mitsho
Deity
Beside all the arguments:
Civ has not religions, religions are theological knowledge and faith, it is something very personal. Now, what civIV has, is CHURCHES. Churches is the administration of a religion, how it is organised, hierarchical or not, what exactly the belief is, if there are priests, monks, nuns, etc. who take taxes for them and provide something for it, if there are missionaries etc. That has ritually nothing to do with what the faith exactly is. It's just the administration.
That's why Atheism is no viable alternative. It never was organised in such a way, but rather an individual belief, and thus, it represents exactly the "Paganism" thing of the game. And thus, I belief that for the latter game (up from Industrial age or so), Paganism should be renamed to Individualism, Secularism or Atheism. Fine, Done it, happy?
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Civ has not religions, religions are theological knowledge and faith, it is something very personal. Now, what civIV has, is CHURCHES. Churches is the administration of a religion, how it is organised, hierarchical or not, what exactly the belief is, if there are priests, monks, nuns, etc. who take taxes for them and provide something for it, if there are missionaries etc. That has ritually nothing to do with what the faith exactly is. It's just the administration.
That's why Atheism is no viable alternative. It never was organised in such a way, but rather an individual belief, and thus, it represents exactly the "Paganism" thing of the game. And thus, I belief that for the latter game (up from Industrial age or so), Paganism should be renamed to Individualism, Secularism or Atheism. Fine, Done it, happy?
m