[The wry smile can practically be heard in his voice.] One does learn to hold one's tongue in their mouths lest it fall into a box. [No, heretics tend to get far worse, for a given definition of heresy, for a given definition of worse.] Although I would suggest that people with those views, if felt strongly enough rather than a curiosity, would not be within the Chantry. Would they not seek another faith, a new religious establishment?
Or form a cult. Or what the Chantry would label a cult. Those tend to flare up brightly but snuff out quickly. There are those who would sing the Chant out of tune with the broader teachings of the establishment. Does that make their interpretation wrong? [But interrogating the text is frowned upon. Whole sections, slashed from the whole because they did not suit the Chantry that most are blind and ignorant to ever having existed. How can it be of the Chant and yet be wrong?]
Perhaps...perhaps there's another angle to this. We bring about our own changes with our own power. But something grants miracles. That isn't us. That can't be us. But miracles are only that because they are convenient and inexplicable, and we call it god, in whatever name that god takes. Let us say for a moment that we do have the power within each of us to call upon something that seems greater than ourselves. That that which we call a miracle is not so inexplicable, that there is no middleman, that we are able to tap into something...
[He makes a quiet, frustrated noise. He still speaks in vague words when what Morrigan seeks is definition and certainty.] Something. Something I do not seem to have a word for. But then the idea stands. If we are to assume we make our own power, then...are the gods as we know them just people who ascended to a point only the rarest few do? But then, you don't hear of new gods. When's the last time you heard of anything that hasn't already existed since before the Ages were named?
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Or form a cult. Or what the Chantry would label a cult. Those tend to flare up brightly but snuff out quickly. There are those who would sing the Chant out of tune with the broader teachings of the establishment. Does that make their interpretation wrong? [But interrogating the text is frowned upon. Whole sections, slashed from the whole because they did not suit the Chantry that most are blind and ignorant to ever having existed. How can it be of the Chant and yet be wrong?]
Perhaps...perhaps there's another angle to this. We bring about our own changes with our own power. But something grants miracles. That isn't us. That can't be us. But miracles are only that because they are convenient and inexplicable, and we call it god, in whatever name that god takes. Let us say for a moment that we do have the power within each of us to call upon something that seems greater than ourselves. That that which we call a miracle is not so inexplicable, that there is no middleman, that we are able to tap into something...
[He makes a quiet, frustrated noise. He still speaks in vague words when what Morrigan seeks is definition and certainty.] Something. Something I do not seem to have a word for. But then the idea stands. If we are to assume we make our own power, then...are the gods as we know them just people who ascended to a point only the rarest few do? But then, you don't hear of new gods. When's the last time you heard of anything that hasn't already existed since before the Ages were named?