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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 1713774" data-attributes="member: 2067">Church &amp; Corruption&nbsp;Yeah, I should've said swing it once and run 20 ft. in full plate. Still, the basic principle stands.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can believe in a philosophy. Or a force. Or an abstract concept. As long as you believe in *something*, divine magic works for you. You could believe you're the second coming of Christ, and you'd have spells that you grant yourself. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;That's how small-scale corruption can exist in churches. Just because two people share an alignment doesn't mean their goals and duties are the same, and they might not even share an alignment (actual clerics would, but adepts, the experts who serve as clergy....?). &nbsp;The line is drawn at large-scale corruption, which must happen from the 'top down' to be effective. It's easy to find the one evil cleric who's not part of the group. It's harder when they're all running the church, know they're evil, and don't really care...the peasants don't know any better, after all...&nbsp;But when you could just go off and found your own Church of Big Badness, and have thousands of followers of various wicked peoples within a week or two, there's no real reason to corrupt -- if you can heal, power is yours for the taking, even if your heal because of your devout belief in nihilism. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 1713774, member: 2067"] [b]Church & Corruption[/b] Yeah, I should've said swing it once and run 20 ft. in full plate. Still, the basic principle stands. You can believe in a philosophy. Or a force. Or an abstract concept. As long as you believe in *something*, divine magic works for you. You could believe you're the second coming of Christ, and you'd have spells that you grant yourself. :) That's how small-scale corruption can exist in churches. Just because two people share an alignment doesn't mean their goals and duties are the same, and they might not even share an alignment (actual clerics would, but adepts, the experts who serve as clergy....?). The line is drawn at large-scale corruption, which must happen from the 'top down' to be effective. It's easy to find the one evil cleric who's not part of the group. It's harder when they're all running the church, know they're evil, and don't really care...the peasants don't know any better, after all... But when you could just go off and found your own Church of Big Badness, and have thousands of followers of various wicked peoples within a week or two, there's no real reason to corrupt -- if you can heal, power is yours for the taking, even if your heal because of your devout belief in nihilism. :p [/QUOTE]

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