Veneration

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 08:10:33 +1300


Steve Lieb:

Me>>Veneration is synonymous with a particular kind of Worship in
>>gloranthan contexts, just like magic is synomymous with
>>religion. [snip] these distinctions ... have little meaning
>>in glorantha.

>But also IMO, while to our 'enlightened, out-of-game' context this
>distinction is of little import, I'd say that in-Glorantha the distinction
>*does* mean just as much to, say, a iconoclast Rokari theologist as it
>would have to Thomas Aquinas.

There's no real difference as the Malkioni venerate God as well as the Saints. The Rokari Iconoclast thinks that only God should be venerated which is certainly not Thomas's position.

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