Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
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The prompt this week is - Inquisitors
In our world, religions have various ways to keep the faithful, well, faithful. For most religions, apostasy (ceasing to believe) is considered one of the worst sins possible. So every faith has ways to persuade people to keep believing. At the simplest level, it might be ensuring there's someone to talk to (and, in the Church of England, endless coffee mornings....). But in some cases it can escalate to strong peer pressure, formal disciplinary measures, and finally in some cases to actual punishment. At the top end of the spectrum are organisations like the Inquisition, who historically took things to terminal extremes with those they suspected of heresy, blasphemy or apostasy.
How do religions in your setting keep their worshippers in line ? Is religion part of the state, legal but separate, or even illegal ? Can people change their beliefs at will, or are there punishments for those who stop believing ? Who is responsible for ensuring compliance ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
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Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
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STOPThanks for the prompt, I was just thinking that I need to try and move outside my comfort zone and writing I something I always want to do but never make a real go of it, perhaps this time...
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