[Discuss] anti-state-religion

[Mitchell]

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>>> Actually I think the only purpose of the Theocracy is to keep the power 
>>> in the hands of the priests, it doesn't actually say anywhere that the 
>>> priests all have to be of the same religion. (It's just the most common 
>>> thing)
>
> It would not make sense for a theocracy to be composed of multiple 
> religions. The whole point of a theocracy is to concentrate power in the 
> hands of the religious caste. Opposing religions are not going to be 
> concentrating power, they're going to be using it to oust each other.
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Ahh, but you assume that a religion and a realm are one and the same. If I 
think here, I could probably come up with an example....ahh I don't know too 
much about this, so perhaps someone could help clarify this example....In 
600 A.D. or so, the Muslims had a split in their religion...Sunni and Shiite 
(I believe). Both are Muslism, though, and they vie for power within a 
realm. Maybe they didn't VOTE, persay, for a leader, but for the sake of 
game mechanics, it could be so in BM. So there would be two religions that 
are vieing for power. Maybe it could result in a secession, but it could 
just be intra-realm strife.

~Mitchell Smallwood
Vice-President, North Laurel Leaders 4-H Club
Concertmaster, RHS Symphonic Band

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