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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2847678" data-attributes="member: 53">At the same time, the cleric is such a powerful resource, he shouldn't be sitting around the temple dealing with mundane issues such as bookkeeping, paperwork, coordinating manning of temples, promotions and the like.  He has godly "ummph" behind him.  He should be out spreading the faith, fighting the fight, fighting the enemies of the church and the like.When the clerics are a rare resource, then the people running things will rarely be clerics.  So, they will have their own power, because they'll have knowledge of where things are, how things are being run, etc. and that's a power in it's own right.  Sure, a cleric can cast spells that communicate "directly" with the diety (in Eberron that's a subject of its own), but deities tend to speak in metaphors and riddles.  They have to puzzle out the correct answer from the knowledge they are given.Both groups will have power.  I'm sure those groups might be in political conflict at times.  However, for both groups to operate without endangering the church will probably mean those conflicts rarely appear directly.  When they do, they do endanger the church.</blockquote>