag, religion, money, everything. Big business callously dismisses 30,000 jobs, in some cases extinguishing peoples livelihoods, because they can increase the profit margin %2. And what do they say? Nothing personal, just business. Like that makes it okay.

I am a huge supporter of freedom, of all kinds, so don't think I am trying to change your mind, I just want you to see that is not religion, but people.

...

You're missing your own point. Religion is just one more reason why people do horrid, awful things. In fact, it's one of the main reasons.

Maybe it's just to a negative God.

Shit, I could name a band that.

"Now, live, -God!"

*crowdyeah*

On a more serious note, religion isn't responsible for crazy people doing crazy things. If Jack Chick couldn't use God to denounce your DnD, he'd probably be using his particular brand of political affiliation. And so on. And if you tear down politics, religion, and any other organization that people can hate through and because of, now you've just got a bunch of angry, smelly people hitting each other.
I say let it be, it's fine, Christ has saved more people than he's wasted, I think he's a pretty good guy.

-D

no...everytime you masturbate you kill a kitten, which is like sacrificin and animal to the dark powers.....see that's all it means...

I need to get out more

Oh. Well, then I'm double-opposite.

Or, ya know, ANY school. We had an Earth Day celebration (guess what, there were hackey sacks...what a surprise ) at my campus on...well, Earth Day, and the "Intervarsity Christian Fellowship" turned it into a fucking Christ-Fest. Ugh. And they had this band playing (which was actually good, if you ignored the lyrics, which were, as is the case with almost any Christian band, the same as any pop song, with "baby" changed to "Jesus"), which was audible ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FREAKIN' CAMPUS. Thanks!

Sorry. Needed to vent about that, I guess.

Wow, I knew the Catholic church was evil, but I didn't realize they were Satanists! You know what this means? We must guard our childrens souls as well as their anuses!

I'm ok with religious people, as long as they're not the kind who wear religious t-shirts, and manage to work God into daily conversation. I mean, I like the Clash a lot, but I'm not talking about them every day.

roleplaying leads to being on the drugs, which leads to homosexuality, which leads to satanism, which leads to abortion, which leads to PBS.

honestly people, stop smoking your drugs and roleplaying demon worshippers

As far as I know greed caused the Crusades, not Christianity.
The Knights of St. John convinced the King of Israel that a nearby town had a treasure that was rightfully his, and for a 'nominal' contribution to their coffers they would assist him in recovering it.
Now, up until this violation of treaty, the Jewish, Christian and Muslim people lived in peace in Jerusalem. Everyone had representation before the king.
The Hospitalers(Knights of St. John, known today as the Vatican Army) were defeated ans as punishment of the treaty, the Muslim Sheik that was attacked invaded Jerusalem and conquered it. The Templars were able to get the King out and many innocent people, but they lost a great deal of their forces and lost the Grand Temple in the process.

Of course this is all paraphrased from the History of the Templars, so it may or may not be biased against the Knights of St. John.

Well, the Pope at the time didn't care for the Muslims controlling Jerusalem and killing Christians, so he convinced Richard the Lionhearted to get it back for him. Or so the story goes.

*sigh*