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I'd love to see support for progressivist religious sects. Reformist situations that embrace egalitarian values and yank the concept of religion away from its stereotypical association with inflexible conservatism

@Thomas FGM is actually usually pretty tied to religious fundamentalism, with some of its biggest offenders believing themselves to be doing god's will

Small correction. FGM (Mutilation) is actually a cultural practise, it does not have a religious basis.
(So it would affect ethnic minorities/conservative sliders)

You may also wish to add 'honor' punishments as a relevant cultural practise too.

Is there a feature or option here which would make the Religious group pleased with certain forms of welfare? A lot of organized religions, or at least denominations thereof, seem to support welfare and/or charity (think christian democrats in Europe, liberation theology in South America, islamist social work in the Muslim world etc.). I've always found it a bit odd that the Religious block doesn't care squat about welfare issues.

What about Creationist research funding?

Where's my tax on infidels :'(

@sir Nils Olav i do have a problem with evoltion but its mostly things to do with the theroy. but heres the thing both creatnism and evoltion can be correct keep in mind were talking about a being with infinte power (created time space and our universe in one day) so he could have created everything with a gentic history and have gentic mobility. cause rember from a religious point of veiw we are not our bodies we are a soul in possesion of a bodie.

@Takkun What I meant was that not all religious people believe in Young Earth Creationism, especially in Europe. There are many different types of Creationism, like Old Earth Creationism. However, most religious people DO have a problem with evolution, but they don't argue that you should teach Young Earth Creationism instead, but that you should teach what is called Intelligent Design. The ID-movement is big group with a huge diversity of views regarding theology. Some believe in six days creation, others believe that it was long sequence and others even believe in evolution by natural selection but thinks it doesn't cover everything. That's why it's more appropriate to have intelligent design instead of creationism

I clicked subscribe but the mod isn't appearing in the list. Is there a direct download?

lol that pic!

@Sleeping Dragon

Not true, especially for Jews. You shouldn't use people you know as your main argument. Check this link. [en.wikipedia.org]

Of course everybody will ban all religious buildings

That isn't true. All Christians I know are Creationists. Same with Most Jews I know.

Hey, could you also change the Creationism-Evolotion simmulation to Inteligent Design-Evolution? I think that's more appropriate since most religious people are not creationists

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Napa valley, California. I live near a decent sized Seventh-day Adventist enclave and some of the more conservative (and consequentially older) Adventists have argued for it. Although a lot of the local parents have told me that they've circumcised for religious reasons. They mostly quote the same passages from the Old Testament that Jews do and rarely will quote Paul's circumcision of Timothy in the Book of Acts.

Thank you. =)

I know about the Israel mod but sadly, I never managed to make it work... I thought about trying making one myself but never acted on the idea.
That story about Christian fundamentalists intrigues me. Where do you live? So far, I've never heard of religious circumcision for Christian.

I've seen that somebody did make an Israel mod and I've heard some of the Christian fundamentalists near where I live talk about how they want that. Just an idea though.

I love your mod btw.

By the way, if any person with actual coding skills is interested in a partnership, don't hesitate to send me a message. =)

@Hikaru Good ideas except perhaps the mandatory circumcision. Even though some policies come from non-christian countries, they can make sense. However, the mandatory circumcision only make sense in the case of Israel or islamic nations (as far as I know). By the way, I was always interested in making a thematic modpack for islamic states (mostly Maghreb and Machrek) but my coding skills are a bit too limited...

@Feurisson I don't see what you mean. Balancing religion and science within the states can already be done through your policy choices. Beyond that, it is a matter of doctrine within religion on which the state has no capacity to act. Unless we're going down the road of direct state intervention in religion. Actually, I'll think about it.

Military chaplains, government subsidized religious charities, banning of unkosher foods, religious censorship board (priests replace the MPAA/RIAA/ESRB as the country's ratings board) and mandatory circumcision (especially since it can be banned already) would all be good inclusions.

Embrace modern science, maybe? That is something that really tends to lack in the game. Could boost liberals, be unpopular with conservatives and increase membership in the "religious" group

Any suggestions? I've stopped working on D3 but I might go back at it if I have some ideas.

How about some less authoritarian policies? There should be enough possbilities for liberal or more "harmless" ones, too.

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Sorry for any errors or stuff left out, It's late.
Best of luck.

Religious Laws: These laws allow crimes against religion to be illegal, strengthen existing religious laws, increase religious regulation, and allow laws to focus on moral belief. These laws usually focus on crime and punishment, and related problems.

Religious +++, Liberal (High, or Very High reduction), Crime --, Everyone -, Legal Aid (Small price increase), Religious Income +.

Secularist Tax: Secularists must pay tax for their denial or hatred of religion. Failure to pay this tax may result in arrest or religious conversion.
Liberal --, Religious ++, Everyone (Very small reduction), Liberal Membership (Small reduction), Religious Membership (Small addition), Crime (Very small reduction).

Religious Technology: Funding for e-bibles, prayer machines, religious smartphones, etc will be in place. They replace the older technology, and improve on the design while still keeping it's religious value.
Religious (Small-Normal increase), Technology + (Expanding of technology), Religious Membership ([Very] Small Reduction), Liberal +

Religious Symbols on Currency: This policy will allow the inclusion of religious symbols on currency, and may or may not increase the current value of money. (Depending on the amount). This also allows banks to sell these special currencies.

I like this mod, it deserves more popularity. (+1)

SUGGESTIONS:

Ban of Religious Symbols: No Crusifixes, Stars of David, etc. Cosmetics that have these symbols will be recalled, and religious buildings take their symbols down.
Liberal +++, Religious ---, Capitalists -, Self Employed - (For their loss of business), SE membership (Very Small Reduction), GDP (Very small reduction), Religious Membership --.

Missionary Subsides: Subsidise for teaching others religion internationally, while doing some basic charity work.
Religious +, Liberal - (Goes to neutral at max due to the charity work), International Relationships +.

Religious Homeless Shelters: Provide room for the homeless and poor, give them food, etc. However, they must spread the religion of the shelter.
Religious +, Socialist +, Poor +, Homelessness --, etc.

Mod seems very interesting. I'll take it!

And here's the update. Some policies are pretty extremists (ban atheism or religious police) and some are pretty moderate in the spirit of the first wave of policies (religious holidays, religious charity tax break). I hope you will enjoy it.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to balance between extremist policies and moderate ones.
There is no need for a ban religion policy. There is already a very good mod available offering specifically that policy (and only that one). I consider it covered. There was a similar case with the religious institutions tax from another pack but I thought it was underestimating the revenue much like the import tariff in the vanilla game.

Why no "ban religion"?

I concur with Dante. I wouldn't mind more extreme religious policies (Inquisition, a State religion, mandated atheism (if you want to go communist), etc.). But so far I think you are doing an excellent job.

As a soical conservative I really love a lot of these new policies!

I think that more extreme religious policies would be a really cool and fun feature!

Oh, and quick note! I've started a Tourism policies pack aimed at giving another (not so smooth) road to go for developing your economy!

A big thank you to everyone who subscribed!
I'm currently thinking about updating the mod. Some balancing is planned. I'm considering removing corporate religious regulations completely or breaking it into various smaller policies. Any feedback is most welcome!

I'm also hesitating between two directions to start with. One possibility is to keep with moderate policies. The other is more ambitious and would be aimed at implementing much more controversial religious policies inspired by less democratic states and the Extremism dlc such as the religious police (Saudi Arabia), paramilitary religious corps (Iran), religious courts, ban of blasphemy, ban of proselytism.
While the second option may be fun, it's not that different from the current possibility of playing the religious dictatorship game and I might be more inclined to continue with diversifying playing with religion.

What do you think, people?

Dude this is amazing.

More policies! Whooopwhooopwhooopwhooopwhooop :D

just subscribed hope it works

It works just fine for me and I don't see how to solve this. We'll see if other people have the same issue. I've asked on the official forum for help. We'll work from there. =)

It doesn't? I followed Cliffski method... Weird. I'll look into it. Thanks.

I just now subsrcibed, but it does not work. I like the idea of this though.