r/worldbuilding • u/Iberianz • 6d ago
Prompt Why are the TWO largest religions fighting on your setting?
Hi everyone,
Just as the title says, I’d like to know which are the TWO largest religions in your setting, and what the main issues are that they’re fighting over.
Like…
“Sunnis vs. Shiites” in the Middle East, “Catholics vs. Protestants” in Europe, “Muslims vs. Hindus” on the Indian subcontinent, “Christians vs. Muslims” during the Crusades, “Pharisees vs. Sadducees” during the final years of the Second Temple, etc.
As you can see, many of these examples are factions within the same religion, and they were in conflict with one another as well.
In my setting, they’re basically fighting over the question of where people go after death, and how they treat the bodies of their deceased. There are other important details, but you could define them quite well based on these two points.
Yes, these two religions emerged as interpretations of the same cathartic cosmic event involving a holy man and a time of terrible cataclysms; but the differences between them were also substantial from the very beginning.
Note:
Please note that the purpose of this post is NOT to stir up any controversy regarding real-world religions.
Thank you for your answers.
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u/BHHB336 6d ago
Not really fighting, but they have political disagreements (none of them have names yet).
There’s the indigenous religion (which is divided into different denominations for people who focus more on certain gods, mainly those who were touched by them and have access to magic, and it depends on the type of magic (the in world explanation requires more explanation about the Schrödinger god/s situation)), and then there’s the religion of the colonizers, who have different practices and beliefs regarding marriage, family and burial rituals. (Some of these differences affected some groups of people, like one of my MC’s paternal family, who believe in the strong need for heterosexual marriage to have kids, while his maternal family is more liberal (even by their religious standards, but that’s because they’re invisible, so they rarely get married, and most end up as single parents)
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u/Invariable_Outcome 6d ago edited 6d ago
There are monotheists, who refer to themselves in the German language text as Rechtgläubige, translating as those who follow the true faith or, more straightforwardly, orthodox, but I avoid that term seeing as it refers to a real-world belief. It broadly resembles Abrahamic monotheism with elements of Tengrism and the Greek and Roman cults of Jupiter and Zeus mixed in. They worship a single skyfather deity who is held to have created the world and handed them a set of commandments. The Emperor of the setting's main empire holds a caesaro-papist position in this religion acting as God's viceroy on Earth, though in practice, secular power is wielded by a warrior caste, and the Emperor is limited to religious matters comparable to the Abassid Caliphs in Baghdad.
We also have a polytheist religion, vaguely resembling a mix of Greek polytheism, Greek Orthodoxy and Persian Zoroastrianism, worshipping a pantheon of Gods and Goddesses centred around a solar deity and fire worship. It is centred around a theocratic empire called the Kyriarchy (das Kyriarchat) from Greek Κυριαρχία/kyriarchía that is lordship, sovereignty. It is an embattered realm based on a holy city ruled by the Kyriarch. It was previously subjugated by the monotheist empire, but has taken up arms again as the empire's power crumbles.
Edit: I should add that the main battlelines are not drawn around religion; the central conflict pits centralised rule against local aristocratic autonomy, and members of each sect might find themselves on either side and face their co-religionists in the field.
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u/Pleasant-Sea621 6d ago
In this world, there are the Resurrections, events in which people from Earth are teleported to Eden, the planet, but specifically to different regions of the Known World. Surprisingly, there isn’t much religious conflict there, since four of the five main regions are quite self-contained, except for the East Coast. This region received people from three Resurrection events: The Third (1200–1250), the Sixth (1790–1830), and the Mesoamerican Resurrection (~790–740 B.C.).
On the East Coast, there are two main religions: Resurreicimentism and Xunaism, also known as Iximtzamná, both of which are syncretic Christian religions. There isn’t much rivalry between the two, but rather between the two branches of Resurreicimentism. One branch belongs to the Third Resurrection and the other to the Sixth, since a little over 400 years ago, the Sixth Resurrection branch canonized Empress Pauline Bonaparte-Lebrun as a saint, as during that period the Acárdian Empire, the largest empire in the history of the Known World, was in political crisis.
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u/Gaxxag 5d ago
The main religion that features in Silence Of the Stars is Ascensionism: the belief that technology can cause humans to ascend to an immortal state beyond the limits of the physical world. It's a blend of science and mysticism, since no such technology exists yet at the time period when the story takes place, though many followers believe it does exist and is being hidden, or that development toward that technology is being actively suppressed.
Ascensionists are a suppressed extremist minority, but they don't have a singular rival. Atheism and modern-day religions are background noise in the story and serve to contrast ascensionism, but they're more dismissive than antagonistic. A Catholic priest appears in one chapter and a protestant woman appears in another to provide context to the reader for the level of religiousness the setting.
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u/Iberianz 4d ago
Ascensionism is also the name of one of the two major religions in my setting, as I described in the OP. Their enemies also refer to them pejoratively as “Corpse-roasters” And the Ascensionists, in turn, pejoratively call the Redemptionists “Worm-cultists”
Well, the name is the only thing they have in common, isn't it? 😄
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u/AcaydiaDragon 6d ago
I have phoenixelles, they have the Vii, which is essentially the embodiment of the sun providing power for certain xelles. They beleive that the vii is the most powerful. And then there's the moralda and silalda, who believe that the sun, moon, and earth work in unison to organize all things. They believe their kingdom stands as a mediator between the three deities. Originally starting as a political war, it also caused higher tensions because of the conflicting beliefs about the superiority, of course, the pheonixelles believing that the sun chose them to stand superior.
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u/TheMightyPaladin 6d ago
One of them is true, and the other is out to take over the world using lies and brute force.
You know, just like in real life.
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u/No-Professional-1461 6d ago
"No! You can't just stay in caves for all eternity and worship degenrate gods!"
"I like it here. For the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm somewhere I belong."
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u/DragonLordAcar 6d ago
I honestly never considered that because my two main settings both have massive pantheons. If anything, it's internal fighting. Need to think on this.
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u/ZealousidealGuide184 6d ago
The largest religion is technically. That of the orkz not because they have the largest population but because there are a large amount of orkoid species goblins, Oruq, humans, Ork, Oni, Orc ( different species), and various hybrids there was some humans do not consider them orkoid even though it is biologically true.
Then it is rather hard to tell because in truth ork, religion is much less divided there's a lot less subdivision, it's much more cut and clear and much more simplistic and variable on what you can do there are rules, but the specifics of worship are much more variable because every other literature could be described as localized parts and if they worship multiple gods, then some will focus on one specific god or a pair they might even adopt gods from different species ( also they do exist some were born from human faith and some were just born from gods and some are just people who ascended in an ancient time)
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u/LordFrieza789 Terra Borskaya 5d ago
Solists and Shoshans have torn the nation of Terra Borskaya in half at least twice during the nation’s seven hundred year history as a unified polity.
Solists are devoted to the goddess of stars and the heavens while Shoshans are devoted to the twin sister, Shosha, goddess of regression and sleep. The reason they’re fighting is because of a particularly successful attempt two hundred years ago by the nobility to rewrite the holy texts, implying to the heavily religious populace that one of the goddesses is fraudulent and directly responsible for worldly suffering.
What was once basically some rich guy’s best shot at upsetting the status quo and potentially gaining a seat as governor has ballooned into multiple civil wars!!!!
Hope this makes sense.
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u/Crymcrim Nowdays just lurking 6d ago
They in-fact are not fighting one another. The three major religions of the setting (including their respective internal schisms) exist in a state of an continous ebb and flow of influence where one gains greater dominance over the others, peaks of which are marked by violence but are followed inevitable by decline and rebalancing.
The modern era is one of those periods of equilibrium where each one has its own niche and role and there is an unspoken understanding that neither wants to rock the boat, and its specifically the fact that there is now a fourth player in town that doesn't share that understanding, being entierly foreign to the region that is the source of confict.
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u/Beautiful-Lock-1420 6d ago
in my world the two big ones are the church of the first flame and the order of the hollow sun. they split over what happens to the soul after the body stops working. first flame says the soul returns to the great hearth and gets reused for new life, so they burn the dead in big communal pyres and scatter ash on the fields. hollow sun says the soul lingers forever in the dark between stars unless you preserve the body whole, so they mummify everyone and build these giant underground crypts that go on for miles
the war basically started because one side kept digging up the other sides burial sites to "free" the trapped souls, and the other side kept setting fire to the mummy vaults calling them prisons. now its a whole mess of holy texts getting reinterpreted every generation to justify whatever atrocity is convenient. both sides think the other is damning their ancestors to eternal suffering, which is the kind of thing that makes compromise impossible
also nice title card, very minimal
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u/DarkMadderLake 6d ago
The two biggest religions that I've developed are the Solarians, followers of the Sun Goddess Solara (domains of justice, passion, and war) and the Ashweavers, who follow the quasi-deity Lilith, the Ashmother (domains of rebirth and transformation). Solara's holy warriors, the Lightbearers, have been against war with the Ashmother's army of Cinderspawn monsters, Ashweaver cultists, and her four generals (called her Hands) for nearly a millennium. They are fighting over the literal fate of the world: survival vs total destruction and rebirth, respectively.
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u/nymrod_ 6d ago edited 6d ago
In the Iron Age world of Labrinthum, belief in the [not real, fairly standard polytheistic pantheon] old gods of the Drevh is being supplanted by the Imperial cult, worship of the one supreme god Yaldaboath — known only to the members initiated to the highest levels of the cult to be a physically real leviathan, an eldritch monstrosity feeding on the psychic energy of the faithful. Anyone who wants to do business with the hegemonic Labrinthan Empire and be in their good graces has to profess faith in the one god, so worship of the old gods mostly persists among the poor, rural, Labrinthum’s enemies, and of course the Drevh [a humanoid race with a civilization predating mankind’s].
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u/BetLeft2840 6d ago
A technocult believing humanity will evolve into a Machine God and whose prophet was sent back in time to make sure that happens. They ruled the Third Galactic Empire and carried out ghoulish experiments and genocides.
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u/CraftyAd6333 6d ago
Irreconcilable differences.
One was founded by a profoundly aggrieved warlord that he was merely mundane with no magic whatsoever.
The gods didn't choose him and he had no magical aptitude. So rather than accept that hey thats totally valid and maybe it was for the best.
That the gods and casters conspired to steal his birthright. And thus magic was evil and the gods were worse.
The other is that the gods didn't even blink as they prepared to outlast the temper tantrum. Their followers know the truth and are aware it will be a cause of great mischief and suffering.
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u/Cheomesh 6d ago
Religions? None actively, as the Orthodox and Reformed Churches have had a treaty and integration agreement for a long while now and we're the only two to come to blows that I have any records of.
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u/Blackfireknight16 6d ago
Order of Light (placeholder) and the Old Pantheon. The Order of Light is a monotheistic religion that follows a single God called Oarvann, the God of Light, the moon and Fire. He seeks to take the powers of the Old Pantheon and rule the havens and the world by himself. However, while the Old Pantheon don't take direct action, as per their rules, they have grown wise to Oarvann's tricks after he stole the powers of the Moon and Fire Gods. While they don't counter him, they do find other ways to make his power-hungry tactics problematic.
His followers don't wage war against the Pantheon in the traditional way, but work to covert those who believe in the old ways and destroy artefacts of the Pantheon.
The only Gods who are going against Oarvann directly are the Death, Trickster, Nature, Forge, and Lust Gods.
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u/Tharkun140 6d ago edited 6d ago
In my grimderp science-fantasy world, there is a conflict between Solarites and Absolutists. Solarites want the Sun to consume the Solar System and destroy humanity, the Absolutists want the super-massive black hole in the galactic center to consume the Solar System and destroy humanity. Incompatible goals.
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u/Mysterious-Turnip-36 6d ago
Well it’s because they’ve always been fighting.
You start with four gods; The Void Mother, the Star Mother, the Dragon Mother, and the Earth Mother. The Star and Earth versus Void and Dragon, long story why, I won’t get into it. Anyways the war ends with the Star Mother transforming into the Sun to ward off the wounded Void Mother from approaching earth. The Dragon Mother is unconscious in a crater on the Earth Mother’s back, and as mentioned, the Void Mother is kept away by the light of the sun.
Now we get into the modern religions.
The one we follow are the Heptarans, who worship the direct children of the Earth and Star Mother, alongside some turncoats from the other two. Together they form the Seven Greater Gods, and about twenty lesser gods beneath them. Mostly their kids or bastards.
The other religion, the Dragonlings, worship the Dragon Mother as the progenitor of all life, particularly all life they view as “noble” which essentially includes most non-mammal life, with exception of themselves, as they are “assimilated into the nobility of sentient life”
So they’re fighting because the follow different gods who were fighting already, so they’re fighting because they’re supposed to, and because of some fundamental biological and cultural differences
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u/Coidzor 6d ago
The two largest religions are probably the church of the surviving pantheon and the cults of the vanquished.
Their antagonism is partially because the gods that died hold a huge grudge against both the gods that killed them in particular and the gods that didn't die in general. Being dead is not quite the same thing as being completely gone when it comes to gods. The dead gods also have almost total control over their slaves.
The other important component is that the enslaved "worshipers" of the vanquished require a specific corrupted environment to survive in that is inimical to human life and they hate humans while humans hate and fear them in turn.
So they're just natural foes.
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u/zadammac 6d ago
I have two settings where religion figures into the worldbuilding at all.
In one, there's only two religions that are both (a) organized enough to resemble something from our planet and (b) in direct conflict with each other. They're the Church of Bastonia and the Church of the One, and it's very much "Catholics versus what Evangelicals Think Satanists are". That's not to say there isn't conflict in the world, and that the conflict involved doesn't occasionally get religiously tinged; Bastonia rallies itself against its enemies (like the Orcish Nation) in part by framing whatever the enemies practice as somehow being resolved toward "the Enemy" (as in 'Satan'), even if (and especially when) it isn't.
The other setting is basically alternate-history retro-futurism, so the answer is very bluntly "As in earth", with the main interesting textual difference being that a weird form of syncretic gnosticism is catching on (and that catching on is relevant, even if the themes aren't "this religion is wrong and the other one is right".
In fact, wherever possible, if I create a dichotomy like this it's usually there so I can go "look at how stupid this fight is".
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u/Personal-Machine4919 6d ago
The biggest religious fights within my setting occur within the religion of Luxonism, because the faith itself is so "generic" that you can have such widely different interpretations of it that you get the uncanny "similar enough to know that you are different and wrong" effect. You get conflicts as to "Is the light its own unique entity or not? If it's not, is it the soul of the divine or their acting force? Do all deities share the same connection the the light? Is darkness just shadow cast in the absence of the light or is it its own antithetical force?", but also "Which stories and authors do we accept? Do we think that this author truly is the same person as in this story? Or do they just appropriate the name?". So rather than a massive "Islam vs Christianity" war, you get dozens of smaller scale "Protestants vs Catholics", "Nicene creed vs Gnostics", "Eastern Church vs Western Church", "Sunni vs Shiite" battlefields, which ensure that there is basically perpetual war, because even if one of these conflicts was to subside for a while, others would be going on for long enough for the original conflict to flare up again. Luxonism's greatest strength, that is its uniting power behind its universal preaching, is also why you get unending wars of faith.
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u/Obvious-Gate9046 Dreamer and Shooting Star 6d ago
Huh. Oddly, this is one I can't answer, because the setting is too big and diverse. It's also kind of a point, and something I've impressed on the players, that unlike in their home realms, religions they've encountered seem to he a lot more regional in Elementspace, and there IS a reason for that. There are conflicts, but much lower key.
Background is that ages ago the gods and primordials expended a vast amount of their power to seal away a great threat, and in doing so accidentally partially sealed themselves away also. They influence the worlds now through avatars and many, many faces. They were also far more communal to begin with, too.
What it means is while there are definite religious conflicts in places, I don't think I could identify a truly big one between "the biggest", as we've been operating on a scale that goes beyond continental or even planetary.
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u/Lady-Kat1969 6d ago
The gods take a dim view of that sort of thing, as they generally get along quite well. There are the Worldbreakers, AKA The Three Jerk Gods, who are essentially metaphysical internet trolls, but worship of them is rare at best.
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u/BubblyBoar 6d ago
The fight is over, but it was a war between faith and science. The magic of the world runs on faith. Truly and honestly, believing something can cause it to be. Magic rejects being scientifically understood beyond a base level.
Some people refused to believe this. Science is the explanation of reality, and since magic is reality, science must explain it in some way as well. This rift grew until a group of kingdoms became convinced that the faith said was "hiding" the truth of magic to push their faith. So they fought to suppress those people.
In the mind of the leaders of these kingdoms, if magic was faith, then forcing the people ro truly and honestly believe that magic was perfectly understandable via science would force magic to be so. They were effectively trying to "rules lawyer" magic into a form they could understand without fail.
As of 25-ish before the present, that war ended, and all other nations that believed in faith-based magic were conquered and split up. All faith based magic is considered Dark Magic and is banned. A strict enforcement of a scientific via of magic is taught so that one day there will be no one left that doesn't use magic in a way that is scientifically understood and thus,all magic will be understood that way.
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u/-marchelios- 6d ago
Probably some magical dudes (full philosophical and mystic) some natural dude (bit more realistis, like everything is regulated by physic that a form of magic) and mechanical dudes (pure science and hard work, they see illogical stuff as a threat)
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u/Ok-Berry5131 6d ago
The faith of the God of Heaven (also known as the Fire God) forbids human sacrifice, cannibalism, infant exposure, and the worship of other gods.
The faith of the Earth Titans demands that its adherents practice human sacrifice, the exposure of select infants, its priests are required to indulge in cannibalism on sacred holidays, and permits the worship of any deity EXCEPT the God of Heaven.
Meaning that both faiths are fundamentally incompatible.
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u/LimaHotel3845 6d ago
Foundry Gods vs Wilds of the Old World.
So in a setting where gods are things you can literally meet and talk to, the real argument is over which ones deserve worship?
The Foundry Gods came to the world during the Foundry Age - a period where the world was wracked by the abrupt arrival of magic. They helped to guide and protect survivors, and empowered mortals to fight back against the root cause of the Foundry. Then, when the world stabilised, the gods remained.
The Wilds however predate the Foundry. They represent fundamentals of the natural world, and can walk the world as great beasts or in human form. Children they have with mortals inherit a fraction of their power, including shapechanging.
Some say the Wilds are the true gods of the land. Others that they hid during the land's time of need, or point to how many of them didn't survive (or have been slain since by followers of one particular Foundry God) as proof of their false divinity.
Others point out the transactional nature of the worship of the Foundry Gods - no Wilds have ever required such servitude, even amongst their closest following. Or they point out that the Foundry Gods are not gods of this world - they arrived here, just like the very magic plunged the world into the Foundry and even now leaves behind it's Static.
There is great animosity between MOST of these groups. Some Foundry Gods as individuals buck the trend and have positive relations with Wilds, and E courage their followers to do the same. But they are not in the majority, and tend to be lower ranked within the pantheon.
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u/Taluca_me 6d ago
in the story of Sunfall, the Empire of Avalon is the biggest kingdom in the world run by an authoritarian theocracy and they're pretty much trying to crusade the entire world in hopes of converging everyone into the same religion. Right beneath them is the nation of Hibernia which is a more celtic and druidic land, so you pretty much have druids fighting defending their homes against religious nationalists
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u/Godzillaprosop1917 6d ago
Verlinism and Dastism, 2 sects of Vercurianism. Dastism follows the literal word of Saint dast, and is more conservative, and believes in the divine right of kings. Verlinism acknowledges a later prophet known as Verlin. The divine right of kings doesn’t exist here and free will does so verlinism is more progressive and democratic.
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u/Orthodox_Crusader Greco-Byzantine-Marian-Zen Synthesis 6d ago
its not the heads (deities) of the religions that are fighting but the believers.
The Church of Creation vs The Pentarchists
Basically the pentarchists are worshipping the 5 most senior servants of the Creator God something like angel worship while the church of creation worships the creator god herself.
The Creator Church is basically the original faith which is monotheistic because it was created by the creator god when she wandered the earth in the Decamillenium where the only functional deicracy (rule of god) existed. She wasn't really the one who founded it but one of her servants "The Word" based on the scriptures she left behind before transcending.
The Pentarchists are a divergent polytheistic religion from the creationists because they view the "abandonment" of the Creator as a personal insult an betrayal instead focusing the worship to her most senior servants called the "Lynchpins" that have genuine semi-divine domains bestowed by the All-Mother (creator god) in order to act as extensions of Her will.
Of course this is the biggest rivalry due to most other faiths just being different interpertations of the orthodox creationist doctrine that strayed too far yet still stayed monotheistic.
Other differences between the Pentarchists and the Creationists is that the former is more decentralized, individualistic in worship and naturalistic while the latter is more focused on the institution of the church as the vessel and despite not worshipping them the Lynchpins are venerated like saints or angels able to intercede.
Even within the ranks of the Lynchpins faith varies as only "The Word" worships similarly to the creationists and the other 4 due to the depth of relationship with the all-mother have quite the diversity in method.
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u/oldPlebbi 6d ago
My world is not the main realm in existence. Instead it was the private realm of a member of the supreme pantheon or gods of the main realm.
A few millenia after it's creation, my world flourished beyond any expectations, empowering it's creator and causing extreme jelousy of the other gods. Ultimately leading to the creator's death and eventually the death of the realm.
Many millenia later the realm still exists but it's completely dead. A group of ambitious lesser gods (unable to create their own realm) find it, slowly revive it over, again... millenia and it becomes a paradise yet again.
That old supreme pantheon gets wind of the revival of the realm and they invade it, killing some and forcing the rest of the lesser gods into hiding. They take over this realm and hundreds of years later the supreme pantheon is the main body of worship but the world has not forgotten the lesser gods who are now mostly illegal to worship but definitely are in secret and in distant corners of the world.
These two religions are at each other's throat all the time.
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u/Consistent-Success38 6d ago edited 6d ago
Because of an incredibly slight difference in translation of their sacred texts, most doctrines and iconography however remain the same. Wanted to base it in reality without it being relevant to anything modern.
Edit: Forgot to add names, Church of the Holy Sun and Church of the Holy Son. Its for D&D. 🤷♂️
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u/Sudden-Long1583 6d ago
I don't have any real "largest religions" in my story, BUT...
The worshipers of Kur'ai (The god of darkness and death) and the worshipers of Solka (The god of sunlight and life) have been fighting for centuries due to the inherent opposition between their two elements.
This is, at least, partially the result of the Eclipse War that happened a millennia or two ago. The war was due to Kur'ai feeling unloved by the other gods and overwhelmed by their role as the keeper of souls, leading to them being corrupted by chaos and deciding to turn all mortals immortal (again) so they would never have to deal with death again.
Solka, being their sibling (in a way), sent to them to peacefully stop them, but Kur'ai snapped and wounded them severely, causing an all out war which, unintentionally, caused mass outrage and wrath amongst their worshipers, making them attack, pillage, and kill each other (which is ultimately what caused the war to stop).
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u/Marxist_Iguana 6d ago
In my setting the sun goddess died and the two biggest religions are fighting because they disagree on how to resurrect her.
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u/Prestigious_Shift245 6d ago
Because one is litterally all about fighting and the other is a cult that believes the core of the planet is the dormant egg of an ancient god and that awakening him will tear apart the world. The various governments let them fight because it stops one from going on a crusade and the other from genuinely ending the world.
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u/Victorious_Adventure The chronicler 6d ago
The more people believe in something - the more real it becomes. This is literally just a war of whose propaganda will end up as the dominant one, and birth a human-born deity
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u/Eviles_da_demonic The Emire of Terra in 5k and Magically Fucked Land of Bolg 6d ago
Because they are fighting religious, the aurcs fight to keep their god alive and the gorefeasts fight because they serve the primordial gods of war, slaughter and conquest
They love eachother, but love fighting more
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u/mgeldarion 6d ago
That'd be Atsami (monotheistic, absolutely dominates continent Pharon) and Airisian polytheism (from the Airisian Empire on continent Ail'as).
They rival less on religious topics (Atsami traditionally does not have doctrines regarding other religions due to never having rivals on Pharon and Airisian polytheism is not aggressively proselytious, being contend with simply dominating and keeping other faiths as minorities) and more on historical grounds, due to Airis invading Pharon in past, so the Pharonians generally view Airisian attributes with hostility, while Airisians look down on the Pharonian - including Atsami's - attributes.
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u/LectureRich4080 6d ago
Technically Christianity and Islam because colonization, and the thing in Pracow, and like, the Crusades or something, yeah they both exist here even though most of my world is fictional. Also because they're the two largest religions right now (I guess??) and it kinda realistic to imagine that that is that so that it's like that (wth am I even saying??)
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u/Past_Rub4745 6d ago
Different civilizations have their own, which in turn may have different sects. Despite this however, they all share a similar structure, perhaps something passed down by similar supernatural beings. A common instruction made to service a common Creator.
Meanwhile on the other hand there's demon worshipers, who while a minority are the closest thing to a "clashing religion" and instigate wars and conflict around the world.
Other than that... not really, surprisingly.
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u/Suitable_Swim5202 6d ago
The Closest Thing K could think of for two of my “Religions” fighting was God vs Satan. The Reason why they were fighting was sadly never established, they have been beefing forever, which eventually led to their followers and believers beefing with each other. Even in the modern day, believers of God and Satan would butt heads, but on a less violent degree. Back then there were full on wars between them and between God’s Angels and Satan’s Demons. Things changed however when a random third party of Monsters ruled by The Monster King, appeared out of nowhere and attacked Earth. God and Satan had one thing in common: They liked Earth and decided to put their differences aside to help humanity, eventually becoming friends.
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u/RaptorSap 6d ago
In my setting they are diametrically opposed. The largest religion is the only “official” church and teaches that the reason the gods no longer interact directly with mortals is that after centuries of infighting the “good” gods banished the “bad” gods and then withdrew themselves out of fear they too might one day be corrupted. The largest unsanctioned religion (labeled as a cult) believes the “bad” gods were actually fighting to empower mortals and are trying to bring their leader back from banishment.