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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 3010519" data-attributes="member: 9646">IMCS religion works like this:-- There is a monotheistic religion, loosely based on the Christian faith. It is a LG religion, but with an important point: mortals are given freedom of choice, and choosing to believe in God is an act of faith that must be decided by the mortal on its own. If the mortal would encounter an angel or God's avatar, s/he would be so much awed and scared that there wouldn't be any choice for her/him to worship God - the Heavens. Things work that a mortal must voluntarily choose the Heavens - God, with blind faith; it's a personnal decision. As such, God (and angels) don't intervene to teach mortals lessons and tell them which path to follow. The only exception to this is the gaining of divine spells.-- As a result, despite the Holy church is LG, some of its priests aren't. They have made the wrong choice. As such, they don't get spells anymore (a clue to their failing of faith!), but then, angels don't come to them for a lecture, and God doesn't expel them from the Church. In fact note that a mystic worthy of God / Heavens, would gain divine spells whether he belongs to the church or not. It's the prophet (a mortal) who created the Holy church on his own choice, not God (who never tells what he thinks about it).-- Some priests loose faith, behave wrong, hence don't get divine spells anymore. But if they escape attention from their brethren, since God doesn't intervene (freedom of choice), they can remain in the Church. Now, some of them have fallen to the temptation of the Devil. So now these unfaithful priests outwardly pretend to profess in the name of God while working for and getting spells from the Devil! Only inquisitors will root these unfaithful priests out, not God, who only ceases to give them divine spells.</blockquote>

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