Zoroastrianism vs. Taoism vs. Confucianism: Who would you leave out?

[Bkeela]

No wonder Firaxis bend over backwards not to offend people with differences in religions. Apparently I'm an anti-semite because I don't like Judaism.

Pfft.

[Zoid]

You know you´re not allowed to criticize anything the jews say or do, Bkeela. That´s anti-semitism, that is...

[Nugog]

Zoroastrianism?

Never heard of it!

[Nugog]

Originally posted by Bkeela
No wonder Firaxis bend over backwards not to offend people with differences in religions. Apparently I'm an anti-semite because I don't like Judaism.

Pfft.

No Bkeela, not because you don't like it, because you have said that you don't like it.

Apparantly it is still okay to have your own opinion, just don't voice it if it is not mainstream

[LordShiva]

Stay on topic, guys. If I, of all people, can, surely you can too.

Atheism isn't a religion but a lack thereof. There was a multi-page thread last year debating this (I forgot who won).

Also, Jainism and traditional Buddhism (i.e. not the Tibetan kind) are atheist, so it's not a modern phenomenon.

[proviisori]

Ok... maybe term religion should be replaced by term belief.

Then atheism could be included even it is not a religion.

[Kuciwalker]

Atheism is represented by the Free Religion civic, IMO.

/is an atheist

[proviisori]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Atheism is represented by the Free Religion civic, IMO.

/is an atheist

well... No it's not... Free religion is a right to practise a religion of your choise. It is not the same thing as not to believe in god of other supernatural concepts.

[Nikolai]

But you are allowed to believe in nothing at least, that's more than you can say of for instance a theocracy.

[proviisori]

Yep but still.. it is not the same thing.

[Bobby Chicken]

It seems my atheism idea is being received much better than I had expected. I thought I was going to be flamed by a bunch of atheists who said, we aren't a religion, how dare you call us that, yata, yata, yata, yata. I realize that the major flaw with this is that you don't have atheist temples, but, at least in its original form, their were no Confusian temples either, just accademies. As for the civics, I think the USSR had a very powerful atheist theocracy. We wouldn't normally call it that, but think how closely the effects matched that of theocracy in the game. A better millitary, it appears they had one. No spread of non-state religion, yes indeed. Their aren't exactly atheist missionaries either, but atheists definitely spread their religion; I think its now the third largest behind Christianity and Islam. But I don't think the names typically used for atheism should hold anyone from putting this into a game. All opposed, prepare your flamethrowers; all in favor, defend me while I run.

[LordShiva]

We (atheists) aren't a religion

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by Flamer(fin)
Atheism should be a option. As scientific outlook on world is so strong in western world.

I know that many people are in fact atheist (or agnostic) and still they belong to some church 'cause of the traditions it contains. If you are registered to some church does not often mean that you believe in some god.

But has there ever been an entire civilization that propounds this concept?

[samspock]

I think they should have simply made up a couple of dozen fake relgion names then randomly pick on each time a religion was founded.

Another idea would be to allow the founder to name it and pick the icon.

Madeupeism has be founded in a far away land....

[eris]

Originally posted by LordShiva
We (atheists) aren't a religion

Actually, in real life, I will have to point out that the religious denomination Unitarian Universalism strongly supports the humanist/atheist religious choice. Of course, it strongly supports a lot of religious choices, so make of it what you will.

Being who and what I am, I am always offended that Paganism is the default do-nothing-for-you religion, but I can live with that.

For purposes of this poll I voted Zoroastrianism, mainly as an indication that I like the relgions as they are with the minor exception that Islam get used less because it is researched so much later in the tech tree. However, watching people mangle the spelling of Zoroastrianism would be a painful experience to a potential spelling Nazi like me.

And I still want an option to rename the religions just like I can rename units and cities. There's an awful lot of potential for humor and self-glorification there.