Religion

From Neverend

Religion is a form of politics. It has laws that are instated to affect the behavior of any church following that religion. City politics have precedence inside a church, while laws of religion are followed second. If a city outlaws killing, then the church cannot allow killing inside the church.

[edit] Categories

Religions fall into several main categories:

Monotheism
Polytheism
Agnostic
Atheist
Theological
Virtue

[edit] Laws

There are three types of religious law:

Main, comes with its own laws. There are several default laws to choose from.
Sect, has a modified version of main laws
Independent, has its own laws made from scratch

Laws are usually edited by the highest member of the church, usually a pope or high priest. They can also be edited by anyone given the authority to edit by a higher member of the church.

Laws can consist of the following:

Encourage worship Encourage meditation Encourage donation Discourage killing Encourage killing Discourage other churches Discourage other religions Promote church Promote religion Ask for donation Ask for donating time Demand donation Demand donating time Demand training Talk about subject Encourage person Encourage activity Encourage building Encourage job Encourage group Encourage city Discourage person Discourage activity Discourage building Discourage job Discourage group Discourage city Practice activity Practice job Perform activity Perform job Encourage membership Encourage peacefulness

[edit] Activities

Indoor activities:

Mass: Mass is a grouping of members and non-members. Various activities are performed based on the laws. This can include giving speeches, asking for donations, playing music, handing out items, or asking members to perform tasks. Mass lasts for a designated period of time (4 hours, etc).
Maintenance: The church will spend this time building new parts of the church, buying art, or adding art. It also includes gardening and trash collecting.
Sleep, the church members go to sleep in their quarters or at home.
Meals, the church has members or non-members eat at dinner tables
Healing, the church has personnel heal the wounded
Use funds, the church will donate to others, or buy art and materials
Acquire funds, the church will ask for donations
Training, the church will train martial arts, spellcasting, etc
Food and drink making, the church will craft food and drinks
Storage, the church will store excess currency, food, and drinks

Outdoor activities:

The church will use funds to buy from stores
The church will promote its religion
The church will donate to the poor

[edit] Membership

The membership requirements are a part of law that specify how to join, and what is allowed to join. It may accept free membership, fee based membership, donation of items, donation of crafting, or employ members. It may ban certain jobs such as Witch Doctor, Bishop, Bandit, or Pickpocket. It may discriminate based on current skills or jobs, such as only accepting fighters, mages, clerics, or druids.

[edit] Examples

The Shlaptic religion encourages people to become a member of the church. It asks that there be at most fifteen statues built within the church, and a garden. It asks members to work on these activities. It asks members to donate alcohol and towels. Members will be trained in hand to hand and swordfighting. One shaman should be present to cast curses on people. The ceremony ends with everyone drinking poison.

The Dongle religion is a warlike cult that believes in glory and honor, and asks its members to kill monsters and animals and bring their corpses back to the church. Churchmembers craft these remains into food and bone sculpture.

The Qulon religion believes in peaceful meditation, and does not ask anything of anyone. Its members garden, meditate, and sleep. They store a large amount of plants which are donated to shops.