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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 480855" data-attributes="member: 3477">How does it honour the foe? Going to war was a question of honour. This goes well even with a Christian faith, think of the Paladin. Only worthy foes were subjected to cannibalism. This shows that the act in itself has nothing to do with "preventing someone's access to a clean afterlife", whatever this might be; your words sound like a Old Egyptian concept to me and are completely out of social context. Even in Christianity the removal of body parts doesn't do anything bad for your afterlife: think of all those saints' relics. Those dead foes that weren't thought to be worthy, weren't eaten. If your concept were true, they cannibals would only honour the weaklings.What is a "real" benefit in contrast to a "perceived" one? All religion has to do with perceived benefits; except when it comes to D&D. The thing with the diseases is right, but this hasn't to do anything with the good vs. evil debate; it's just a scientific matter. Plus you ignored the matter of the holy communion, a cannibalistic ritual as the centre of a world religion, and this one is obviously accepted as non-evil. Though the ritual is only symbolic in case of Christian beliefs, it clearly shows the social acceptance of a cannibalistic mindset.</blockquote>