Hector wrote:
Uh... Wrong Topic?
Religious tolerance a wrong topic in the „Religion“-thread? How so?
Squeejee wrote:
While I definately like the idea of a somwhat tolerant Weyrth, …
Reconsidering, I get more and more the idea that too much of religious tolerance is maybe not conductive to the setting. For once, there is the problem of reconciliating the tolerance with facts from the core book – the Xanarians’ Holy War and the Vowers’ Jihad. But more importantly there is the impact on SAs. Intolerance has the somewhat higher potential for stronger SAs, both for people resenting the other faith and for those resenting this very intolerance.
Ian, if you would like to have more tolerance, why not limit it largely to your own Taveruun? As Taveruun lies adjactent to the “Middle East†and has a long history of close contact with it, it might have come to accept and respect the foreign faith. Familiarity need not always breed contempt, it can also breed understanding and respect. Spinning this thought further, we have already hinted at Taveruun having a history of being a hub of commerce between West and East, even the Far East, via ships from Weyrth’s farthest reaches sailing up the Saphire Bay. We could easily tie these facts in with Taveruun’s novel, heretic stance on sorcery. Exposed to foreign ideas throughout much of its history, maybe Taveruun has become an enlightened and tolerant country.
Squeejee wrote:
…, I also remember reading in the CR that there was a call among the 7VotP for those willing to fight to do so -- a jihad -- at about the suggested campaign start.
If we stay with the religious tolerance, we could tie in the call for a Jihad as a countermovement by those appalled by the tolerance having recently taken hold. We could portray this analogous to what is currently going in many Middle Eastern countries, a resurgence of fundamentalism, with the added benefit that adventures set before this background could have an added deeper meaning for those who wish to see it.