>> The actual statement is "an affinity is something you are". Given that
>> the Westerners worship Saints, the Praxians worship Waha and Eiritha and
>> practically every other animist follows a Really Big Spirit of some
>> sort, to characterise the emulation of immortals as the sin qua non of
>> theism is at odds with what we know about glorantha.
> Western magic does not come from personally and literally *embodying* a > saint. Unless I missed something.
You originally stated that my suggestions were crypto-theism. I was trying to understand what you meant. Since you have just given your definition of theism (and a good one it is too), I should point out that my original suggestions did not rely on the concept of literally embodying a saint or spirit - the knights for example were filled with the power of the Invisible God as revealed by the Saints for example.
Now that we have cleared that up, could I make a suggestion to be a bit fuller in your comments? A sentence or two expanding on what you thought the key problem was would have been considerably more informative than a cryptic comment.
--Peter Metcalfe
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