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Region: Forest

Blue Nagia wrote:Yeah.

I think the problem is, as we in the US have seen over the past 4 years, if people are corrupt enough they'll swear on anything that makes their point. No one who needs to be held to truth-telling is going to be swayed by a Bible, and anyone who is sufficiently honest will consider their word to be bond regardless of what they swear on.

In practice, people bend their religion to their morals, not the other way around.

Yet in aggregate, the ritual itself is a powerful subconscious motivator towards good behaviour. Obviously it won't change the saints and the grifters, but then there are a whole lot of people who sit somewhere in between.

Mount Seymour, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Nattily dressed anarchists on bicycles, and 3 othersMiddle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Blue Nagia

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