Timeline for How can a religion rationalize worshipping deities it has enslaved?
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| Sep 27, 2021 at 17:38 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | I suspect the first thing you need to do is overcome the unconscious bias that "religion" by necessity must be something like the Abrahamic religions where the deity(ies) are omnipotent, all-encompassing entities. Consider the Greek myths about Sisyphus: although (eventually) punished, they show Sisyphus, a mortal, pulling off cons against and even trapping gods time after time. The myths show gods that are worshiped, but that at the same time can be manipulated and used. | |
| Sep 27, 2021 at 7:12 | answer | added | INPU | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 19:39 | answer | added | vsz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 11:28 | comment | added | 4.12.22.4.18.0. | That sounds similar to how the romans adored the greater gods (Jupiter, Bacus, Marte, Mercury, Venus, etc.) but they "employed" minor gods/familiar spirits for small things like protecting the family, preventing the food from rotting, etc. | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 11:13 | answer | added | aggregate1166877 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 8:39 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 8:30 | comment | added | MolbOrg | @Cireo same, was looking for my comment. | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 3:58 | comment | added | Cireo | Getting strong deja-vu, I feel like a very similar question has been asked before, even down to the phrasing, but I don't see it. | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 0:25 | answer | added | redpaprika | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 22:17 | comment | added | Goodies | Why can't a demon be tortured ? suppose it will help cleansing them to be more holy ? Even prophets can be tortured, no problem ! their "suffering releases us from our sins" they say.. In religion, anything goes. There is always a story. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 20:43 | answer | added | Sonvar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 18:38 | comment | added | candied_orange | See also the tv trope of the shipwrecked hero, washed up on an island, worshiped by natives, and sacrificed to the volcano. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | jamesqf | Consider that the people at the top of a religious organization, and in particular the founders, often don't actually believe in the religion. So someone who figures out how to bind a daemon realizes that he can use it to convince the gullible to follow his religion, thus giving him power. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 16:56 | comment | added | Cain | Also worth reading N.K. Jemison's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms for an example of enslaved-but-somewhat-worshipped-gods. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 16:48 | answer | added | Dario Quint | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 15:43 | comment | added | Klaus Haukenstein | One of the main characters in Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker is worshipped by people who also keep their deities trapped in a "paradise" where they're not allowed to leave -- not quite enslavement but creates some interesting dynamics that I think are worth looking in to. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 15:16 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | ojs | Related, real life bear worship involved hunting and capturing bears. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 14:07 | comment | added | j4nd3r53n | Ah, yes, the god of evolution. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 12:30 | comment | added | Chris H | @j4nd3r53n when submitting a question here, perhaps we should present the user with a dialog box: Have you checked for a Discworld precedent? [Yes] [I'll do it now]. Also The Last Continent has an unworshipped example | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 9:18 | answer | added | Tim Pederick | timeline score: 34 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 9:14 | answer | added | Reverent Lapwing | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 8:11 | answer | added | toolforger | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 6:57 | comment | added | j4nd3r53n | not quite answer, but perhaps a hint of an inspiration: Gods are created by human belief, so being dependent of faith, they will be slaves of humans (read Terry Pratchett: 'Small Gods') | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 6:19 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 23, 2021 at 23:17 | answer | added | Cadence | timeline score: 27 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 22:41 | answer | added | user72058 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 22:30 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 22:07 | answer | added | LuizPSR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 22:05 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 21:50 | history | asked | Incognito | CC BY-SA 4.0 |