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<blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 6692130" data-attributes="member: 50304">There is basically no refuge in Materialist thought in D&amp;D. The whole &quot;I don't believe in Thor, Santa Claus, unicorns, Jesus, or the Tooth Fairy,&quot; kind of flippant dismissal just doesn't fly when you're caught between magical fireballs and a a 200 ton lizard that can fly and breath lightning. So the real question becomes &quot;what is a god?&quot; If sufficiently advanced aliens (&quot;What does God need with a starship?&quot;), up-jumped mortals, and primordial titans don't qualify then yeah, you could still find atheism viable - as well as a non-theistic religion or Deism etc. However, disbelieving in one or more deities doesn't mean they (and their diabolicial / demonic counter-parts) can't use you as a chew-toy for the rest of eternity. You've got some serious concerns to address as a mortal if you have a framework for an eternal afterlife that revolves around your relationship to self-proclaimed gods and devils. If the souls of non-believers pass into the unknown, that's one thing. If the souls of non-believers get carried off to Tartarus then a self-interested and self-aware individual best find themselves a patron ... or a clever way to cheat death.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mlund, post: 6692130, member: 50304"] There is basically no refuge in Materialist thought in D&D. The whole "I don't believe in Thor, Santa Claus, unicorns, Jesus, or the Tooth Fairy," kind of flippant dismissal just doesn't fly when you're caught between magical fireballs and a a 200 ton lizard that can fly and breath lightning. So the real question becomes "what is a god?" If sufficiently advanced aliens ("What does God need with a starship?"), up-jumped mortals, and primordial titans don't qualify then yeah, you could still find atheism viable - as well as a non-theistic religion or Deism etc. However, disbelieving in one or more deities doesn't mean they (and their diabolicial / demonic counter-parts) can't use you as a chew-toy for the rest of eternity. You've got some serious concerns to address as a mortal if you have a framework for an eternal afterlife that revolves around your relationship to self-proclaimed gods and devils. If the souls of non-believers pass into the unknown, that's one thing. If the souls of non-believers get carried off to Tartarus then a self-interested and self-aware individual best find themselves a patron ... or a clever way to cheat death. [/QUOTE]

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