Anushasan, a New Religion

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Anushasan, a New Religion

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It has been reported that the people of Khodastan have taken to following a preacher who is preaching a new, offshoot religion of Anushasan (order, discipline, regimentation) that is monotheistic and organized, much more than traditional Ritam. It has not been decided yet whether or not to suppress this movement but the nobles of Khodastan seem quite taken with it and under the tradition of provincial autonomy, there is little the central government can do. Ritam does not have a tradition of crusade either.

This is not especially surprising. Ritam (Dharma) has already seen numerous monotheistic movements and trends, a logic outcome of the combination of monism (pantheism) with the human need for a personal god. Thus the devotion to one deity is not out of the box. The main philosophical problem the philosophers of Aryasht have had with monotheism is the problem of theodicy (the problem of evil) if there is one God who is apparently the source of all good. They got around this problem by polytheism, attributing good happenings to benevolent spirits and evil to malicious ones, or more accurately gods like humans had the capacity for both good and evil depending on their temperaments. This has been solved in Anushasan by having the one being, God be the source of all good and evil. Or rather, God does as he will and whatever he does is by definition natural, so good and evil are human terms. "He gives with one hand, and takes with the other."
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By Hasan's Anus, this is good stuff.

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Aryeztur wrote:theodicy
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Anushasan is hereby folded into Dinilahi and abolished as a separate religion.
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