[Discuss] anti-state-religion

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 5/27/07, Tom Vogt <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
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> Here's an idea I just had:
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> 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.
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Religions already want to be in multiple realms, the trouble comes by the
government of said realms. Governments see only negatives to allowing more
then one religion in their nation. Religions can do many things to
hinder a nation and if the centre of belief for the foreign religion
is very political it is unlikely that the priests will help the
country as much.

It's just more hassle for little gain.

Now if there was a gain to having more then one religion, then you'd see
governments considering the option.
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