Cosmic Scams

From: Donald R. Oddy <donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 23:53:20 GMT



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>From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>

>I throw this in just because it's more grist to the mill of the
>useful ambiguity about _not necessarily being infallibly able to
>tell_ which portions of the otherside are Cosmic Truth, and which
>are Cosmic Scams (and which are somewhere in between), which
>personally I find damn _useful_, for Glorantha as a place to
>game in, and to express some of the subtleties of Real Religion(TM)
>in.

Does anyone have examples of Gloranthan religious scams? I can't quite see how they would work in a society which expects to relate to its gods. In the west I can see someone inventing a saint and collecting donations from the gullible to touch the relics which cure all sorts of diseases.

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