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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8236442" data-attributes="member: 6687260">The idea that faith alone grants power (rather than the power being a reward from the deity for your faith) has always been kind of silly.&nbsp; It also doesn't make a lot of sense in a setting where the gods actually exist and you can go talk to them.What you logically would end up with is something like the Athar in Planescape who declare that since the power comes from faith and not from the gods, then the gods must be false, and the being who grants power from faith must therefore be some greater and more distant being and force.Which ends up of course with more interesting setting (albeit the polytheism starts breaking down except as multiple approaches to the the singular divine) in which religion is divided up by philosophical faiths rather than by gods.But it doesn't really make sense to have faith in &quot;light&quot;.&nbsp; What you would have is faith in &quot;Light as an emanation of the divine&quot; - and if you don't associate that divine with any of the existing gods, then obviously that divine must be something else further and greater and beyond the &quot;gods&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 8236442, member: 6687260"] The idea that faith alone grants power (rather than the power being a reward from the deity [I]for your faith) [/I]has always been kind of silly. It also doesn't make a lot of sense in a setting where the gods actually exist and you can go talk to them. What you logically would end up with is something like the Athar in Planescape who declare that since the power comes from faith and not from the gods, then the gods must be false, and the being who grants power from faith must therefore be some greater and more distant being and force. Which ends up of course with more interesting setting (albeit the polytheism starts breaking down except as multiple approaches to the the singular divine) in which religion is divided up by philosophical faiths rather than by gods. But it doesn't really make sense to have faith in "light". What you would have is faith in "Light as an emanation of the divine" - and if you don't associate that divine with any of the existing gods, then obviously that divine must be something else further and greater and beyond the "gods". [/QUOTE]

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