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What we were referencing only partially has anything to do with violence, though. Some of the worst problems with abrahamic religions* in general is the other parts of the belief system, that mandate very counterproductive (in regards to the whole progressive worldview thing, in particular if not exclusively) or damaging behaviors. Much of their muckery regarding gender roles and relationships, parts regarding health (faith healing and reliance on god instead of, y'know, medicine, and all the mess involved in related subjects, is something that kills quite a few people yearly and causes a great deal of suffering beside) and safety, sustainability, sexual practices, there's just sort of this sundry list of stuff that has little to nothing to do directly with violence (for all that bits of them definitely inculcate it as a side effect) and yet still causes great heaping piles of generally fairly overt harm. There's charities and positive teachings and whatnot to offset some of that, but it's hard to tell where exactly the balance falls overall, for all it's really easy to tell what the net effect is in specific areas.**

Still, as I said, for all that they're a yoke around the neck in a lot of situations, religious beliefs are still only occasionally the primary cause of the various problems they contribute to, are at times a mitigating instead of exacerbating factor, and, as per various examples throughout history, can probably be worked around fairly capably. They slow a lot of what we've found to be good things down, but it's not an entirely one-way thing, nor is their abolition even remotely a necessary thing for moving forward with the proverbial good shit. Roughest part is probably that religious influence is generally a pretty strong one, regardless as to if it's positive or negative -- very volatile, basically, which is something to contributes to an argument to be leery of it.

*Not necessarily saying similar stuff doesn't exist in other ones, it's just the A-bros are kinda' the big elephants in the room, considering they have a fairly notably chunk of the human population under their umbrella.

**The area I'm personally in being pretty strongly on the net negative side of things is something I've had to spend quite a few years trying to get a handle on vis a vis religion in general, heh, and still prooobably have a ways to go.

That sudden realization that a high strength halfling would make an absolutely incredible baseball batter. Their strike zone would be basically nonexistent.

You can top it, of course. Pixies and whatnot. That's just getting silly, though.

im fairly sure some simple mods could make those factions playable, but i doubt theyd be very interesting to play.

S'already one in the workshop. They're indeed kinda' boring to actually play.

If you're still using the same prescription, true, it can be blurry even if things have improved. S'fairly likely, honestly -- if the glasses aren't tuned right, it's going to cause problems regardless as to how better or worse your eyesight is relative to the prescription. Which you're probably well aware of, heh. Doc may just be off a bit in suggesting you don't need yours updated. Would be my best guess, anyway.

So hey, looks like pataki dropped/is dropping. I can only assume this will make him slightly more relevant to the presidential race :V

... not, really. From most of what I've noticed the historical bits that can be corroborated are often fairly... tenuous, or distorted, at best, when it's not what as near as we've been able to tell outright fabrication. The biblical texts are vaguely useful for history research due to most everything else scraped together from stuff that far back also being pretty terrible, but historical accuracy is not even remotely what I expect from the text. It's not a history book. It wasn't written to maintain historical accuracy, or even to record historical events. It's mostly a collection of oral and/or second (at best) hand stories about fanciful things, with all the hilarious inaccuracies that develop when you're working with something like that over a lengthy period.

Hemming's a bit different than rolling up your pants leg

May have just been dialect mismatch. Hemmed pants are, indeed, pretty alright. The impromptu version is notably more... notable.

They did] warn you when you went in for facial reconstruction and full frontal tattooing, siru. I realize the voodoo hobo queen was very persuasive, but there are consequences...