pc: marcoh

[sacredpath]

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[boxcar]

[ He grimaces. ]

Shouldn't we know better than this? To believe the snake?

[sacredpath]

The snake? You mean the salamander?

[she doesn't know a christianity.]

[boxcar]

Oh --

It is a thing, in the scripture. The Garden of Eden, and the snake that tempted humanity's first sin, to disobey by eating fruit from the forbidden tree...

[ Sometimes I am like I better not assume the Funger Bible is the same because this world is sooo fucked up! and then I remember Marcoh literally namedropped Sodom and Gomorrah so I'm like I guess it's just the fucking Bible. Whatever! Whatever!!! Claims this knowledge because apparently it's coming in handy!!! ]

[sacredpath]

Oh.

[well that retroactively makes that so tacky.]

Ew. They really are just so... heavy-handed about it.

[boxcar]

I thought, considering how different it was, that it would be more foreign.

But ay, it's pretty much spot on. And the message is telling.

[sacredpath]

The angels seemed convinced we wouldn't touch it. But I'm not so sure.

[boxcar]

They've... read the scripture... right?

[ The funniest possible thing that could happen is that not a single damn angel knows a lick of the Bible. ]

Or are aware what it promises?

[sacredpath]

They told me about the religion where people worship a baby. Is that the bible?

[boxcar]

Um... maybe? It depends a little bit on the baby...?

[ Is it baby Jesus...? ]

[sacredpath]

[it is.]

It's a baby that grew up and was crucified and died.

[boxcar]

That sounds close enough to Alll-mer that I can see it, I think.

[sacredpath]

So they're at least a little aware.

[boxcar]

Signs are pointing to that they should probably know what that tree means, if they know the basics of it. Every child in the Vatican knows about the Garden of Eden at the least.

[ Y'all can we cut that tree down. ]

[sacredpath]

Do you know what sort of sins are considered the worst by that church?

[boxcar]

...Murder.

[ Like doy. It's kind of grimly funny almost, if Marcoh didn't look a way about it. ]

[sacredpath]

Ah. A common one, unless you're talking about Bhaal.

[but that's neither here nor there.]

[boxcar]

Your Lady?

[ Shadowheart never gave a name. ]

[sacredpath]

No, no, certainly not. [yuck.] That's the god of murder. But the aesthetics of that god are very striking, we'd know. No subtlety there.

[boxcar]

Oh. I guess, then that might be a bit like Gro-goroth.

[ Sometimes you really do just have gods of death and murder. ]

[sacredpath]

[yeah! that's normal.]

Lots of nasty sacrifices, piles of corpses left littered everywhere? I follow Shar. She has subtlety and does not wish to be given someone's entrails as an offering.

[she just wants them destroyed psychologically and then maybe also still killed.]

[boxcar]

A little bit. Grandpa told me it was a bit like that in the olden days. Things like that died out in most of the modern world [ 1942 ] but I learned some places apparently still do it.

[sacredpath]

Good to hear they have mostly died out. I must emphasize that these things are frowned upon, to say the least. But cultists can be found.

[boxcar]

It kind of depends on how old-school you are where I'm from, and with how pious.

...

Oh, I frown upon it too though.

[ Just adding that in, he's no crusader. ]

[sacredpath]

Are you from that sort of faith? Do the old school ones still practice it?

[boxcar]

I mostly go to the Church of Alll-mer. It's the biggest one in the Vatican, probably most people at least worship casually.

It is the one whose scripture has all that stuff I mentioned.