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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1403196" data-attributes="member: 945">On the way home, I couldn't help but think of the Catholic church.  Now, in the Catholic church, I have "sinned" if I have had impure thoughts, masturbated, had premarital sex, or any of those things.  In the Catholic faith, you would need to go to confession to atone for your "sins" to have them removed in the eyes of god.  The Catholic God.Now, I am not Catholic, nor would I want to be Catholic, but that's another matter entirely.  But, if a Catholic priest came up to me and casted "detect evil", what would he get?  Let's see, I've masturbated (check), I've had premarital sex (check), and I've had impure thoughts (check).  I've even used god's name in vain, eaten pork on Good Friday, and I've never fasted or celebrated Lent.And to top it all off, I've never confessed or atoned for my sins.  So, would the Catholic Priest see me as evil?  I would think so, since in his view of the world, I'm about as evil a scourge as there ever was.So, would a Catholic priest see me as evil or not?Well, I wouldn't think so, but it does raise the question about whether or not different priests would get a different result concerning evil depending on their priesthood.  If a priest of Bane cast "detect evil" on another prest of Bane would he get a signal?  Do Bane worshippers consider themselves evil?  Does a Muslim extremist consider a Christian evil?  You betcha.FWIW, there is a spell in Bluffside called Piety that tells the priest how pious the target is in the eyes of the god.  So, in this example, that spell would come in particularly handy.</blockquote>

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