[UA] Religion

[Andrew]

Wednesday, June 06, 2001, 3:57:54 PM, Stuart wrote:

SA> Andrew wrote:

>> Do people that are religious find that it affects the kind of content
>> they are happy to put into games to a great extent?
>>
>> Andy D

SA> Only to the extent that I'm probably even more heinous and blasphemous
SA> than I would be otherwise, simply to see if my beliefs withstand my own
SA> best attempts to challenge them.

Interesting.  I'd have thought that straight on attack against beliefs
would tend to solidify them rather than causing problems for them.  If
you attack people it tends to cause them to feel that somehow they
must be right, or you wouldn't be attacking them.  To choose a
contentious example, killing a member of the IRA merely causes two
more people to take offence and join up.  In the same way, offending
someones religion merely causes them to become defensive about it and
cling more strongly.

The same should also be seen in the obsessed and mad, of course -
brining us vaguely back in the direction of On Topic. :->
Indeed, having known someone who suffered from delusions, it did no
good to attack their delusions and try to disprove them head on, they
defended them stridently and merely labelled the person attackingthem
as someone not to be listened to.
How would one try and persuade a member of the Occult Underground out
of their obsession?  Especially as they would tend to have proof that
their obsession worked...

SA> oh--Hi, and welcome to the list!

Thanks!

Andy D

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