Christian Gamers Guild

So, there I was, idly trying to sit down and to that 5000 word essay that I should have done weeks ago. I’m planning to write one of those pretentious essays on Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, picking out the Theological or Pastoral issues that are in the film.

The first part of wrighting the essay was to find out what the writers of the film were trying to convey. To see if the things that I pick out were intentionally placed there by the authors, or if their aimm was something completely different.

Now that you know what I was looking for, you will understand my surprise when I found the Christian Gamers Guild website. Now, I, like most gamers, had heard the rediculous notion that there were Christians that thought that D&D was in some way “of Satan”. I thought that idea had died sometime out in the eighties. When I first found the website, I thought that it was an old hangup. Something written years ago, and left to idle on the internet. I was surprised to find that the magazine is still being written (albeit slowly), and that the group has had some recent postings (December, 2008).

I don’t really need to write about how rediculous the notion is, but the thing that scares me is some of the things experiences of the users at the yahoo group. Someone lost a fiance because they wouldn’t give up gaming. Not a new result, but it wasn’t due to excessive gaming, but because the fiance thought that gaming was satanic.

It does make me wonder if there are somethings out there that I happen to think are actually satanic. Perhaps I will find them while I hunt around for things for my essay.

~BX