Religious belief - faster or farther?

[Maxym]

I like messiah on maps where I am later to the religion thing, and facing powerful religions, but prefer to keep my own pantheon/religion beliefs. It works wonders when needing to remove enemy religions or make a breakthrough in religious pressure from outside. It helps on offense against civs with def of faith belief as getting a prophet next to their city and converting will remove the 20% bonus in it's cultural borders.

For early spreading I prefer IP by a country mile, no matter what Tommy says. I have seen it completely ovewhelm opposing religions without any help beyond initial one or two missionaries.

 

[Syailendra]

i found the answer very easy, IP is better pre printing press, while RT afterwards, and i always enhance my religion real close to researching printing press. So RT anytime.