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On 11/14/2024 10:55 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
> Kyonshi  <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At any rate, it is ironic see D&D go from Satanic Panic to being
>> installed somewhere in the Vatican in just a few short decades. Never
>> let anyone tell you who you are.
> 
> I'm sure D&D was played in some form in the precincts of the Vatican
> long before Baldur's Gate 3 was released.  Maybe even during the time
> when the Satanic Panic thing was raging in the US and to a lesser extent
> the rest of the English speaking world, but not so much in Italy.

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.

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-Justisaur

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