[Discuss] Another Take on Religion

[psymann]

Tom wrote:
> Maybe we should just abandon it.
> 
> Very few 
> of us can really "feel" what religion meant to someone of the time.

I might agree with this.  I've already found it's difficult to RP 
religion as it's difficult for me to know how anyone sees religion 
before the days of modern science.  I can try, but that whole "fear of 
god" thing is hard to replicate I think.

But the religion does provide many good things - if done in the right 
way, it could provide trans-realm communication, arguments between realm 
and religion over money/power, be quite different from knight yet still 
be influential in the front lines, etc.

While I agree with the problem of religion you mention, it has many good 
things that it would be bad to lose.  So in the short-term, I'd like to 
keep religion, but in the long-term, I might be in favour of replacing 
it with a different thing entirely which covered the same good aspects 
in an easier-to-get-involved-in kind of way.  Thing is, I can't 
immediately think of anything suitable as a replacement... maybe some 
sort of guerilla warfare or something, though that's back to fighting 
again, but might work...

But I'm sure that there are some good religions that would hate to be 
destroyed, so would be difficult to just remove religion...

psymann


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