Underwaterbob@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoStereotypical religious nutjobs in the 80s and 90s were all "The end is nigh!" Now that science supports them, they're all "Everything is A-OK!"message-squaremessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1925arrow-down141
arrow-up1884arrow-down1message-squareStereotypical religious nutjobs in the 80s and 90s were all "The end is nigh!" Now that science supports them, they're all "Everything is A-OK!"Underwaterbob@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squarefriend_of_satan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoThat’s hilarious! I remember people saying that D&D led to kids stealing stoplights, and wondering how on earth that had anything to do with satan. I also remember Frank Peretti books (This Present Darkness), and Screwtape Letters. Edit: also Hell’s Bells https://youtu.be/Eu4UWhzwRiI
minus-squareTheMechanic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoI did spend some of my childhood stealing traffic lights and street signs. It wasn’t Satan that made me do it, it was the boy scouts.
minus-squareBizarroland@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·7 months agoIf that’s the worst thing that happened to you because of the boy scouts you got off pretty lucky
That’s hilarious! I remember people saying that D&D led to kids stealing stoplights, and wondering how on earth that had anything to do with satan. I also remember Frank Peretti books (This Present Darkness), and Screwtape Letters.
Edit: also Hell’s Bells https://youtu.be/Eu4UWhzwRiI
I did spend some of my childhood stealing traffic lights and street signs. It wasn’t Satan that made me do it, it was the boy scouts.
If that’s the worst thing that happened to you because of the boy scouts you got off pretty lucky