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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5639457" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>[MENTION=91434]The 1 and the Prime[/MENTION]</p><p>Your idea of the saint-cum-god is intriguing. That's a lot for me to chew on, but I'm definitely mulling it over in the back of my mind.</p><p></p><p>As for the "adopted by another god" argument, in my case I've got a sect which has at least 2 divergent beliefs which aren't deity dependent:</p><p>(1) How Raise Dead is used is unjust and strips the act of it's sacredness</p><p>(2) The irrevocable investiture of clerics allows for abuse of that power</p><p></p><p>These aren't acts of blasphemy, these are heretical strains of critical thought that are advocating for religious reform on a broad level, across the entire assumed D&D temple of 4e.</p><p></p><p></p><p>About the Socrates trial....its certainly debatable whether "apostasy" or "heresy" was the second charge against Socrates. Wasn't it for "inventing new gods", specifically the daimonion (which meant something like 'inner voice' or 'intuition')? Getting "I am leaving your religion for this new religion" from someone who believes they're guided by intuition and can help others access their own seems insane...by my modern sensibilities at least. "Heresy" seems extreme, but at least I can wrap my brain around how intuition *might* be seen as a religious innovation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 5639457, member: 20323"] [MENTION=91434]The 1 and the Prime[/MENTION] Your idea of the saint-cum-god is intriguing. That's a lot for me to chew on, but I'm definitely mulling it over in the back of my mind. As for the "adopted by another god" argument, in my case I've got a sect which has at least 2 divergent beliefs which aren't deity dependent: (1) How Raise Dead is used is unjust and strips the act of it's sacredness (2) The irrevocable investiture of clerics allows for abuse of that power These aren't acts of blasphemy, these are heretical strains of critical thought that are advocating for religious reform on a broad level, across the entire assumed D&D temple of 4e. About the Socrates trial....its certainly debatable whether "apostasy" or "heresy" was the second charge against Socrates. Wasn't it for "inventing new gods", specifically the daimonion (which meant something like 'inner voice' or 'intuition')? Getting "I am leaving your religion for this new religion" from someone who believes they're guided by intuition and can help others access their own seems insane...by my modern sensibilities at least. "Heresy" seems extreme, but at least I can wrap my brain around how intuition *might* be seen as a religious innovation. [/QUOTE]
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