Post by Isus Jarode on Mar 24, 2007 22:21:36 GMT -5
Description: The Lochan (Low-kaun) religious structure was formerly the most powerful and influential church in all of Bremelia, carrying the support of nearly seventy-five percent of the population regardless of its policy toward equal religious right. The religion believes in Lochass (Low-cuss), a single entity that created all things - Science and Magic - at the rise of existence and forged them into one blended universe of balance and beauty. Followers of the religion claim that Lochass is the very source of all Magic and Scientific law, as it has bound itself to objects and living things upon Terra and the universe itself, therefore acting as an infinite source of Magic, and an infinite enforcer of natural occurrences. The religion also claims that Lochass grants all sentient beings particular "rights," as will be listed.
[li]The Right of Life - this can be interpreted by pacifists that war is wrong, or that murder and execution are unholy; however, its original intent was meant to describe that all men and women have the keen right to choose the general path of their lives.
[/li][li]The Right of Liberty - Any superior or governing power, while given the permission to create slightly restricting laws to protect the people, cannot oppress or restrict the general "Life Laws" of any Bremelian, which include the right to choose one's own path, the right to choose one's own religion, the right to be given reasoning behind official accusations and arrests, and the right to defend one's self if hostily engaged (often the interpretation that war and violence is accepted) and so forth.
[/li][li]The Right of Equality - The key to the Lochan and even Bremelian ideology is not always the guard of the first two Rights, but rather the third: the Right of all perspectives, paths and methods to be considered without bias or discrimination. This has led to the open acceptance of both Magic and Technology, and the belief of unifying both into one tremendously moderate power instead of separating the two into separate units. This has led to the tremendous power of the old Republic, as well as the ambitions of the fabled Alchemists.
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The Church itself could be considered significantly Laissez-faire in actions and policy, as it believes in the tolerance of all things if possible. The organization of the Church depended on the region, and some residences were more loose regarding conformity and procedures than its companions. This loose confederation of beliefs that orbited the three key Rights would help lead to the Church's downfall at the end of the Certamen War.
History: Before the fall of the Bremelian Republic, the church was powerful and the symbol of its nation's core beliefs. Many times the United Parliament was given bills that requested Lochan to become Bremelia's official faith; these bills were always turned down. However, after the Certamen War, faith and trust of the Lochan Church quickly began to fall apart. People began to lose heart at the thought that their God had allowed one side of the two powers to invade them, conquer them, and obliterate their powers, while the second side failed to properly push back the attackers. The belief of blending the two powers died in the belief that it lead to stalemate - like the war had - and therefore began to believe that moderation was no longer successful.
Many Bremelians turned away from the Lochan Church and instead chose to follow the belief system of other faiths, or simply chose to become more lenient believers. Either way, as the century passed, the tremendous number of seventy five percent of all Bremelian followers turned into a mere ten percent, as most Bremelians chose to follow their local region's influential faith, the ideals of atheism, or even the simple concept of apathy.
[li]The Right of Life - this can be interpreted by pacifists that war is wrong, or that murder and execution are unholy; however, its original intent was meant to describe that all men and women have the keen right to choose the general path of their lives.
[/li][li]The Right of Liberty - Any superior or governing power, while given the permission to create slightly restricting laws to protect the people, cannot oppress or restrict the general "Life Laws" of any Bremelian, which include the right to choose one's own path, the right to choose one's own religion, the right to be given reasoning behind official accusations and arrests, and the right to defend one's self if hostily engaged (often the interpretation that war and violence is accepted) and so forth.
[/li][li]The Right of Equality - The key to the Lochan and even Bremelian ideology is not always the guard of the first two Rights, but rather the third: the Right of all perspectives, paths and methods to be considered without bias or discrimination. This has led to the open acceptance of both Magic and Technology, and the belief of unifying both into one tremendously moderate power instead of separating the two into separate units. This has led to the tremendous power of the old Republic, as well as the ambitions of the fabled Alchemists.
[/li][/ul]
The Church itself could be considered significantly Laissez-faire in actions and policy, as it believes in the tolerance of all things if possible. The organization of the Church depended on the region, and some residences were more loose regarding conformity and procedures than its companions. This loose confederation of beliefs that orbited the three key Rights would help lead to the Church's downfall at the end of the Certamen War.
History: Before the fall of the Bremelian Republic, the church was powerful and the symbol of its nation's core beliefs. Many times the United Parliament was given bills that requested Lochan to become Bremelia's official faith; these bills were always turned down. However, after the Certamen War, faith and trust of the Lochan Church quickly began to fall apart. People began to lose heart at the thought that their God had allowed one side of the two powers to invade them, conquer them, and obliterate their powers, while the second side failed to properly push back the attackers. The belief of blending the two powers died in the belief that it lead to stalemate - like the war had - and therefore began to believe that moderation was no longer successful.
Many Bremelians turned away from the Lochan Church and instead chose to follow the belief system of other faiths, or simply chose to become more lenient believers. Either way, as the century passed, the tremendous number of seventy five percent of all Bremelian followers turned into a mere ten percent, as most Bremelians chose to follow their local region's influential faith, the ideals of atheism, or even the simple concept of apathy.