Christian Children's Fund refuses donation from Gygax memorial fundraiser

I find this ironic especially because the same people who would agree with this ideology are the ones who say other Christians pick and choose what they want to believe from the bible, while only they are true 'bible believing Christians'. Meanwhile these types have no recourse to behave in this manner when it suits their political or social agendas.

Where's Major Barbara and her dad when you need them?

Nobody expects the CCF!

I donate about $1500 annually to CCF. This is a little disheartening, especially since one of their primary mission statements claims that they respect different cultures and religions in the countries in which they operate, and that evangelism is not one of their goals.

I'd say I'd stop giving to this charity, but then I've personally seen the impact it's made on a number of children's lives.

As someone who is very religious and is a Christian, allow me to personally apologize for the retarded, self-absorbed, disillusioned, self-righteous, arrogant, idiotic pricks that claim to believe in God out there. I feel sorry for these disgusting human beings.

Turning down a charitable donation for any reason is disgusting. This is just disgraceful.

As read from the CCF official reply:

"This decision should in no way be interpreted as CCF holding an opinion on Mr. Gygax, gaming enthusiasts or the game Dungeons and Dragons."

Hereby I declare Jim Sterling, THE MASTER OF SPIN!

Just another good "article" in your list of "objectivity", Jim

@Cyberxion

Would you have expected charitable donations from Pablo Escobar? He was a great philanthropist after all.

"I'd say I'd stop giving to this charity, but then I've personally seen the impact it's made on a number of children's lives."

No, indeed, you shouldn't. I mean, they're going to turn down other perfectly good sources of money, so apparently, they need all the "legitimate" help they can get.

/eyeroll

@daCuk:

You can't be serious, or else you're too young to understand the history of Christianity and AD&D.

Many, many Christian organizations have been condemning AD&D as "evil" for decades because of things like dealing with orcs, demons, and other types of creatures that are considered to be "evil". Many of them still associate AD&D with "the Occult" even though they really don't have anything to do with each other.

And, no, I was NOT kidding when I said that a local missionary group right down the street from me regularly distributed pamphlets and publications that the Harry Potter books/movies are evil and that you soul is in danger if you read the books. I'll never understand how "magic" by a human is so evil but "magic" by a deity is is blessed. (This coming from someone who used to be a devout Catholic!)

I'm sorry, but after seeing how Christian groups have treated AD&D over the past three decades, I cannot take CCF's "explanation" at face value.

Wow, fuck those people. Hopefully, they'll just burn in that lake of fire they so hold dear.

(BTW the Community Rules Quickie is hilarious. First time I've seen that.)

@daCuk...
yeah you just owned Sterling.

I would go on and on about how offensive this article is and how I'm about to take destructoid off my RSS reader... but I'm not going to let someone's opinion throw me off.

Honestly, Sir Jim, you've done a terrible job with this article. If Destructiod is a gaming community- then you've done a good job of trying to split off a certain group.

Eh, I'll have to take their word for it. On the surface it looks like they're just being assholes, but I can't say that because I don't know.

All I will say to anyone who reads this; be careful how you respond. If you think that this charity views the game industry as "immature", be wary that you don't act like a jackass in defending that thought. If you're wrong... well, you'll look like an immature jackass.

I can understand why they turned it down. I don't like it, but I understand. I imagine they get a great deal of money from the sort of people who still see D&D and the like as Evil. They have to be careful with their endorsements because it might end up costing them a good deal of potential donation money which, in turn, will hurt their cause. I obviously don't know if this was their actual line of reasoning, but I can see how the decision was necessary. Which is unfortunate, since it speaks volumes about how a ridiculous 20+ year old issue is still alive and kicking.

Wow. That's just disgusting no matter how you look at it. I'd have thought christian organisations would have at least grown a little in the twenty or so years since I first heard of their hate of D&D.

Jesus Christ.

Hell, people associated with Gygax's fundraiser and AD&D in general KNOW the history between Christianity and games of any fantastic nature (which is a bit stupid, since much of its inspiration is derived from Lord of the Rings, written by a very devout Christian man), so the fact that they'd at least TRY to donate to a charity regardless of its religious affiliation looks like an olive branch to me. One that the CCF just summarily pissed and stomped on. If you can take attacks from a whole group of misunderstanding people, yet still want to donate to their charity because you have a common goal in wanting to benefit children? That takes some pretty impressive character.

And CCF just waved it away. I don't think anyone realizes just how insulting that is. And what's more, they COULD issue statements, they could change their position, or they could simply say, "While we don't endorse D&D, we recognize that need is need, and what we don't agree on in philosophy, we can make up for in philanthropy."

It's saddening how many people are there who are just so afraid to actually do a big thing for a worthy reason.

@ John B

"And it has no place on Digg because it has nothing to do with kissing Obama's ass. :P"

Ha, tell me about it.

Christians like to demonize things that >sound< evil. Dungeons and Dragons just sounds so naughty, but a story (in the bible) where a guy kills a thousand men and cuts off their foreskins then puts them into a bag to bring to a king is totally acceptable by them.

@John B,

"And it has no place on Digg because it has nothing to do with kissing Obama's ass. :P"

Ouch, you got me on that one :)

Get out of the dark ages, assholes. That's unbelieveably pathetic, and makes me feel sad for human race that people like this even exist.

The fuck what?

THIS is the real reason why the CCF won't accept the donation!

I should point out that this article not about "Christians." It is about the Christian Children's Foundation, a charity group that just so happens to be associated with Christianity.

A few people ought to consider that before speaking for either side of the argument. <3