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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1232889" data-attributes="member: 8439">well, I'm still reading it...I'm not sure I see the problem. Even assuming clerics would use divination spells to settle moral questions as opposed to factual ones, there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't end up getting their own judgement back either subconsiously or on purpose (because who is really gonna tell the high priest that he didn't have the vision he says he had?) A cleric who truely believes that he is channelling his god's power is not even going to try to raise someone who his faith says is unworthy, and if he is pushed into it would probably fail. The situation you mentioned where clerics had no direct contact with their gods but got spells based on faith would work just as well if the gods had never existed... As for gods taking an active role... As Carl Sagan said, "We know that people do hallucinate."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Kahuna burger</blockquote>