Animal Kingdom - Humanist vs Religious

[Yxklyx]

So I'm doing this Animal Kingdom achievement as Manipur and for some maybe insane reason I chose Humanist instead of Religious. Now, Religious is such an obvious choice but my thinking was:

1. I've no accepted culture slots left and I should be conquering Bengal land soon. Humanist gives another +2 slots and India has lots of different cultures. Accepted Culture effectively gives +2 missionary strength vs +3 from the religious idea, but the Culture has a lasting effect whereas once you've converted a province the missionary strength is no longer used.
2. -10 years Separatism and -2 Unrest seem very attractive to me.
3. Deus Vult is so far to the right now that I'll probably have the achievement before that, of course it'd be nice to have that for later but fabricating claims isn't that bad a way to expand, plus with all the Humanist ideas your new territory seems much easier to manage and will contribute to your economic growth faster.
4. The extra missionary from Religious is good but again once you've converted a province it's no longer used, unlike Unrest reduction, etc....
5. Religious finisher is weak. Humanist finisher is fine.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Unless you get an unlucky Sikh center, you can do the achievement requirements w/o religious.

Humanism is better if you want to keep the trash religion after that, and especially if you want to switch into a "real" religion like Hindu later. Even with religious animist will never keep up with expansion pace unless you expand like a snail.