Founding a religion almost useless?

[azzaman333]

When I get a start with no hunting or mining resources, and start with Mysticism I will always try for either Hinduism or Buddhism and can normally get one (Monarch). With Priesthood (likely when researched a religion tech) you get 2 more citizens in every city which is huge.

 

[Tarew]

Useless? My god no. I only play on noble and prince still (in higher difficulty levels I hear it's pretty much impossible to found one anyway) but I find it highly useful there.
In one game I founded buddhism with gandhi and then proceeded to spread that around the entire map. My civilization was quite small that game but I got a ridiculous amount of income out of the fact the every city on the continent had buddhism in it (the gpt from this is included in any economical buildings such as Wall Street you build in the Holy City btw) and I ended up winning the game easily, also because almost the entire game was peacful as everyone except Brennus was buddhist.
I agree that it wouldn't be too useful if your strategy is less focused on spreading the religion but still the extra income can help

 

[Angst]

One word: Plastics

EDIT: lol, why plastics? xD I meant shrine