DESCRIPTION
This mod adds Atheism, Antitheism, Agnostic, Secular, LaVeyan Satanism, Secular Humanism, and Deism as state religions. I personally thought they needed to be put in as no one has done it, until now. For all who have been waiting for this here it is. Please feel free to rate on whether you enjoyed this mod or not. Also, rate the mod on quality, and not your religious preference. Don't let your blind hatred for the Nonreligious ruin the mod for others ^_^
NOTE: The nonreligious religions Atheist, Agnostic, and Antitheist should appear after 1522. Laveyan Satanism should be after 1597. Deism, Secular Humanism, and Secular should appear after 1682.
About Atheism:
Atheism is the lack of faith or belief of a upper power, normally referred to a God. A person that is Atheist chooses not to believe in a God because of, normally, seeing such things impossible, illogical, or just plain wrong when compared to the world around them. From how an Atheist would see it, Gods are nothing, but imaginary people that humanity created as a way to explain things and to build morals. Many also see the bible as a book full of stories and to be all but real.
"Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived." -Issac Asimov
Atheist Effects:
You also get -100 prestige when first converting. -5% tech cost, -10% embracement cost, and -1 missionary strength in provinces with this religion.
About Agnostic:
A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.
"I don't believe in Heaven and Hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life -- the only thing I know to exist -- to be wasted." -George Clooney
Agonistic Effects:
You also get -100 prestige when first converting. +1 tolerance to heretics and +2 tolerance to heathens.
About Antitheism:
Wiki Definition: Antitheism (sometimes anti-theism) is active opposition to theism. The term has had a range of applications; in secular contexts, it typically refers to direct opposition to organized religion or to the belief in any deity, while in a theistic context, it sometimes refers to opposition to a specific god or gods.
"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful." -Christopher Hitchens
Antitheism Effects:
You also get -100 prestige when first converting. +5% missionary strength, -3 tolerance to heathens, and -2 missionary strength in provinces with this religion.
LaVeyan Satanism:
LaVeyan Satanism is a philosophy and new religious movement founded in 1966 by American author and occultist Anton Szandor LaVey. The religion's teachings are codified in The Satanic Bible and overseen by the Church of Satan. Its core philosophy is based concepts of individualism, egoism, epicureanism, self-deification and self-preservation, and propagates a worldview of natural law, materialism, Lex Talionis, and mankind as animals in an amoral universe. Adherents to the philosophy have described Satanism as a non-spiritual religion of the flesh, or "...the world's first carnal religion". The religion is atheistic, rejecting the existence of gods and other supernatural beings. Practitioners do not believe that the character of Satan literally exists and do not worship him. Instead, Satan is viewed as a positive archetype who represents pride, carnality, liberty, enlightenment, undefiled wisdom, and of a cosmos which Satanists perceive to be motivated by a "dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things".
"Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years." -Anton LaVey
LaVeyan Satanism Effects:
You get -100 prestige when first converting. -1 Global unrest and -10% stability cost.
Secular Humanism:
Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or a god. It does not, however, assume that humans are either inherently evil or innately good, nor does it present humans as being superior to nature. Rather, the humanist life stance emphasizes the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ethical consequences of human decisions. Fundamental to the concept of secular humanism is the strongly held viewpoint that ideology—be it religious or political—must be thoroughly examined by each individual and not simply accepted or rejected on faith. Along with this, an essential part of secular humanism is a continually adapting search for truth, primarily through science and philosophy. Many Humanists derive their moral codes from a philosophy of utilitarianism, ethical naturalism, or evolutionary ethics, and some, such as Sam Harris, advocate a science of morality.
"Secular Humanist suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, then even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it." -Tom Flynn
Secular Humanism Effects:
You get -100 prestige when first converting. -5% idea cost, +2 tolerance to own, and -2 missionary strength in provinces with this religion.
Secularism:
Secularity (adjective form secular,[1] from Latin saecularis meaning "worldly" or "temporal") is the state of being separate from religion, or not being exclusively allied with or against any particular religion. Appears after 1682.
Secularism Effects:
You get -100 prestige when first converting. +3 tolerance to Heretics, +4 tolerance to Heathens, missionary strength -30%, -20% stability cost, and Religious Unity +100%.
Deism:
belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
"If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God..
Deism:
You get -100 prestige when first converting. +2 tolerance to heathens and +10% institution spread.
Heretics:
Atheist
Agnostic
Antitheism
LaVeyan Satanism
Deism
Secular Humanism
Secular
Other Information:
Updates:
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CHANGELOG
v1.1.1 - Released 2023-12-07
-Fixed a packaging issue preventing the mod from loading correctly from the Paradox Plaza.
v1.1 - Released 2023-11-10
-Updated to 1.36.
REQUIREMENTS
Mods for Europa Universalis IV
Full game
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