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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 8020708" data-attributes="member: 83242">I don't disagree with your comments, but they are not the whole story:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">D&D (at least the D&D you are comparing to) deals with "real" provable deities.  That is viscerally different than RL mythologies and religions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You understanding of, or at least your description of, RL mythologies and religions is based on a scholarly perspective of texts / archaeology.  However, that is not how people live their beliefs. No to mention the fallacy of monotheism.  The beliefs of the everyday person are not bound by the writing in a book, parchment, or tablet. If sailor's catch is low and his/her family starves, I have a good bet he/she thinks whatever sea god they believe in is evil.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You don't have to worship a deity to believe in it or believe it is evil.</li> </ol>Also, I was referencing worship specifically which really seems to be the thrust for your response.  On that point, I refer back to point #2 - it is really hard to know how people really worshiped.  If we look are contemporary worship, there are so many different ways it is practiced you would miss a lot if you just read a few books (which is essentially all he have about antiquity).</blockquote>