From:	"S.F. Eley" <gt6877c@*****.GATECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Gods/Heaven/Hell
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:18:10 -0400

Stephanos Piperoglou writes:

> There has been *NO* analysis of religious FACTS in SR.

Very true. Shadowrun has a pretty wide market for a role-playing game, and
FASA would do less business if they started offending people. Even less if
they started getting sued for it.


> I remember seeing some short treatise on religion somewhere in SR, but I
> don't remember where, but anyway there are many possible sets of beliefs,
> just as there are today.

There's a couple of paragraphs in the Grimoire 2nd Ed. about how various
organized religions adapted to the return of magic.


> Totems are not gods. They are totems. Full stop. They are *NOT* entities,
> *NOT* spirits, *NOT* deities.

Awww, and you were doing so well there, too. >8-> What happened to "*NO*
analysis of religious FACTS?" Many shamans treat their totems religiously.
Sure, they MIGHT be none of the above.. Then again, they might be all of
the above, or some of the above. We don't know. Shadowrun only describes
the effect totems have, not their nature.


Blessings,

_TNX._

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