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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hambot" data-source="post: 4235232" data-attributes="member: 61484">Religion is about following an ideal.Religious people are forever trying to follow those ideals, but constantly screwing up.  What empowers them is that they never give up trying to better themselves.(/evil themselves)A god who smites you for screwing up once is an idiot who will be one of terry pratchetts small gods in small order (no followers, desperately seeking more, kinda like Banjo in GITP)A god who warns a PC from straying from the path is providing a path to follow, and is a being worthy of worship.I agree with the professor on one point - be a jerk too many times and you're out of the faith club.  But DM screwing over 1 PC because his single awful action doesn't match your interpretation of 5 lines of alignment text in a book isn't fun, hence why I'm glad the whole framework is watered down.</blockquote>