Re: Meeting your God

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:02:27 +0100


Morgan Conrad [from the HeroWars List]:

>IMO, this means that RW and Gloranthan worshippers would often
>behave differently. All RW people have doubts if their God exists.
>

IMO, this is simply false.

>One of the great themes of RW religion is how does a good all-
>powerful God let evil happen? This theme is absent in Glorantha.
>

It's absent among the Heortlings, yes, but not in Glorantha as a whole - Sartar is not Glorantha. It's a problem for the Malkioni, for instance.

>Apparently, non-trivial numbers of Heortlings doubt Orlanth, else
>there would be very little "proto-chaotic" acts like kinstrife and
>rape.
>

Some people fail to live up to Orlanth's laws; this is not the same thing as doubting Orlanth.

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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