In a D&D like world, where you can have clerics who cast spells, who invoke rituals, etc, can it really be called Religion or Faith?
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Replying to @Carin_McLeoud
When one compares those concepts to our world, if they are theologians, who have active contact, interaction, and explore the divine, which>
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Replying to @Carin_McLeoud
can be confirmed as what created the world... then wouldn't that mean they're far closer to scientists, same as the way Wizards are viewed?
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Replying to @Carin_McLeoud
@Carin_McLeoud i can't actually think of a setting where deific cosmogony is verifiable rather than just being more plausible than IRL1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Carin_McLeoud but at least some kind of deific verifiability is very common, which does make faith a very different sort of beast2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Carin_McLeoud if you have a henotheistic setup, like the middle east when the Bible was written, faith = choosing/inheriting a lifestyle1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Carin_McLeoud in a polytheistic setup, to some extent it's still lifestyle (as with Greek civic deities), otherwise more choice of focus1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@Carin_McLeoud like "i feel that love and beauty is the aspect of existence that most speaks to me so i want to be a votary of Aphrodite"
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