{"id":771,"date":"2009-08-07T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2009-08-07T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:47:33","slug":"30-christian-attacks-against-role-playing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"30: Christian Attacks Against Role-Playing Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[irrelig]Ah, youthful memories of gamemaster screens, weirdly-shaped dice, cheetohs, and a tableful of nerds. To hear it from the fundie Christian perspective, it was all about recruiting new witches into the coven, casting real spells, summoning demons as if they were Pizza Hut delivery boys, and playing with forces of darkness beyond our mortal ken. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/podcasts\/rpg.m4a\"><b>In our latest podcast<\/b><\/a>, we talk about our RPG memories, the history of RPGs, and the strange fascination certain evangelical Christians had with our weird little hobby.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we discover Jack Chick&#8217;s illicit desire for bondage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[irrelig]Ah, youthful memories of gamemaster screens, weirdly-shaped dice, cheetohs, and a tableful of nerds. To hear it from the fundie Christian perspective, it was all about recruiting new witches into the coven, casting real spells, summoning demons as if they were Pizza Hut delivery boys, and playing with forces of darkness beyond our mortal ken. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}