Re: Athiests in Fantasy Settings ( Was: some help please (druid))

In article <12sjs9vc4k0gg3f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Arthur Boff  <arthur.boff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>There's no cast-iron evidence that gods exist in our world - certainly, 
>we don't have priests casting Cure Light Wounds by the bucketload - and 
>yet we have religions by the plenty. Religion fills an im****tant niche, 
>a niche which doesn't necessarily disappear if you say "gods don't exist 
>in this world".

An interesting possibility which I don't think I've seen explored
in an RPG:  if the theistic (god-based) religions stop filling that
niche, maybe something else will necessarily arise to do so.  So you
could have the theistic faiths, which have become mainly propritiation
and power-wor****p, and something like Buddhism or Taoism growing up
around them, quietly, outside their notice, to satisfy the human needs
which religions tend to meet.

The RPG theistic religions seldom seem to spend much effort meeting
those needs, after all:  a few holidays, maybe a burial or marriage
ceremony, but not much more.

I can think of a few examples of this in SF/fantasy, but none in RPGs.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]