open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

Comments

[somepagesturn]

So on your side of the Veil, there's... just the one, right?

[that seems so surreal to her, but she was raised with an understanding of all the different gods of Faerun and otherwise.]

[likeababyduck]

Sort of. I mean there were prominent pantheons in previous world history, but Christianity sort of ... conquered everything, after a while. But as it is, it evolved from Judaism and then splintered into different kinds of Christianity and Islam sort of evolved from the Middle Eastern religions as well.

[There's a beat.]

So basically, it's all the same god, they just have different ways of worshiping them.

[somepagesturn]

[she shakes her head, laughing a little.] Don't get me wrong- I think Christianity tries its hardest, but it's hard to stomp out a faith that gives us such wonderful gifts. Arguing about whose god is the real one or who worships the best way is just a good way to not get a cleric when you need one.

If I learned tomorrow that Milil was just an aspect of Ao and not his own separate god, then it wouldn't change anything about my faith in him.

[likeababyduck]

[He nods in agreement.]

You would think that people would have learned to compromise, but it doesn't stop people from being afraid of what they don't understand. Some extreme conservatives believe that learning about alternative faiths compromises their own. Why bother, when they're false to begin with.

[somepagesturn]

Exactly! Goodness, nothing has power if no one believes in it enough. You might as well say eating fish compromises your love for chicken.

[likeababyduck]

[He shakes his head.]

At least it means they have a great deal of passion for it. Maybe that's worth something?

[somepagesturn]

So long as it's productive passion, yeah.

[likeababyduck]

Agreed. And productive in a positive direction.

[Because there's being productive in a very negative direction that's not so good for anyone, really.]