[Discuss] Another Take on Religion

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 11/27/07, Tom <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/26/2007 05:47 PM, psymann wrote:
> > 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...
> >
>
> We could re-work religion.
>
>
> BM _is_ a fantasy game. A low-fantasy one, but nevertheless.
>
>
> The gods could be real. Religion could be linked to actual gods
> (different religions for the same god are no problem, they would be
> different interpretations or aspects). That would solve the whole
> "belief" problem. We would have to establish what, exactly, gods are.
> Something along the lines of nordic or ancient greek myth would probably
> be best - very powerful beings, but none of the "omnipotent,
> omnipresent, omniscient" bullshit.
>
> > But I'm sure that there are some good religions that would hate to be
> > destroyed, so would be difficult to just remove religion...
> >
>
> We could very well model the gods after the existing religions in some
> cases.
>
>
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I have to think on this in detail, but off the top of my head I have a few
points to raise.

First what about faiths that have no Gods? Those that focus on self and
such.

Second making gods will limit the over all creativity we might see.
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