Light Cleric
ElCee/LC/El Cid
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Certainly it is. If every belief was more or less equal there wouldn't be the race to found a religion like there is now.
Regarding the random chance to spawn Prophets, it's in place to prevent too many religions from being founded at the same time (eg, if three civs without faith bonuses go pottery first -> build shrine ASAP there would be three religions founded on the same turn).
There would certainly still be a race to found a religion because you still have to *get* one of the limited slots in the first place. There are just some beliefs that are so bad that not even the 5th religion/8th pantheon would pick them(Religious Unity, Papal Primacy, Religious Settlements). Being able to pick whatever you want if you manage the first religion isn't that big a deal when 50% of the options blow. Enhancing is the same thing. The AI often takes options that work for them but not the player anyway because of their insane bonuses(who need IP/Religious texts when you have 500 Prophets), so you can still get the strong beliefs.
Also, there are lots of other variables with the prophet founding. How many cities did the civs build shrines in, did they build Temples, did they meet/ally religious CSes, are they working faith wonders, did they take a faith-generating Pantheon, etc.? I really can't imagine 3 civs frequently generating a prophet on exactly the same turn with all those variables.