>Is the modern concept of faith applicable in a Gloranthan sense? >Nowadays,
>it
>means "There's no evidence, but I believe it anyway", and the >atheist (eg.
>me,
>I swing between atheist and agnostic these days) would say that >faith is
>an
>invention to keep people loyal to a non-existent fantasy.
By whom? People need to believe, because faith is a component of humanity
and human mind (and human education, if you want to be freudian). It's not a
plot from someone. It's a human characteristic that someone can try and use
at his advantage, but so is also superficiality, superstition, greed,
generosity, social behavior and a lot of other nice things.
>In >Glorantha,
>however, this kind of faith is unnecessary
Yes: in G you have the evidencies. This makes RW faith unnecessary. In G,
IMO, people has no faith, people has a cult and trades power with the deity
to obtain blessings in return. That's different from modern RW faith and
more similar to RW superstition. Have you ever read the Golden Bough of
Frazer? Try it (a bit lenghty, but you can skip most pages of exempla, trust
me).
Ciao
Gianfranco
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