Questions tagged [belief]
This tag should be used for questions related to religious beliefs in your fictional world.
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Conditions to help Paganism survive until a Revival Movement
In my world, the Northern Kingdoms are the equivalent to Europe. Like Europe, in the Middle Ages, their version of Christianity began replacing old Pagan religions and gods.
However, in my world, ...
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What conditions could help the Roman Catholic Papacy revive Paganism successfully to reduce Protestantism?
In this alternate history, the Papacy becomes worried when those such as Martin Luther began complaining about the Church's practices. At this point, Luther breaks away, beginning Lutheranism. Fear of ...
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How can I make my fantasy cult believable?
In my world, there is a notorious cult. Despite its weird (and comical) origins, it manages to be one of the most infamous cults ever in existence. Originally, it was one big cult, formed during their ...
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How to make pagan religions popular again [closed]
In my medieval fantasy world, Christianity, or at least it's parallel universe equivalent, is the most dominant religion. However, later in my world, pagan beliefs start to become popular again and ...
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What makes a religion popular? [closed]
There have been many things asking on how to make a fictional religion. As I was making my world's religion, I wondered: what would make people want to believe in it? What also gave me the idea is of ...
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Theoretically, can a real religion exist in a high fantasy world? [closed]
In my world, there are multiple religions, and one of them is Christianity. While it exists in our world, there are some differences, including:
Changing of locations and places
A few characters are ...
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How could a church maintain the illusion of an Eternal Flame for hundreds of years?
In the world I am developing, a group called the Garotakor Kobark base their belief system on a fire that has burned consistently for hundreds of years. It has been contained within a step pyramid-...
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Religion For Dogs [closed]
I’ve been developing a world in which humans have disappeared, and pedigree dogs have returned to their country of origin. The story is set in the UK, roughly 3 years after the event. My idea was that ...
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Hypothetical religion [closed]
If some society had religion that didn't believe in eternal damnation with a maximum sentence in hell being 15 billion years and then all people, even the worst people go to heaven, could this ...
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How would religion be affected if two nations who worshipped the same gods went into war?
So my world has two nations who are at a constant war for land and resources, destroying the landscape all around their always changing frontier. But this war is just a secondary plot which drives the ...
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If I believe something, it becomes true- how do I convince myself I'm stealthy? [closed]
This is my first question on Worldbuilding, so hopefully I can get the format and so on correct.
In my world, some characters can "will" what they believe to be true into being. If they believe ...
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How can I make this religion believing in "creating time traveling gods through science" believable?
I want to popularize the following or a similar belief.
In many thousand years people will travel back in time to give us an afterlife, if we make it possible, by going the steps, that will lead to ...
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Can you kill an idea? [closed]
In a world where a "god" constitutes nothing more nor less than a critical mass of belief in a particular concept or ideal with a name plastered onto it. The gods are magical in nature being created ...
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What may bring god to help atheist? [closed]
As I made gods of my world a bit crazy, at least in comparison with most expected behaviour of gods (because normal gods would not teach people to not rely upon them - or not?), there are some open ...
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To whom should god pray? [closed]
Once I heared somewhere (I am not sure where, may be it was on Christmas Midnight Mass - but it does not matter) one very strange short tale - that man entered to church, that was empty excepting god ...
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Existence of clerics when god walks on earth
When people believe in the same god, it is possible that they found church*. And most churches have some clerics of various degree. But most religions have some clerics, even if they are not organised ...
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Believing in non-existent beings
I'm inspired by this comment.
Let's say "Supernatural beings are dependent on people believing they are real."
Before they are born into existence, how can people believe they are real?
How can ...
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