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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phantarch" data-source="post: 6761830" data-attributes="member: 6801685">I'm generalizing and NOT trying to start a religious debate, but a general tenet of Christianity is worship God or go to hell. There are no bonus points or exceptions for being a good person. In real life, you are more than welcome to decide that this belief is messed up, and choose another religion or no religion at all. You're even free to start your own religion. However, if you choose to accept Christianity, you accept that this is the fundamental nature of the afterlife, and you then work to understand how this is acceptable and God is still good. Believe me, there are THOUSANDS of theology books out there that strive to understand and explain this.I only make this comment in that it applies to the Forgotten Realms. You have the same choices. You can decide that this is a horrible setup for the afterlife and does not fit your definition of Good and Evil. That's fine (I tend to agree), but that means you can choose another campaign setting or make your own (either from scratch or homebrew Forgotten Realms to have a different afterlife setup). However, if you want to play Forgotten Realms as published, you then have to accept that the afterlife setup is fundamentally the natural order, and then you have to work to understand how you can still have Good gods in this setup. And as for "understanding and accepting", you'll still have a thousand different answers just as there are a thousand denominations of Christianity with 2000 years of heated theological debate (among a group that AGREES on the basic tenets).</blockquote>

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