EuCHO0.NET - (^(0o)^) The Pigatory

"Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of a god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished from sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical."

"Because if the true gods were so tangible and so accessible, then we would no longer be independent creatures set on a journey to find the truth, but merely a herd of sheep needing the guidance of a shepherd and his dogs, unthinking and without the essence of faith."

"The guidance is there, I know. Not in such a tangible form, but in what we know to be good and just. It is our own reactions to the acts of others that show us the value of our own actions, and if we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of god, to show us our way, then we are pitiful creatures indeed."

"Mielikki is my heart. I follow her percepts because were I to write percepts based on my own conscience, they would be the same. I follow Mielikki because she represents what I call truth."

"Such is the case for most of the followers of most of the various gods, and if we looked more closely at the pantheon of the Realms, we would realize that the percepts of the "goodly" gods are not so different; it is the worldly interpretations of those precepts that vary from faith to faith."

"So tell me not of avatars. Show me not your proof that yours is the true god. I grant you your beliefs without question and without judgment, but if you grant me what is in my heart, then such tangible evidence is irrelevant."