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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6759742" data-attributes="member: 37579">The thing is, it can be earnest worship. Earnest worship isn't hard, you just need to believe. You need to honestly commit to your beliefs. Which, generally, isn't that hard. People do it all the damn time. The world is chock full of people who believe ardently and we don't know for sure there is a god. It'd be easier if your god literally walked the world and could answer pesky dogma questions at the cost of a single 5th level spell slot. If those few coins were an appropriate tribute and you say the Hail Marys without sarcasm then that really is all it takes. It really is just that easy. Faith isn't that hard. Not really. I mean, I believe weird stuff. Really weird. I believe that the universe is made out of one dimensional threads folded into two dimensions and vibrating in a third with the rate of vibrating determines if clusters of the strands are energy or matter. Or superstrings. And I believe that despite very little experimental evidence because people I'm told are way smarter say that's how our universe works. That's messed up. That's really, really messed up. Heck, when you get right down to it, I probably couldn't explain electromagnetic field theory, the difference between alternating and direct current, or transistors but I still plug in my iPad every day. I take so much on faith every moment of every day for a heck of a lot less evidence than the average person in the Realms.IF you're willing to earnestly believe. As you say, easy to come by. It's easy to find a god that really works with your values. There's so many gods it should be easy to find one that's perfect for you, that you don't just have to venerate but want to venerate. And, if you pray hard enough, you get superpowers. Why wouldn't you worship? All worldbuilding evokes some elements of the real world, mixing and matching beliefs and ideas. There's no new ideas left. The last original idea anyone ever had was casting Schwarzenegger and DeVito as Twins. Prior to that you need to go back to Shakespeare*. Most myths like that don't tend to have atheists. There's not a lot of people who deny the gods in Greek Mythology. Well, except maybe in the "you're not my real dad!!" kinda way. *even this joke wasn't original and is flagrantly stolen from a Peter David comic.</blockquote>

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