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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 786392" data-attributes="member: 6533">I would imagine that the real question for Atheists in DnD isn't how could one be an atheist, but why?The advantages of having religion and prayer in your life in DnD are so obvious that they really outweigh many of the percived disadvantages of institutionalized/hierarchical religion in our world or theirs.But, that doesn't mean that those disadvantages aren't still there.Being an Atheist in DnD probably gives you a lot of the same benefits that being an Atheist in real life gives you.  There is a less reason to pay attention to a wide variety of codes and institutions if one is an Atheist and the arguments are cool and you have less of a compulsion to pay money to or for various things, and being an Atheist enalbes one to be anti-clerical.Think about it, clerics have got to be even more annoying in DnD than they are in real life.  They are most likely even more inflexible over obviously subjective issues and more equipped with resources and good will by which to enforce their version of these issues on others.An Atheist in this sense is godless in that he or she holds no allegiance to any god and is hostile to the very concept of doing so.  Belief or disbelief is only secondary.The one great difference between an Atheists situation in DnD and an Atheists situation in the real world is that in DnD an Atheist might experience the sort of existential doubt that almost universally plagues the religious in our world.Or you could flip it the other way and look at the advantages a religious person sees in holding his or her point of view in an Atheistic society and then ascribe those to an Atheist in a similarly unpopular situation.</blockquote>

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