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[farfairersoul]

...Do you people actually believe this?

Makers, and I thought the Mar and Precursor legends were overbearing.

[Pauses to clear his throat quietly.]

"There an angel of the Lord appeared to him from a burning bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it was not burning up. 'This is strange!' he said to himself."

[Pause.]

...No, really?

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[mnu_spreadslies]

I like that religion better than any of the ones practiced by the Nigerians around the slum. Especially voodoo. They ate our bodyparts to gain our "powers"... a crude and savage way of trying to earn the use of our weapons that of course did not work. But they still murdered us and consumed us.

I am not intimate with any human religion, but that seems to be the preferable of the two.

[farfairersoul]

[Loooooooong silence.]

They...ate your body parts.

That--

[Are there words for that?]

That is an entirely different type of ridiculous.

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[mnu_spreadslies]

Yes. Our weapons can only be used by our kind, due to biological DNA synchronizing. They were attempting to merge our DNA... by eating us.

Which, as I trust you realize, does not work. Even remotely like that.

[farfairersoul]

Clearly. Genetics do not work that way--what kind of primitive moron would believe otherwise?

[faeriexprincess]

Many people have different view points on what they believe, Razer. What to you may seem 'dumb', to others may seem normal.

Though approaching something on fire does seem rather silly.

[farfairersoul]

Approaching something on fire is idiotic. Believing a religion led by the type of person who would approach a fire just because they found it "strange" goes far beyond idiocy.

From this, I am uncertain these people ever actually met their god properly. It is bizarre.

[faeriexprincess]

[She can't help but laugh, really.]

Yes, but many people need something to believe in, and perhaps had nothing better to follow?

Oh? And have you met the god of your world, Razer?

[farfairersoul]

Not me personally, no.

[Daxter doesn't count, no matter what he may spout.]

But plenty of others have. Recently, even. What would be the point in believing them if no one had ever met them?

[Pause.]

Not that I particularly cared for them to begin with, but that is beside the point. It is rather clear that they exist.

[missmimmi]

I... believe what you are reading is the bible.

[farfairersoul]

That is what is printed on the cover. "The Bible: A Contemporary--"

[Very short pause. Weird word is weird, and sounds weirder when he says it aloud.]

"--English Version."

[missmimmi]

...Ja. That is the language we are speaking right now.

[farfairersoul]

Odd, to me this sounds like Common.

[teethofneedles]

Huh. Well, that's a weird religion if I ever heard of one.

[farfairersoul]

What do you mean? I thought everyone knew that holy beings like to light bushes on fire.

[teethofneedles]

Well, the ones I know look and sound like giant glowing wind chimes, so I guess it's not that weird...

[farfairersoul]

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Well, considering what was recently revealed regarding mine, I don't suppose I can complain.

[electroniccrane]

Only a specific subset of Westerners believe that.

[farfairersoul]

[...what?]

What do the other roundears believe, then?

[electroniccrane]

[The proper derogatory term is "round eyes," Razer.

...Sorry, Batou.]

I doubt many actually believe in the literal circumstance of a talking, burning bush.

Regardless, there are five major religions and hundreds, possibly thousands of smaller ones.

[farfairersoul]

[Oh Major, you're so funny.]

That...is extremely strange. Perhaps almost as much as someone believing that burning plantlife could be the manifestation of a god.

Where I come from, there is one religion. Just one. The thought of there being thousands is well beyond odd.