Hindus And Cows!

[Darkness]

You are correct. A human player can rush towards Polytheism/Hinduism, before Buddhism is founded...but with that important exception, an A.I. player always founds Buddhism as the very first "religion". Buddhism should come around much later in the game.

Which is NOT true!

I've only played two games so far (working on no.3), but in the second game Saladin founded hinduism two turns before Huayna Capac founded Buddhism. Both were AI's. (I was Alexander, so I didn't go for an early religion).

 

[riot_girl]

Evloliving religions would be neat, were one may start out with some thing like Shamanism, then you latter discover judisim or some thing.

 

[WackenOpenAir]

Evloliving religions would be neat, were one may start out with some thing like Shamanism, then you latter discover judisim or some thing.

Evolving religion might upset religious people too much. I don't think they believe in evolution, neither in species, nor in religions

 

[petey]

A neat mod might be that whichever civ generates the Great Scientist named Charles Darwin has all the Christian civilizations automatically go to war with them.

 

[riot_girl]

A neat mod might be that whichever civ generates the Great Scientist named Charles Darwin has all the Christian civilizations automatically go to war with them.

I LOVE THAT! you get a hug *hugs*

 

[oagersnap]

A neat mod might be that whichever civ generates the Great Scientist named Charles Darwin has all the Christian civilizations automatically go to war with them.

Not all chistians are fundamental creationists. I'm christian, but I believe in evoluton...

 

[lightnng]

Hindus on EARTH don't eat cows. Hindus in a Civ4 game could be all about eating beef as a worshipping ritual. And in another game they could be monotheistic. Hinduism was used because the WORD is familiar, not because the RELIGION is familiar.

 

[EdwardTking]

A neat mod might be that whichever civ generates the Great Scientist named Charles Darwin has all the Christian civilizations automatically go to war with them.

Charles Darwin was a Christian.

 

[Covert22]

Yesss...Introducing the term "Jews" in this thread was "delicate", to say the least.

am i the only person who took at least a little bit of sadistic pleasure wiping a 'certain' religion from the map once upon a game?

 

[BeefontheBone]

Yes, yes you are.

Charles Darwin was a Christian.

In fact he trained as a pastor (? - something-or-other) when he was young. You're slightly skirting round the fact that his own work led him to question his faith and that he died an agnostic, there, but the fact remains that an acceptance of scientific reasoning and evolution in particular is not incompatible with Christian beliefs and a Christian life. It is, however, incompatible with a LITERAL interpretation of everything in the bible (which immediately leads to problems since it contradicts itself). That would also lead one to mysogyny and homophobia among other things, which is why most rightminded (as opposed to right-minded) people don't do so.

 

[Sorceresss]

[Replying to Sorceresss, when she wrote : "Yesss...Introducing the term "Jews" in this thread was "delicate", to say the least."]

am i the only person who took at least a little bit of sadistic pleasure wiping a 'certain' religion from the map once upon a game?

Your gas tank is obviously leaking.

 

[Xarlak]

Not all chistians are fundamental creationists. I'm christian, but I believe in evoluton...

Heck, the Catholic church has been one of the biggest *proponents* of evolution. It's only the extreme fanatics that have issues with evolution.

 

[The Tollan]

I may be wrong, but i do believe that there is a benefit from no religion, the other civs wont hate you for it... they may not love you, but they won't hate you. And at end game free religion is about the same with a few more benefits, so atheism does have advantages.

Is your civilization's government really atheist if you do not have a state religion? It seems possible that your civilization is either animistic or polytheistic (if you have polytheism) if you do not have a state religion set. It could be possible to have the state involved in some religious ideas and rituals yet not have an exact single state religion per se. It could have a degree of pluarlism or it could be based on a mixture of diverse pagan or animistic ideas. The free religion option is somewhat different from this concept.

I have not seen any evidence yet to indicate what lacking a state religion represents though (perhaps left to the imagination).