Wrong Religion

[Qwertqwert]

I am a Taoist, and I just realized, a lot of civilizations are mad at us because of that, they're all Pagens so how do I switch to that?

[gilfan]

The symbol for paganism (no state religion) is at the far right of the religion screen (f7)

[Qwertqwert]

Oh, does that mean I don't get benefits of any religion?

[Willem]

That's right, at least not until you get the Free Religion civic.

[trev]

Usually early in the game switch to the religions your best friends have, although running no state religion is ok if you have lots of different religions, as you get a culture point for every religion in each city when running no state religion rather than just 1 for your state religion otherwise, these extra culture points along with temple and monastry points can be valuable in the early game

[Robert]

Other civs aren't mad at your religion if they're pagans and you're a taoist. They're only mad at you if your religion is not their religion. But paganism is not a religion, it's the lack of a religion (in civ)

They're maybe mad at you for other reasons.
Hover your mouse over their names in the right-bottom corner of the screen to see why they're mad at you.

[Nacht]

No paganism is a civic, they are probably buddhists or hinduists and have yet to discover monotheism for organised religion.

[Robert]

Well, the question is: with 'pagans', do you mean they have paganism as a civic? Or do they have no state religion?

[Nikolai]

I'm pretty sure you don't get any penalties for taoism <-> paganism.

[Solver]

Civs that have no state religion don't care what religion you are running.

[Provost Harrison]

Ditto Solver, if they haven't adopted a state religion, they have absolutely no opinion on you...

[Nikolai]

In that respect you mean.

[Tokyo Sexwale]

If they have no state religion, try to be the first to sign open borders and send a missionary their way and they will switch to yours. Since you're already at Toaism though, this probably isn't the case (?).

[Willem]

Originally posted by trev
Usually early in the game switch to the religions your best friends have, although running no state religion is ok if you have lots of different religions, as you get a culture point for every religion in each city when running no state religion rather than just 1 for your state religion otherwise, these extra culture points along with temple and monastry points can be valuable in the early game

I don't think that's the case. I believe you don't get any culture for religions when running no state religion until you are using the Free Religion civic. That would make having no state religion much more powerful than actually using a religion. I've never actually tried it though so I could be wrong. Can anyone confirm this?

[Nikolai]

You're right, you only get bonuses for the different religioons you have when you get free religion.