Local Gods
Local Gods
Now the Cedrist religion spread outside the Shirerithian borders Shireroth could call itself local and recognise a local God?
I'm not sure, but are Local Gods like patron saints in Real Life?
I'm not sure, but are Local Gods like patron saints in Real Life?
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Re: Local Gods
Now I sense the ominous warble of Divflaxia, Goddess of Divine Census Inflation...
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Re: Local Gods
Local Gods are just gods that are worshiped locally, but outside that area aren't really. ie, no one really cares about them outside the local area.
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...unless they work really hard and gain a following, in which case they are not local anymore.............
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Ay... Naudia'Diva had some local gods... and Straylight has some, too.
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Their pretty much patron saints... eh...
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If you wanna be all... Christian about it.... Blah.
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I thought the idea of patronage was older than Christianity?
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:: Formerly just "benkern"
:: Rook Sentry of the Order of the Vorpal Blade
:: Count of Mar Sara IIRC
:: Former Baron of Absentia AFAIK, before that Baron of Vorpmadal TBH; also Former Duke of Yardistan IMHO
:: Dux Emeritus of the Order of Mischievous Intent
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Re: Local Gods
It is. The idea of a 'patron saint' came about because the Catholic church wanted to make the transition to Christianity easier on the pagans by combining beliefs.
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Like why Christmas is celebrated in December and not sometime in Spring....
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Something like that--when you have a perfectly good, popular holiday like Satutnalia, why not co-opt it and turn it into a Christian holiday. That way you accomplish two goals at once: you defuse the pagan holiday, and infuse the same holiday with new, Christian meaning.
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And the universality of the Catholic church triumphs again!
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Long live the Catholic Church! That it conquer the world with violence and let the people life in perfect harmony!Kaiser Hasan I wrote:And the universality of the Catholic church triumphs again!
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Unless they wanna put a lil rubber thing on their cock... then all hell breaks loose.
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I've started giving my kids to medical experiments. There are so many of them...
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Which, experiments or kids?
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Kids. (Trying to continue the reference to the Meaning of Life by MP).
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Right. I rarely watched it when it was first on PBS. So I have missed most of the in-jokes.
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Every sperm is sacred...
(I started singing that as a point of reference in a conversation once...)
(I started singing that as a point of reference in a conversation once...)
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Hurray Monty Python!
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