[narf poit chez BOOM]

Also, keep in mind that throughout history, there has been in general an inverse relation between religious devotion and tolerance.

how do you measure religious devotion if people aren't killing each other over it? no, really. some merchant in 200BC makes 2,000GP, makes a record of it, tell me people aren't going to assume he wasn't religious if he doesn't include religeon in his financial records, which he probably won't. and how do you know his religious devotion isn't peacefull? i would say that during times of war is when religious retoric is used the most(keeping in mind that retoric just means arguments and is not a value judgement) so how do you get an accurate count of religious devotion when peacefull people are generally quieter about there religeon than violent people? plus, of course, in times of crisis, people will be more religious. they may lapse after, in which case it was need, not faith.

aside from all my other arguements.

[ January 09, 2004, 06:54: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]