Learning the Dark Arts (D&D style)

Does anyone here think that playing a game like D&D is a bad thing?I've just had the pleasure of visiting this site:Chick.com: Chick Cartoon Gospel Tracts Make Witnessing So Easy!There was an artical implieing that D&D was: Now, I don't know about anyone here who has played the game (if any), but I for one have played D&D for the best part of 20 years and still concider occultism and withcraft to be in the same boat as any other belief in the supernatural.My queston to people who have played D&D (or any other fantasy RPG) is this:Has playing the game changed your position on the likelyhood of the world having a supernatural component?In this case a dark evil one.Or: Have you learnt any real magic? Coffee House please.Edited by Larni, : No reason given.

After reading that I see no other choice but to accept Jesus. The powerfull arguement won me over in secconds.

I was going to call Phat on that but you beat me to it.

Yeah BG2 is cool. Beats the shit out of Neverwinter Nights.

I like playing Clerics too. The D&D gods seem much more internally concistant than the bunch we have to put up with in reality.

You missed out finding the fate of the Demi-Urge.

I like to think we are people who read about magic and supernatural things (giants, and serpents and demons) and said"Hey that looks cool! I'd like to play a game based on all that stuff. I've always like pretending I'm a sturdy warrior or crafty wizard"Rather than."Hey! I reckon all the stories of supernatural events and character is 100% true and I going to believe it is so inspite of ZERO coroborating evidence to the contrary."I'm off to play Dark Sun 3.5!