[Discuss] Religions

[Timothy Collett]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Paris wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I think that religions have been running for some time now in BM,  
> yet it is not enough. State religions, sure, but this is how it is  
> rl too. In my country for example, any other religion than the  
> 'official' is just... ignored! We have muslims amongst the rest  
> yes, but they hardly have one 'shrine' in the capital of greece and  
> some 'temples' in the northern territories (speaking with BM  
> religious terms).

Did the government of your country get together and decide to create  
a religion whose primary purpose was to ensure the continuation of  
their power?

Is your country the only place in the world where that religion is  
practiced?

Does that religion have no real focus or purpose other than to laud  
the government of your country and make sure that all its people  
believe that it is divinely inspired and ruling by divine right?

If you answered "no" to any of these questions, then the state  
religion in your country is not like the state religions in  
BattleMaster.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners  
corrupted from infancy and then punish them for those crimes to which  
their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded but  
that you first make thieves and then punish them?"
-Thomas More