Revolution- Also a religious revolution?

**helmersen** · March 31, 2009, 07:37 AM

I have postet this in another post also, but just wanted a larger crowd to see if this was possible:

When a revolution happens, is it possible to change the religion of the faction also? So, when the Ottoman Empire has a revolution, would it be possible to mod it so that the "rebels" were Orthodox? Or if there were a revolution in, lets say Sweden, the rebels were Catholic. Would have been cool to also changhe the state religion, dont you think?

**LtChambers** · March 31, 2009, 08:01 AM

Yes, but it would only make sense if the opposition missionaries had been VERY successful in the home territory. And denominational conversion is such a chore.

I want a "no state religion" option in the so-called Age of Reason. The history of religious tolerance far preceded this time period (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_religion#Europe), albeit historically ETW's period is following a period of religious intolerance (Thirty Years' War, witch hunts, Inquisition, etc.).

**Totenkopf** · March 31, 2009, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by LtChambers

I want a "no state religion" option in the so-called Age of Reason. The history of religious tolerance far preceded this time period (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_religion#Europe), albeit historically ETW's period is following a period of religious intolerance (Thirty Years' War, witch hunts, Inquisition, etc.).

Interesting, but most states maintained religion as a means on maintaining the status quo and diplomacy. Even if religion was used in a pragmatic sense, atheism never caught on at a state level and trying to impose it on your citizens and others would've resulted in riots.

**LtChambers** · March 31, 2009, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Totenkopf

Interesting, but most states maintained religion as a means on maintaining the status quo and diplomacy. Even if religion was used in a pragmatic sense, atheism never caught on at a state level and trying to impose it on your citizens and others would've resulted in riots.

The lack of imposing a religion (i.e. freedom of religion) does not impose a lack of religion on the people (i.e. athiesm, or even agnosticism). Being over-tolerant can irritate some people though...especially the intolerant ones.

**Musthavename** · March 31, 2009, 08:14 AM

This isn't a basic feature, and I doubt you could mod it in.

You can very easily change a faction's religion in the stratpos file, it's a one liner. Problem is, they'll still build religious buildings of their previous religion, and all their regions will still obviously be loyal to their original religion. [I tried this turning the Knights of St.John into Protestants. It worked, but Malta was still obviously 100% Catholic, and I built Catholic Churches].