Hello,
	I agree with Joe here. One of the things that your young gamers are going
to encounter in this world, ESPECIALLY if they continue in an interest in
RPGs, is varying viewpoints. It has always been a source of disappointment
to me how few Christians know much to anything about other religions and
viewpoints, even those viewpoints held by the cultures who competed with
the Biblical Jews. 
	One of the nastiest jabs from the secular and/or pagan world against
Christianity, is the (pardon me) ignorance and lack of respect of far too
many Christians regarding their beliefs. One good example is that many
wiccans get all bent out of shape when Christians call them satan
worshippers, the wiccans stating that they dont even believe in a devil,
and that they worship nature. In this situation the well meaning Christian
instantly discredited him/herself by not knowing where the wiccan was
coming from, and showing an obvious lack of respect for the persons beliefs
in the process.
	Of course we know that wiccanism does in fact worship the enemy, they just
dont know it (and thats the way the devil wants it), the dagon, baal, and
astoreth, worshippers of Biblical account didnt know it either. Most of
those religeons were also a kind of "nature" worship, in that they focussed
on appeasing one force of nature "god" or another. Of course this worship
involved horrendous acts of perversion and often human (often infant)
sacrifice and/or mutilation. 
	I believe that if one is going to try to reach non-Christians you have to
be able to understand where theyre coming from. Nothing confounds a pagan
Christian basher more than to meet a Christian who knows about their
religion s (and isnt insulting about them) but yet retains his or her
Christian beliefs. In my experience they either want to learn more, or they
flee because they just wanted an argument. 
	Look at Rahvi Zacharias (I hope I spelled his name correctly) the
appologist (this term seems to mean that he appologizes after hes smoked
you in a debate), his great understanding of Buddhism, Hinduism, and many
other faiths, gives him emense power in his defense of Christianity. If you
can look at and be familiar with other religions, but yet see the
fundamental flaws in them when compared with Chistianity, and retain your
faith you show the world much. 

God bless!
Aaron Siddall






At 11:21 PM 6/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Zavior  writes:
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>>Also, adding 
>>shoguns could not be good since some of the sogun's practices could be 
>>considered nongodly.   
>
>Actually, wouldn't it be better to have more ungodly societies for our
>intrepid LightRaiders to infiltrate?  More opportunities to learn how to
>differentiate right from wrong, present the Gospel, etc?
>
>Joe
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