Just from curiosity destroyed Isabelle's Holy City...

[Datajack Franit]

BTW Greek polytheism contained many elements, such as the idea of gods impregnating mortal women and having heroic sons sent to earth, which mysteriously found their way into God's 'true Word'.

True, but remember that Christianity is, mostly, an offspring of Judaism, which was one of the most conservative and xenophobe religions of the entire region. Cultural contamination from Greece was unlikely to happen, and by the time Christianity was radicated into the european world, everything and everyone existing before 1AD was tagged as "pagan" for many centuries to come. Divine pregnancy may just be a coincidence, for the miserable role of women in the ancient world.

[Son of David]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit



True, but remember that Christianity is, mostly, an offspring of Judaism, which was one of the most conservative and xenophobe religions of the entire region. Cultural contamination from Greece was unlikely to happen

That's true I suppose - for Judaism! But remember that Paul and his kind were trying to spread Christianity in ancient Greece and elsewhere which had developed their own complex polytheistic religions and mythologies - so I am suspicious that perhaps Christianity was designed with Pagans in mind, and it naturally found material abounding in the Greek legends. (The Book of Revelation does remind me of Greek myth with its talk of dragons and sea monsters.)

[TheHateMale]

Originally posted by Jonah5
Hm..... this info gives me an idea, I may yet conquer the world!

In Civ?

[Mace]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit Greco-roman polytheism was actually eradicated from the Roman world by "Christian fundamentalists" as soon as Christianity became a massive cult around Europe and the mediterranean coast, with pillages, massacres and the destruction of pagan holy shrines and temples

Uh, yes I am well aware of that. And that's pretty much what I said in my earlier post... the polytheism was "superceded" by Christianity. Pillaging and burning pagan stuff is superceding.

It's a thought...for a mod...at any rate...dwindling religion...I guess kind of related to the "remove religion from city" mod I saw here last week.

[Skanky Burns]

Does any unhappiness penalty affect your own cites who happen to have that religion in them?

[Jonah5]

Originally posted by TheHateMale


In Civ?

ugh sure, in civ, ugh yeah in civ, yep definitely in civ

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Jonah5



ugh sure, in civ, ugh yeah in civ, yep definitely in civ

Let us know if that ever changes to conquering the real world, okay?

[Jonah5]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner


Let us know if that ever changes to conquering the real world, okay?

You will be the first to know, although Japan might be a nice little country to rule, I have always wanted to visit there. But why stop with Japan when I can have the whole world. Muhahahaha! j/k ppl