Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)
by krapp on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:58PM
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Christianity would be so much cooler if they left in more of the esoteric apocryphal texts with wizard battles, mysticism and demon summoning, and cut out Paul's misogynist bullshit.
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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)
by mrjangles on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:57AM
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The revelations book fits this description. And we already have a religion that bases itself around it: the Jehovah Witnesses. While your idea sounds cool in theory, in practice the results is a crazy cult which no one in their right mind would want anything to do with.
Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)
by unfocussed_mike on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:58PM
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QAnon is rather like this, as other commenters are pointing out; people who believed in or amplified the Satanic Panic are present in the QAnon "faith" too.
It compares even more closely to Millerism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerism
... in that a series of prophecies has been made and not come true, and like the Millerites, Q believers have experienced a great disappointment and branched off into other further-splintering schools of belief around Covid vaccinations and The Great Reset.