[Glorantha] Re: Religious controversies in glorantha

[Simon Hibbs]

Peter Metcalfe:

>Me:
> >Malkioni religion doesn't have any of these problems. Their religious
> >texts are provably accurate in every respect. They are fully testable.
>
> I'll have to disagree here.  Just because the texts are provably
> accurate does not necessarily mean they are internally consistent.

True. In the case of the Abiding Book though, the definitive text was
apparently written by the hand of god all in one go, so I would expect
it to be pretty unambiguous compared to the previously extant Malkioni
scriptures.

This is to some extent remeniscent of the situation is Islam. The
Koran includes many passages that re re-tellings of the lives of the
old prophets and old religious teachings. In some details it varies
from other (older) versions and Muslims believe that the Koran
includes the definitive versions and that furthermore it includes all
the information anyone needs to know. If older versions of the stories
or teachings are more extensive or vary in some details then the extra
details are of no value and the variances are inaccuracies. I imagine
the Abiding Book is regarded in a similar way by modern Makioni.

Having said that, the Koran does contain some aparent contradictions,
and some of the Suras seem to be more extensive re-tellings of old
Suras and I doubt the Abiding Book has much of this sort of thing. And
then of course there are the Satanic Verses which are a whole other
kettle of fish, but I digress.


Simon Hibbs