[Discuss] anti-state-religion

[Timothy Collett]

On May 27, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Tom Vogt wrote:

> Here's an idea I just had:
>
> How about we make it so that religions that limit themselves to one  
> realm suffer some penalties? Or better, the other way around,  
> religions profit from having followers in many different realms?  
> That would make multi-realm religions more powerful than state- 
> religions and give the religion leaders incentive to ignore the  
> ruler's "stay out of our realm, you evil enemy priests" cries.

Penalties I'm not too keen on, as, currently, it's difficult to *get*  
a religion accepted by more than one realm.  Incentives are great,  
though.

However, I think what we really need is some way to convince *realms*  
that religions should not be for their own personal use.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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