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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 380546" data-attributes="member: 5137">Firstly, it is sooo cooooool that you're on these boards <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.(end fanboy mode) The Church of feudal Europe was practically an auxiliary government - no reason to treat it separately from the rest of the aristocrats. And economically, peasant/middle class coins which go to Church militias is no different from coins going to noble militias. Particularly since the militias were so fragmented already.Political effects, of course, are an entirely different matter. Or rather, a clergy with real powers would have the above effect.A real deity will have effects in accordance with that grave entity's will... which could easily mean a church with little or no economic influence at all. For example, if priests are required (as some religious monks were) to live only on charity and to possess no material things past a change of clothes and good shoes.The "respected, influential, and active" could well be true, but does not indicate a corresponding impact on the economy.</blockquote>