Dungeons, Dragons, Wizards & Religion

Kiss…

• Knights
• In
• Satan’s
• Ser­vice

Remem­ber that lit­tle tid­bit back in the mid sev­en­ties about the rock band Kiss, a label that at the time to my rec­ol­lec­tion was brought about by some reli­gious group, due to the band’s out­ra­geous appear­ance, the cos­tumes and kabuki style makeup…which the band still deny to this day…but the rock band super heroes were not the only peo­ple that had a lable attached to them, that was brought about by some reli­gious group…

If you were a kid ( or child, if you will ) and you were play­ing Dun­geons & Dragons…well depend­ing on your par­ents par­tic­u­lar reli­gious pref­er­ences, you might very well have ended up burn­ing in hell, just because you were role play­ing a gob­lin mage who just hap­pened to have a chaotic penchant.

I some­times won­der if being reli­gious means you shouldn’t be able to have any fun at all. I mean was pas­tor John just such a stick in the mud that he had to rain thun­der and light­ning down on lit­tle jimmy, who just hap­pened to play a human warlock?

Okay, your all prob­a­bly ask­ing what are you try­ing to get at uncle fanboy?

I’m talk­ing about the idea that reli­gion and the moral major­ity here in the good old U.S. of A, always seems to have only our best inter­ests at heart when they go after some­thing that we just hap­pen to like a whole heck of a lot and that they seem to despise because it doesn’t fit into their strict view of what is proper or not.

How about when we went after rock & roll music…remember your par­ents say­ing to you ( and yes even me, and yes even me with my daugh­ter! ) what is that c..p…oh, I’m sorry the word back there is CRAP!

And when soci­ety said that comics were bad for us, we even wasted tax dol­lars on a com­mis­sion and a trial!

Yes kids, comics on trial, who would have thought.…well maybe the min­is­ter, who influ­enced the rep­re­sen­ta­tive who actu­ally had Super­man and Cap­tain Amer­ica put on trial!

Okay, I know what your thinking…where is all this angst com­ing from uncle fan­boy and why are you so defen­sive today about all of this…well because I remem­ber sev­eral years back ( and in this case for sev­eral years back for me is around thirty to forty years back…) when I was learn­ing to draw by using paper­back book cov­ers of star trek fea­tur­ing James T Kirk to the afore­men­tioned Super­man, Bat­man, and Cap­tain Amer­ica comics ( to name just three! ) I had some 6th grade teacher who would con­stantly tor­ture me ( and by tor­ture I mean embar­rasses ) in class, in front of all my class mates about what I was doing, and that it wouldn’t help me in the real world, among sev­eral of her rants about pol­i­tics, sci­ence and the Viet Nam War.

This per­son was actu­ally using her world views to tell me what was right and wrong for me, thru her belief sys­tem. And peo­ple would also tell me that the par­tic­u­lar music I lis­tened to at the time I as grow­ing up, was not the right rock & roll to lis­ten too either.

What I am get­ting at here in this post is the play what you like, lis­ten to what you like, and enjoy your life more start­ing today!

Read a comic, play a game of magic or D&D with your friends, write a blog or watch an Anime series that you like!

Do what you like to do as long as it doesn’t hurt any­one, and don’t let some­one else’s notions of con­for­mity sway you from what you like to do okay.

Make your uncle fan­boy happy.