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<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5475385" data-attributes="member: 71571">Could be a lot worse.&nbsp; Petitioners have always tended to get the short end of the stick in the D&amp;D universes.&nbsp; Often you'd end up just getting absorbed into the plane itself, or conscripted to be one of the fodder troops in some eternal war, with your reward?&nbsp; Oblivion.-------------I prefer, myself, the cosmology of Eberron for all this.&nbsp; What happens when you die?&nbsp; Who knows.&nbsp; There's no guarantee, even the gods themselves are mysteries or myths, and many cultures don't even worship dieties but rather concepts or embodyments of some higher ideal.&nbsp; Who really cares about what happens when you die, when you're supposed to be more concerned with not dying.&nbsp; You go to the realm of the dead... and from there... well... no one knows.&nbsp; No one worries about the cosmic injustice of gods running the place, because they don't interfere with how things work. But... in a world where the gods are not only interfering, but sometimes even directly hand down quests from on high... no... atheism is not a rational choice, want of freedom or not.&nbsp; Want freedom?&nbsp; Flip a coin and evoke Tymora and forget about it.&nbsp; It's not being a slave, it's paying heed to the physics of the universe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 5475385, member: 71571"] Could be a lot worse. Petitioners have always tended to get the short end of the stick in the D&D universes. Often you'd end up just getting absorbed into the plane itself, or conscripted to be one of the fodder troops in some eternal war, with your reward? Oblivion. ------------- I prefer, myself, the cosmology of Eberron for all this. What happens when you die? Who knows. There's no guarantee, even the gods themselves are mysteries or myths, and many cultures don't even worship dieties but rather concepts or embodyments of some higher ideal. Who really cares about what happens when you die, when you're supposed to be more concerned with [b]not dying.[/b] You go to the realm of the dead... and from there... well... no one knows. No one worries about the cosmic injustice of gods running the place, because they don't interfere with how things work. But... in a world where the gods are not only interfering, but sometimes even directly hand down quests from on high... no... atheism is not a rational choice, want of freedom or not. Want freedom? Flip a coin and evoke Tymora and forget about it. It's not being a slave, it's paying heed to the physics of the universe. [/QUOTE]

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