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zarawesome · 05-21-2021, 04:10 AM

Some thoughts on this:

- Historically, the Christian church position is that if you're asking someone for magical favors, and it's not Jesus (or someone that's a big friend of Jesus, in a pinch), it's a demon. Yrthian churches might be forced to become more flexible in this regard.
- One workaround: If an elemental has IQ and can speak, it might be possible to baptize them.
- Ars Magica talks a lot about the debates of church and magic, but the power balance is different: the Divine is expressly more powerful than any magic.
- The use of elementals for convenience might be of interest to orthodox Jews, which have spent a long time discussing what counts or doesn't count as work in the Shabbat (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat)

05-21-2021, 04:10 AM	#7
zarawesome Join Date: Mar 2020	Re: [Banestorm] What's the religious position on elementals among the Abrahamic faith Some thoughts on this: - Historically, the Christian church position is that if you're asking someone for magical favors, and it's not Jesus (or someone that's a big friend of Jesus, in a pinch), it's a demon. Yrthian churches might be forced to become more flexible in this regard. - One workaround: If an elemental has IQ and can speak, it might be possible to baptize them. - Ars Magica talks a lot about the debates of church and magic, but the power balance is different: the Divine is expressly more powerful than any magic. - The use of elementals for convenience might be of interest to orthodox Jews, which have spent a long time discussing what counts or doesn't count as work in the Shabbat (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat)