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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1679725" data-attributes="member: 571">Okay, magic is a new discovery. The ability to change the world through manipulation of arcane forces has come to light, and been made reliable.How would the Church deal with this?Not entirely as you would expect. Back then the world was divided into the sacred and the profane. Either something was of God, or it was not of God. If not of God it had to be from the Devil, and so a perversion of God's work. the secular was not part of the equation. You could not have something that was not of God or of the Devil.Now people start manifesting powers and abilities they hadn't before. What to do?That depends. Is it of God or Satan? If it comes from Satan it must be a perversion of God's work, for Satan cannot create himself. All he can do is take and twist that which God has made. So if these new powers are a perversion of God's work, then there must be those who can use what God has wrought for God's glory.How do you tell the difference? Well, good seed does not bear bad fruit. Bad seed does not bear good fruit. If the works of a wizard bear bad fruit, then his skills must be of Satan. But if the works of a wizard bear good fruit, then his skills must be of God.You can expect the Roman Catholic Church to adapt to the new conditions in short order, and start using magic to their own ends. Establishing orders dedicated to the Godly use of arcane and divine magic. And to combating Satan's perversion of God's will. Other branches of Christianity and other faiths as well.Rabbinical Judaism would probably adopt magic even before western Christianity. It is, after all, from Rabbinical Judaism that Kabballah comes. With Islam it depends. The pagans would take to it like a duck to water.The eastern Christian rites would vary in their adoption of magic. The more mystical sects may take to it rapidly, or reject it for even longer depending on their traditions.But all in all I'd have to say the Western Church would be strongly influenced by their long time hold on secular power. When you have to handle real world affairs it does tend to make you a more practical person. Which means a fairly quick adjustment to the new conditions and a rapid adoption of the new abilities.</blockquote>

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