@golgaloth "Do what you want but it has to stand up to Claude's Hammer: no god worthy of worship will ask you for any act that would be evil in the absence of the god." So they've got shrines, some art, weddings and funerals and other Important Event Ceremonies, some bands and choirs specializing in the same, but are refreshingly short on power-bloated ticks reigning from atop mountains of agony.
@golgaloth There's an argument that the core concept of Christianity is about breaking cycles of violence that derive from "stable state moralities" you'd otherwise get.
@TEG The core concept of Christianity was to take Judaism and then tack on a whole bunch of other stories, with the original names crossed out, and pretend they were about Jesus all along.
@golgaloth If I recall correctly, that's kind of the point of the above. The idea was that you need a kind of cultural bridge that connects to two mindsets that are more alien than you might think. Been a good while since I read anything about it though, came from this:
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