The Great Religions of the World

The Sect of Lafayette

Practices:
- Community Services (doubles as recruitment)
- Measurement and training of divine power
- Religion boosted greatly by money power
- Regular religious classes

Demographic:
The followers of Lafayette tend to be upper-middle class, because while they focus a lot of effort on recruiting, their focus group are aimed towards the wealthy. This cause them to be the richest religion, despite that their size is considerable smaller than the Order of Qasim.

History:
Believers believe in a precursor race that are essentially gods that created humans. While the common consensus is that the gods are mostly or totally gone, there are many that claims to have godly heritage, or a tiny amount of people lives among the humans hiding and guiding from the unseen, or to be formless soul possessing humans. A common trend in this religion is the "measurement" of "affinity" or "powers" of godly energy or heritage, and strict routines and lifestyle rules that essentially help to "build" the "affinity" to the godly energy.

The Church of Qasim

Practices:
- Weekly/Daily prayers
- Symbol worship and book of teachings
- Transfer of wealth between classes, but varies greatly among different sects.
- Deep-seated hierarchy system.

Demographic:
The largest religion there is, the followers of Qasim comprises of all races, income levels and rank. As there is a fundamental focus of "sharing", it attracts the poor and the outcasts. However, as there are also a focus of "class" and "rank", it also attracts the elite and very wealthy.

History:
A monotheistic religion that believe a single entity or god created everything and all things, and all that is related to him is holy, all his scriptures are law, all lives exist to serve him. However, the many scriptures gives conflicting form to many different rules of life, which cause people to intepret it differently, usually to suit their own agendas. It causes different sects to be formed, all claiming to be the real Religion B. Many wars have been fought over who is the rightful religion, and the different teaching and rules has been shuffled, combined, and separately many times over history, usually over massive body counts.

The Order of Sakyamuni

Practices:
- Meditation
- Social advocacy
- Strictly pacifist among other laws.
- Rejection of hierarchy of all kinds

Demographic:
The followers of Sakyamuni is a very open religion with no real bases, order or rank, partially due to its history of persecution. Its demographic is generally unknown, but at it's height of popularity, it is practiced by people of all ages and faiths, sometimes by people from other religions.

History:
A polytheistic religion that some argue are more closely related to philosophy, although most governments kept it as a religion. It was a peaceful religion that started out as a spiritual movement that embraces the existence of many gods and celestial beings, including those of other religions as their own. The massive popularity causes worries to those in various government and other religion bodies, and the movement was put down violently by them, usually to no resistance. Throughout history, there is been a cycle of rapid growth and violent persecution, until a massive massacre that happened X years ago nearly brought it to extinction. Nowadays it is seen as a cult through propaganda, and believers usually hide their religion from the public eye.