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<blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 5637623" data-attributes="member: 18377"><p>Heresy is a disease of religions that hold that what matters to God is what you <em>believe</em>, so that persuading someone of a false belief does them great harm. Contrary to Western experience with Christianity, Islam, and modern Judaism, most religions, including the polytheistic religions on which most D&D worlds are based, aren't like that. In most such religions what matters is not what you believe, but what you do. Brave men (and even brave women) went to Valhalla even if they believed inaccurate and whimsical folk-tales about the All-Father. The 'bad guys' in the Mahabharata went to heaven (and the hero did not) because, though they were usurpers &c, each of them was true to his <em>dharma</em>. And then there are religions in which the gods exist and cause natural phenomena, but don't judge mortals at all. And in Buddhism the gods themselves (if they exist at all) are fellow-travellers stuck on the wheel like mortals, and their very existence is irrelevant to religious opinion or practice.</p><p></p><p>Without the belief that the gods judge mortals on the basis of belief (or faith), inaccurate beliefs about theology are not a significant issue, and heresy as such doesn't matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agemegos, post: 5637623, member: 18377"] Heresy is a disease of religions that hold that what matters to God is what you [I]believe[/I], so that persuading someone of a false belief does them great harm. Contrary to Western experience with Christianity, Islam, and modern Judaism, most religions, including the polytheistic religions on which most D&D worlds are based, aren't like that. In most such religions what matters is not what you believe, but what you do. Brave men (and even brave women) went to Valhalla even if they believed inaccurate and whimsical folk-tales about the All-Father. The 'bad guys' in the Mahabharata went to heaven (and the hero did not) because, though they were usurpers &c, each of them was true to his [i]dharma[/i]. And then there are religions in which the gods exist and cause natural phenomena, but don't judge mortals at all. And in Buddhism the gods themselves (if they exist at all) are fellow-travellers stuck on the wheel like mortals, and their very existence is irrelevant to religious opinion or practice. Without the belief that the gods judge mortals on the basis of belief (or faith), inaccurate beliefs about theology are not a significant issue, and heresy as such doesn't matter. [/QUOTE]
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