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[immaculate_one]

This is a question I have yet to see asked on this network, though I only have the slightest hypothesis of why.

How have you viewed religion or faith from your home? Has it changed drastically before coming here, or since?

I have been thinking about this lately...

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[immaculate_one]

I am too.

Humans haven't always had the personal experience of having a god to guide them. And there are those who have turned out fine without that guidance, and others who seem forever lost.

[ She thinks back to some of those she took under her (figurative) wing, like Cyril, who didn't follow the religion much but turned out fine. And then people like the Agarthans, who were forever blinded by power. ]

[baitless]

It’s quite true. I’ve always subscribed to the teachings of the Goddess for obvious reasons, but... ultimately, I feel like many religions and individual philosophies manage to reach the actual important truths, at the end of the day. They are effectively different roads to the same goal.

[immaculate_one]

That's what I've seen, too.

I feel it will be important, given the fact that someone has told me one god has impersonated another. It's likely that they intended to lead them astray.

[baitless]

I’m not entirely surprised to hear something like that apparently happened in some other world, but it is pretty concerning... granted, people with enough power tend to attempt to play god, so I would imagine it’s something like that.

[immaculate_one]

Most likely.

So far, it seems there are many humans who are faithless, far before the circumstances that present them here. The gods that shaped their world are absentee or even hostile, so I am not the least bit surprised on that.

[baitless]

I hear that, but I cannot help but wonder if that is truly the case or if there are circumstances similar to Fódlan’s at play where the more benevolent ones are prevented from acting.

[immaculate_one]

I can only wonder. Some talk as if the idea of a benevolent god is impossible.

[baitless]

I suppose it can be difficult to believe in something like that if you’ve lived a particularly difficult life.