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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7402769" data-attributes="member: 7006">But gods don't relate to their followers directly.  Especially not when their followers are like in tiers 1-3.  Clerics and other religious folk might receive divine magic, but they have no idea who actually is *giving* it to them.  Sometimes it might be avatars, some times it might be the angelic servitors of the gods.  Which means none of them have a direct line to their supreme being to get it straight from the horses mouth what the god actually wants.  As a result, people do what people do... they make their own decisions about what they think is right.  And often times they will disagree.I mean heck... how many different sects of Christianity are there?  Dozens upon dozens.  And every single one thinks they have the "right" ideas about what God wants and expects.  And even when certain individuals received direct communication from God, everyone after them still argued about the communication, generations past that then misinterpreted things, and then even got into holy wars about it.So like I said... you might run things black-and-white where a god says and wants one thing and one thing only, and every single worshipper knows exactly what that is and they all walk in lockstep to the same exact drummer to make sure that one thing is done.  The god speaks, the cleric answers with no misinterpretation.  Which is fine!  Go nuts!But don't think for a moment that every other person thinks and does run their gods in that way.  Because some of us feel that running the human (and humanoid) beings that worship those gods that way is kinda ridiculous.</blockquote>

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