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Originally Posted by lonnarin  P If you raised a corathite and he kept on killing, then your god would be upset with you, if the wicked man instead turned to good, you god would be happy. |
that always depend on the fact that if your god bases that person actions on his own will or do it at your expense. I don't usually mix RL religions to game but since it has already been done.
If you found a man bleeding to death in the street and you brought him to the hospital and the next week he goes out and kills 10 people. Does God hold that against you? no. Why? because you did what he wanted and it is to help your fellow man. And plus you didn't know who he was.
The same way in game. Unless you use divine relation you do not know if the person laying dead in front of you is from a different deity alignment from you and even then you do not know which deity.
Even then, if you take a few factors into account of things your character may not know like, he has this deity, was raised to follow it, but does not anymore because he woke up (but due to time constraint the player either did not right a cdt for it explaining how he came to not follow him, or the admin did not have time to switch it yet). Or if even with that deity he is not in fact a good man bent on helping other. Remember what i wrote before. Depending on your alignment you're personal view of you deity might defer and cause inner struggle, happens all the time even in RL.
Since you don't know that, would your deity really frown on your for being generous and compassionate, when you have no clue who this person is? Now if you knew that character (and I mean character vs character knew each other) and knew what kind of person he was, that would be a different story.
And I know there was something about the character alignment not mattering that much on the views to his faith or something like that in the past that was brought up. But truly, if the alignment is the indication of how a character would react to situations, it is also how he would personally view his own faith. If the alignment is not the basis on the character reactions and views, then take them out. But thats an other debate.
I'm saying this because of this. Alignments are more in the line of the person moral. You chose to follow a faith, you do not chose your morals. People can change faith easily but to change the very fabric of their essence it's almost impossible at the very least a life time undertaking.