Category:Religion in Goblytania

The Church in Goblytania is ancient institution, which has risen hand in hand with the empire and the Trade Guilds.

Like everything else in goblytania its a place of great paradox you have many old and storied institutions, encrusted with gold and jewels but you also have the parish priest doing gods work amongst the poorest places (often with little more wealth than the people they minister to).

The great churches, cathedrals and abbeys, enjoy good living during the famine and are very attached to the tithes often at a local level enshrined in law, so when the war broke out most of the bigger orders and buildings sided with the establishment "to keep the rule of law" and a few of the more out of touch went full fascisti, quite rightly seeing the communists and anarchists as a threat to their way of life.

However out in the fields and poorer places, the local priests an poorer orders of monks and nuns, who saw their purpose as guiding and protecting the poor and weak so were a natural fit for the communists and for some of the more radical the anarchists also.

the Alberto-Marcusian heresy

like most religions the church in GCW rose by tromping up to more primitive and localised religions and saying you know your god "Mopangtu" hes really a aspect of our good "Franciso" look at the parallels! etc.

By this method lots of local gods ended up as Saints and angels, and the church grew, of course and where your in the fertile middle grounds without extremes of weather or hot steaming swamps full of left over dinosaur's it works fine, but when you go to far into the cold blasted north or the hot sweating malarial south the gods that grow in those places are harsh and fierce.

Of course the church was slow and patient and both places were absorbed but it also changed the church the church's symbol has always been a unnamed martyr crucified on a "X" ancient dinosaur bones.

but in the harsh places of the north he Gained a name "albertus" often referred to as "albert on bones" theological scholars don't know when it happened but they do know it was caused by absorption of a religion based around a tribal chieftain being crucified in a similar fashion, in the deep south where even a tiny mistake can unleash a painful often venomous or biting based death, there was a local god who walked the swamps on great long stilts made of the bones of sinners, his mane was "Maricucia of the bone sticks", when the goblytanian church arrived this was quickly subverted into "Marcusio"  often refered to the as the "stick and bones" or the "stick man".

As young and passionate religions are want to do, these two new sects started to roll back through believers back into the central lands, it took a 100 or so years but the followers of "Albert on the bones" and the "Marcus the stick man" were set to meet.

Because they were young religions from harsh places it didnt take long for violence to erupt which over a period of the next 150 odd years culminated including many schisms and divisions in the church