Calculus, also belief, was Re: [UA] Crosswords and Blue Teets

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> That's not really suprising.  Christianity and
> roleplaying games don't seem to get along very well,

I'm not sure if that's true. I don't think there's a lack of strong 
Christians who are also gamers 'cos Christianity is somehow inimicable to 
gaming, but because there's been a big drop-off in Christianity/formal 
organised religion in youth generally, and most gamers are youngish. 

> Why did I ask the question?  For one thing, I wanted
> to see where people on the list were coming from.  For
> another thing, I think beleif is very important when
> it comes to magic and I suspected that a lot of people
> on the list had strong beleifs (although not very
> formalized ones.)

I want to say that I suspect gamers have *fewer* strong beliefs than most 
people, 'cos we're so used to messing with belief systems and skipping in and 
out of our character's moral codes...but I think that's a dangerous 
assumption and over-generalisation....

Gar
http://www.mytholder.f2s.com

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