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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8837986" data-attributes="member: 6915329">The American judicial system is (a) really crappy, and nearly every American knows and understands that (the most recent polls I've seen show that over 90% of Americans believe there should be prison reform), (b) has nothing to do with the argument at hand, and (c) is not controlled by a greater god with the power of a 40th-level cleric/40th-level magic-user who rules over Goodness. So I fail to see what your point is, other than to perhaps say "Americans suck, so it's OK that this fantasy religion also sucks." Which is the definition of whataboutism and is a really bad argument.Now, would you care to answer my question? The one about what it would be called if a mortal wizard spammed meteor strike and killed off everyone in a country and also irreparably damaged the rest of the world in the process. Anyway, can it be considered just (divine or not) to commit genocide over a thought crime? Because the gods didn't do anything to stop the kingpriest during those many decades he spent gathering his power and killing people in their name, one god made an incredibly half-tuchised attempt to stop him at the very end by sending one emotionally unstable familicide who barely even got halfway there before he turned back, and then the gods only smote the kingpriest after he demanded power--power which, AFAICT, he had no actual way to get. It's not like he was about to complete the last step of the ritual that would grant him ultimate powah!!! and needed to be stopped before the timer hit 0:00. He just said "hey, make me a god so I can do your jobs for you and get rid of evil, 'k?" and they dropped a mountain on him because he was too prideful. Which, as I mentioned, not only killed everyone in the country but also killed tons of people outside the country (were they guilty of something?) and literally broke the map. Then they left the world and took their divine magic, even from people (elves, dwarfs, humans who were still faithful) who hadn't been involved in any of the kingpriest's shenanigans.Also? I am talking about fantasy religions here. I am not talking about how they compare to real-world religions.</blockquote>

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