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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9745506" data-attributes="member: 42856">Indeed. If we, human from Earth, developped divine concepts oriented around rituals, despite them not producing any actual result, it is only logical to imagine that the same could hold true in a world where the outcome is repeatable and demonstrably true (if you sacrifice a 10,000 gp diamond in the proper way (ie, casting the Resurrection spell) and you're pure enough (ie, you're 13th level cleric or succeed your roll when reading it from a scroll), then the dead will be resurrected by the power of the god).The fact that it is demonstrably true might just lower the number of people disbelieving that gods are responsible for the natural order of things, but atheism was extremely niche (and a topic that mattered to a handful of philosophers) so it would simply be indistinguishable from our ancient world.You might have less people mocking the rituals, though (unlike Cicero's famous Vetus autem illud Catonis admodum scitum est, qui mirari se aiebat, quod non rideret haruspex, haruspicem cum vidisset. -- he didn't (openly) disbelieve the gods, he disbelieved the ritual of divination as operational).</blockquote>