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I sometimes play a computer role-playing game (RPG) in which my character fights creatures and retrieves treasure.

But some of the creatures are derived from Greek mythology. Is it still permissible for me to play the game?

CYLOR.

Related: While playing a computer game, may I “worship” one of the game's “gods” to help me win?

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    – msh210 ♦
    May 30, 2013 at 2:42
  • Not sure that I understand the question. You mean things like griffins, phoenixes, hydras and basilisks, etc? If so, nobody ever worshipped such things. What's the problem?
    – Shimon bM
    May 30, 2013 at 5:52
  • @ShimonbM: Excellent comment. Yes, those kinds of creatures. 1. I don't know much about Greek mythology; I'm not sure I knew that nobody worshipped them until I saw your comment. 2. Or maybe, since the mythology includes idolatrous ideas, I worried that perhaps even the non-idolatrous parts were forbidden.
    – unforgettableidSupportsMonica
    May 30, 2013 at 23:10
  • @ShimonbM You realize that two of those came from us, right?
    – DonielF
    Aug 1, 2017 at 4:30

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I asked my local Orthodox rabbi: the (Chareidi) morah d'asrah of a mid-sized Orthodox shul in a North American city of about three million people. He prefers that I not specify his name here.

He told me that, even if a game includes Greek mythological creatures, it's not a concern nowadays.

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    Can you get his reasoning and edit it in, by any chance?
    – msh210 ♦
    May 30, 2013 at 2:43
  • @msh210: Unfortunately I have too many other things on my mind. :(
    – unforgettableidSupportsMonica
    May 30, 2013 at 3:22
  • The Greek pantheon, and many others, are considered as real nowadays as snow white or Cinderella. Since the have fallen into the category of fairy tales basically, I have heard that they are for all intents and purposes not gods, for example, sayIng Zeus is not a violation of saying the names of other gods, because is effectively not a god anymore.
    – user3114
    Sep 13, 2013 at 1:04

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