On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods - Revision history

https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods - Revision history 2026-04-30T15:49:07Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.1 https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=14459&oldid=prev Gronk at 17:44, 19 September 2024 2024-09-19T17:44:37Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:44, 19 September 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l20">Line 20:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 20:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>-----</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Now consider an example more complex. In [[Viridia]], the church of [[Harinna]] holds great sway. While the goddess does not enjoy the status of a state religion, as Malavisch does in Koritan, the monarchy has for millennia tied itself to the Indomitable Sun. Reverence of the deity is deep-seated, even compared to her peers, and an inseparable part of the society of the Dominion. Yet how would her devotees, every-man and cleric alike, respond to the knowledge that aspects of her worship predate their church, their holy texts, their codifications, their very <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">adoption </del>of the goddess?</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Now consider an example more complex. In [[Viridia]], the church of [[Harinna]] holds great sway. While the goddess does not enjoy the status of a state religion, as Malavisch does in Koritan, the monarchy has for millennia tied itself to the Indomitable Sun. Reverence of the deity is deep-seated, even compared to her peers, and an inseparable part of the society of the Dominion. Yet how would her devotees, every-man and cleric alike, respond to the knowledge that aspects of her worship predate their church, their holy texts, their codifications, their very <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">knowledge </ins>of the goddess?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All who worship Harinna know of the importance of ritual. Participation in the ceremonies of the church keeps chaos at bay, not only mere prayer but offerings and exhortations to the divine and her saints. These practices are dutifully kept, all in Harinna's name. But they are not Harinnan in nature, at least not originally.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All who worship Harinna know of the importance of ritual. Participation in the ceremonies of the church keeps chaos at bay, not only mere prayer but offerings and exhortations to the divine and her saints. These practices are dutifully kept, all in Harinna's name. But they are not Harinnan in nature, at least not originally.</div></td></tr> </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10898&oldid=prev Gronk at 09:33, 25 January 2024 2024-01-25T09:33:32Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:33, 25 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l24">Line 24:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 24:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All who worship Harinna know of the importance of ritual. Participation in the ceremonies of the church keeps chaos at bay, not only mere prayer but offerings and exhortations to the divine and her saints. These practices are dutifully kept, all in Harinna's name. But they are not Harinnan in nature, at least not originally.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All who worship Harinna know of the importance of ritual. Participation in the ceremonies of the church keeps chaos at bay, not only mere prayer but offerings and exhortations to the divine and her saints. These practices are dutifully kept, all in Harinna's name. But they are not Harinnan in nature, at least not originally.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before the pantheonic gods gained roots in [[Thadria]], [[Thadrian hero-worship|hero-worship]] was the norm. Though this was not the same as the veneration of [[hero-gods]] in [[Hellea]], it was not entirely unlike it either. Great figures - kings, chiefs, warriors, mages, any who achieved glory in life - were revered in death as well, given gifts for wealth in afterlife then entreated to return to the mortal world to continue their fight against the dangers faced by their people. There were spirits and celebrated ancestors to this faith, but no gods. When what we now call the [[Chaskan pantheon]] started to become known in Thadria, this faith did not die or disappear. It fused and melded instead. The heroes did not vanish. That they were now called saints and had a goddess above them mattered little to their followers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before the pantheonic gods gained roots in [[Thadria]], [[Thadrian hero-worship|hero-worship]] was the norm. Though this was not the same as the veneration of [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hero-god|</ins>hero-gods]] in [[Hellea]], it was not entirely unlike it either. Great figures - kings, chiefs, warriors, mages, any who achieved glory in life - were revered in death as well, given gifts for wealth in afterlife then entreated to return to the mortal world to continue their fight against the dangers faced by their people. There were spirits and celebrated ancestors to this faith, but no gods. When what we now call the [[Chaskan pantheon]] started to become known in Thadria, this faith did not die or disappear. It fused and melded instead. The heroes did not vanish. That they were now called saints and had a goddess above them mattered little to their followers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Harinnan clergy will deny the source of their traditions, and yet it is true. Even many thousands of years later, these roots are still clear.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Harinnan clergy will deny the source of their traditions, and yet it is true. Even many thousands of years later, these roots are still clear.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10778&oldid=prev Gronk at 18:43, 20 January 2024 2024-01-20T18:43:55Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:43, 20 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill the innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, ancestors, and other subjects of veneration endure.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill the innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[ancestor worship|</ins>ancestors<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, and other subjects of veneration endure.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10764&oldid=prev Gronk at 20:17, 19 January 2024 2024-01-19T20:17:52Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:17, 19 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l24">Line 24:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 24:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All who worship Harinna know of the importance of ritual. Participation in the ceremonies of the church keeps chaos at bay, not only mere prayer but offerings and exhortations to the divine and her saints. These practices are dutifully kept, all in Harinna's name. But they are not Harinnan in nature, at least not originally.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All who worship Harinna know of the importance of ritual. Participation in the ceremonies of the church keeps chaos at bay, not only mere prayer but offerings and exhortations to the divine and her saints. These practices are dutifully kept, all in Harinna's name. But they are not Harinnan in nature, at least not originally.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before the pantheonic gods gained roots in [[Thadria]], [[Thadrian hero-worship|hero-worship]] was the norm. Though this was not the same as the veneration of [[hero-gods]] in [[Hellea]], it was not entirely unlike it either. Great figures - kings, chiefs, warriors, mages, any who achieved glory in life - were revered in death as well, given gifts for wealth in afterlife then entreated to return to the mortal world to continue their fight against the dangers faced by their people. There were spirits and celebrated ancestors to this faith, but no gods. When what we now call the [[Chaskan pantheon]] started to become known in Thadria, this faith did not die or disappear. It fused and melded instead. The heroes did not vanish. That they now had a goddess above them mattered little to their followers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before the pantheonic gods gained roots in [[Thadria]], [[Thadrian hero-worship|hero-worship]] was the norm. Though this was not the same as the veneration of [[hero-gods]] in [[Hellea]], it was not entirely unlike it either. Great figures - kings, chiefs, warriors, mages, any who achieved glory in life - were revered in death as well, given gifts for wealth in afterlife then entreated to return to the mortal world to continue their fight against the dangers faced by their people. There were spirits and celebrated ancestors to this faith, but no gods. When what we now call the [[Chaskan pantheon]] started to become known in Thadria, this faith did not die or disappear. It fused and melded instead. The heroes did not vanish. That they <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were </ins>now <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">called saints and </ins>had a goddess above them mattered little to their followers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Harinnan clergy will deny the source of their traditions, and yet it is true. Even many thousands of years later, these roots are still clear.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Harinnan clergy will deny the source of their traditions, and yet it is true. Even many thousands of years later, these roots are still clear.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10763&oldid=prev Gronk at 20:16, 19 January 2024 2024-01-19T20:16:56Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:16, 19 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l14">Line 14:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But their worship is not unchanged. It is not an archaism that has forgotten to die. It has evolved, it has shifted, it has grown. The rites and worship have been adapted in response to the new potentates of Razgovir. The old faiths, as their followers choose to call them, have become more protective, almost insular in some manners, even as the beliefs at their hearts continue.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But their worship is not unchanged. It is not an archaism that has forgotten to die. It has evolved, it has shifted, it has grown. The rites and worship have been adapted in response to the new potentates of Razgovir. The old faiths, as their followers choose to call them, have become more protective, almost insular in some manners, even as the beliefs at their hearts continue.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And this is the truth as to the endurance of these teachings. As others have noted, with no coupling to a church or priesthood adaptations can and are made by any that hold the faith. This is no revelation - many, even those that dismiss these beliefs, have written on this. But it is the first crack in the foundation for theologians that dismiss these religions as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">archaic</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And this is the truth as to the endurance of these teachings. As others have noted, with no coupling to a church or priesthood adaptations can and are made by any that hold the faith. This is no revelation - many, even those that dismiss these beliefs, have written on this. But it is the first crack in the foundation for theologians that dismiss these religions as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">antiquated</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is the first manner by which these faiths survive.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is the first manner by which these faiths survive.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10762&oldid=prev Gronk at 20:15, 19 January 2024 2024-01-19T20:15:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:15, 19 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill the innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, ancestors, and other subjects of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">worship </del>endure.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill the innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, ancestors, and other subjects of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">veneration </ins>endure.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10761&oldid=prev Gronk at 20:15, 19 January 2024 2024-01-19T20:15:30Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:15, 19 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill the innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, ancestors, and other subjects of worship endure.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill the innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, ancestors, and other subjects of worship endure.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10760&oldid=prev Gronk at 20:15, 19 January 2024 2024-01-19T20:15:13Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:15, 19 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Endurance of Faith Without Gods|author=[[Curator|Archivist]] [[Enna-Dagan]]|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] in which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, ancestors, and other subjects of worship endure.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Quote|Much has been written about the gods worshiped throughout the world, enough to fill <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>innumerable tomes that have occupied the attentions of countless scholars. Curiously less well-studied, at least in the universities and scholariums around the [[Chaska Sea]] in which I have had the fortune of attending, have been the faiths without deities, largely overlooked by formal research. Even as worship of the pantheonic gods grows ever more influential, religions of spirits, ancestors, and other subjects of worship endure.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This work does not attempt to catalog these faiths. Such an effort would be foolish, for they take such a wide number of forms that vary endlessly. Instead, I seek to disprove the presumption of some influential theologians, who will not be named out of respect, that these beliefs are obsolete relics, remnants of past cultures that no longer hold relevance and will eventually fade away. This notion is the result of a blindness towards beliefs they consider crude and a disregard for religion that defies simple categorization.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10754&oldid=prev Gronk at 20:08, 19 January 2024 2024-01-19T20:08:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:08, 19 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>-----</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Religions that omit gods cannot be easily supplanted by those that include them, as the ruling elites in [[Koritan]] have learned well. Even under the watchful eyes and forceful hands of the [[Malavisch|Malavischan]] [[Order of the Black Swan|inquisitors]], pre-Koritanite [[animism|animist]] and druidic practices remain strong. Centuries of repression have successfully driven traditional [[Razgovir|Razgoviri]] nature worship and soul-dreaming out of the cities and larger towns, but the people of the frontiers are not so easily led from their faiths. Distant from the major population centers, the dreamers and the mystics and the druids continue their ways.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Religions that omit gods cannot be easily supplanted by those that include them, as the ruling elites in [[Koritan]] have learned well. Even under the watchful eyes and forceful hands of the [[Malavisch|Malavischan]] [[Order of the Black Swan|inquisitors]], pre-Koritanite [[animism|animist]] and druidic practices remain strong. Centuries of repression have successfully driven traditional [[Razgovir|Razgoviri]] nature worship and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>soul-dreaming<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>out of the cities and larger towns, but the people of the frontiers are not so easily led from their faiths. Distant from the major population centers, the dreamers and the mystics and the druids continue their ways.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But their worship is not unchanged. It is not an archaism that has forgotten to die. It has evolved, it has shifted, it has grown. The rites and worship have been adapted in response to the new potentates of Razgovir. The old faiths, as their followers choose to call them, have become more protective, almost insular in some manners, even as the beliefs at their hearts continue.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But their worship is not unchanged. It is not an archaism that has forgotten to die. It has evolved, it has shifted, it has grown. The rites and worship have been adapted in response to the new potentates of Razgovir. The old faiths, as their followers choose to call them, have become more protective, almost insular in some manners, even as the beliefs at their hearts continue.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Gronk https://gronkfinder.com/w/index.php?title=On_the_Endurance_of_Faith_Without_Gods&diff=10725&oldid=prev Gronk at 18:24, 19 January 2024 2024-01-19T18:24:34Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:24, 19 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>-----</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Religions that omit gods cannot be easily supplanted by those that include them, as the ruling elites in [[Koritan]] have learned well. Even under the watchful eyes and forceful hands of the [[Malavisch|Malavischan]] [[Order of the Black Swan|inquisitors]], pre-Koritanite animist and druidic practices remain strong. Centuries of repression have successfully driven traditional [[Razgovir|Razgoviri]] nature worship and soul-dreaming out of the cities and larger towns, but the people of the frontiers are not so easily led from their faiths. Distant from the major population centers, the dreamers and the mystics and the druids continue their ways.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Religions that omit gods cannot be easily supplanted by those that include them, as the ruling elites in [[Koritan]] have learned well. Even under the watchful eyes and forceful hands of the [[Malavisch|Malavischan]] [[Order of the Black Swan|inquisitors]], pre-Koritanite <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[animism|</ins>animist<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and druidic practices remain strong. Centuries of repression have successfully driven traditional [[Razgovir|Razgoviri]] nature worship and soul-dreaming out of the cities and larger towns, but the people of the frontiers are not so easily led from their faiths. Distant from the major population centers, the dreamers and the mystics and the druids continue their ways.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But their worship is not unchanged. It is not an archaism that has forgotten to die. It has evolved, it has shifted, it has grown. The rites and worship have been adapted in response to the new potentates of Razgovir. The old faiths, as their followers choose to call them, have become more protective, almost insular in some manners, even as the beliefs at their hearts continue.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But their worship is not unchanged. It is not an archaism that has forgotten to die. It has evolved, it has shifted, it has grown. The rites and worship have been adapted in response to the new potentates of Razgovir. The old faiths, as their followers choose to call them, have become more protective, almost insular in some manners, even as the beliefs at their hearts continue.</div></td></tr>  </table>

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