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From: skaeser@hr.house.gov (Steven Kaeser)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Nazi Imagary in Doom
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 17:08:28 GMT
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References: <777090004snz@sir1.demon.co.uk> <CutDqn.GFz@chinet.chinet.com> <Cuw56n.6Kx@discus.technion.ac.il> <33vfql$evj@news1.digex.net>
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In article <33vfql$evj@news1.digex.net> jburkot@access2.digex.net (moondog) writes:
>From: jburkot@access2.digex.net (moondog)
>Subject: Re: Nazi Imagary in Doom
>Date: 30 Aug 1994 14:30:45 GMT
>: I noted it too. I was wondering why ID put it. I didn't want to fall into
>: another paranoid state where everywhere are Nazis hidden. In Wolfenstein
>: it was justified, but in Phobos... well, who knows...
> The swastika was around long before the Nazi's. It was a withcraft symbol
>that just happened to be used by Nazi Germany. (Coincidence?) dunno.
>I think ID was going with the witchcraft/demon meaning not the Nazi angle.
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What is your definition of "witchcraft"? The swastica was a symbol used
by the Roman Empire and adopted by Hitler because Roman society was one that
he admired. It was not a "witchcraft" symbol as such, but an ancient symbol
that was adopted by many cultures.
The concept of "witchcraft" was (to a great extent) a creation of the
medieval church. If someone was able to heal the sick with nothing more
than herbs, the church felt they must be in league with the devil. After
all, the church preached that the power to heal came from God.
There are no witchs or worlocks in DOOM, and so far there have been no
ghostly appearances by the dead. We have been introduced to mutants that
were supposedly created by an evil (translate that to "out of control")
scientist.
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Steven Kaeser skaeser@cais.com (hm)
"May the farce remain with us, always" skaeser@hr.house.gov (wk)
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