China and catholic faith
A discussion started in Italy Thread about Chinese Rites Controversy in post 609 and following.
As stated in post 615, two new chinese events are possible:
If confucian rituals are accepted by the Pope (PAP251012 action_b), there could be a PAP event to declare Confucius as a Christian saint (innovative +2) or not.
As a result, if yes, China could "convert" to catholicism (as Japan can) and go away from exotic techgroup, if ever. I have to check chinese events for all possible techgroup changes. There is only a tiny chance this to happen, but this is a plausible ahistoric path.
Btw, if PAP doesn't exist, we must write all PAP events involved for MUS tag and check in chinese events if PAP or MUS corresponding event fired when needed.
What do you think here of these ideas?
A discussion started in Italy Thread about Chinese Rites Controversy in post 609 and following.
As stated in post 615, two new chinese events are possible:
In the article (Chinese Rites controversy), two sentences are interesting for fantasy events:I propose to make two new events for China:
First one would be triggered by PAP251012 action_b, and just inform China that the Pope accepted "Ancestor worship is filial piety" in 1704.
Second one will have first one as trigger condition with same date, offset and deathdate as CHI10036 (1722-1723) but only with action_b (since there is no reason to expell them now => no exotic tech => boost for AI). Consequences are more or less like White Lotus, Celestial Order or Eight Trigrams ones, but with tech change effects avoided. Not bad...
At the time, there was fascination among European intellectuals with Chinese culture, Confucianism, and the Chinese language. Some even pretended that the Church declared Confucius as a Christian saint.
=>Although in later European commentary on China it has continued to be claimed that Confucianism is a "philosophy" and not a "religion" - because it does not conform to the model of western religions, the pope was probably correct in his assessment that the Confucian rituals were indeed in conflict with Christian teaching. As a result, he gave up a very good opportunity to convert a significant part of the Chinese elite to Catholicism.
If confucian rituals are accepted by the Pope (PAP251012 action_b), there could be a PAP event to declare Confucius as a Christian saint (innovative +2) or not.
As a result, if yes, China could "convert" to catholicism (as Japan can) and go away from exotic techgroup, if ever. I have to check chinese events for all possible techgroup changes. There is only a tiny chance this to happen, but this is a plausible ahistoric path.
Btw, if PAP doesn't exist, we must write all PAP events involved for MUS tag and check in chinese events if PAP or MUS corresponding event fired when needed.
What do you think here of these ideas?