All other opposition to role-playing games seems to come from a small number of conservative Christians who object to role-playing games (and fantasy games in particular) because it encourages thinking that disagrees with the Christian worldview.
The arguments go like this:
- Because players are free to create whatever characters they wish in any setting they can imagine there is no way that a system of absolute morality can be guaranteed. That it is possible to create and play a game where an immoral use of power, sex, violence, etc., is acceptable.
- Games can be run which disagree with the biblical teaching that there is only one true God and that this God is moral, not amoral, and that most games have unbiblical views of God, the creation, man, and life after death.
- Games may include such fantasy pastimes as magic and the casting of spells, protective inscriptions, astral projection, attempts to communicate with the dead, conjuring and summoning of deities and demons, use of psychic powers, and in some games even occult alignment with demons or gods.
- By playing role-playing games adults and children are led into imagined experiences that create memories, build new values, guide their thinking and mold their understanding of reality.
The conclusion of the above points is that by playing role-playing games players fantasize about a non-Christian or anti-Christian worldview and that this encourages them to cast aside their real world Christian morals in favor of game immorals.
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