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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 1554434" data-attributes="member: 7261">I'm not a Jew or a scholar of Judiasm, which means my comments are not meant to reflect the actual truth of the Jewish faith, but a perception of it as it was portrayed in the gospels.  If I step on the toes of anyone who is a Jew, forgive me, it's not intentional and my D&D "Jewish" faith is not meant to be compared to the real Jewish faith no more than my D&D "Catholic" faith is meant to be compared to Catholicism.  That said, here's my thoughts.  The Jewish religion shown in the gospel is a very lawful-oriented one.  At the time Moses led the Jews out of Eygpt, the commandments were set down in order to prevent God's chosen people from straying into pagan faiths.  The Hebrew Scriptures makes no attempt to deny the existance of pagan faiths or that pagan priests drew power from that faith, it just shows that the followers of God were stronger because God was stronger.  Fast-forward to the time of Christ.  Israel is occupied by the Romans and the religious order of the region has become VERY lawful in an attempt to fend off the pagan Roman faith.  From the perspective of the early Christians (and, as seen in the gospels, Christ himself), the Jews had lost sight of the meaning behind the rules, making the rules more important than God.  In a sense, law became a "god" itself.  Jesus's mission was meant to shock the people into realizing they had lost sight of the truth.  Some got it, others didn't.  From a D&D perspective, God to the Hebrew people would be more of a strong Lawful Neutral being.  A strict judge and king.  His priests would revere law above all else to the point where the original edicts that included goodness would be lost along the way.  The "Catholic" in your campaign would come from a religious sect of the LN group that believes NG is more in spirit with the truth of their shared god.  This revelation would have come from their original religious leader, a man they believe to be an avatar of their god sent to the mortal realm to preach the truth, be persecuted by the LN sect, then put to death until they rose again, proving their connection with the god and their belief in the truth faith.  They long for a day (that they feel will come soon) in which their fallen leader will return from the divine realm to stand judgement over the apocalypse with an army of angels at his side.  That's close enough in spirit to the foundation of Catholicism and the gospel-era Jewish faith but still "fantasy" enough that it shouldn't be true Catholicism or true Judaism.</blockquote>

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