Church
OOC NOTE: Several pages may have incorrect information regarding the Church. Where possible, these should be updated to match what is detailed here. In particular, while Catholic is a meaningful adjective, this wiki shouldn't contain any reference to Christianity (which, whether true or not, has been forgotten some time in the next 8000 years)
The word church has 3 possible meanings, being the 3 parts of the Divine Trinity:
- The Catholic Church (sometimes The Church or The Church in Heaven; sometimes (heretically) God) is an intangible, omniscient and perfect force which is the source of all good in the universe. Some cults believe that the Church and the universe are one and the same, while others envision their deity as being as close as the other side of a map, as complex as the universe but intelligent and structured (in which case the Vaultof Heaven can be seen as the layer in between)
- The Terran Church (sometimes The Church or Terra) is an organisation blessed with dominion over the world of men, a physical manifestation of the Divine Church. Ruled by the Hierarchs and 7 Grand Synods, it is the only perfect thing in our world and cannot be questioned.
- The Mortal Church (otherwise known as The Pope, or The Church Made Flesh) is one man who rules over the church. The only part of the church to be mortal (and therefore fallible), the Pope is a connection between man and divinity.
(it should be noted that the word Church never describes a building; for that, see Chapel or Cathedral)
How did the (Terran) Church get so powerful?
- how The Church and the Bible become Law?
- Ah ... that's something I do need to find a way of writing. Hard to do, because that's old enough history to be "its always been that way" from an IC perspective
- Someone highly religious develops FTL travel; the church builds Temple ships, and you're only allowed to use them if your government is willing to play by their rules
- (because obviously a ship that goes outside the material world is entering the Vault of Heaven, so they need to protect it and make sure sinners don't go there)
