The removal of the Expansion and Exploration CB's makes the game worse.

[TheMeInTeam]

Yes but I think at this point, we all know how this is going to end. I'm amazed and almost grateful we've had the Religious CB as long as we've had it.

Though really, I don't like having to take Religious from a personal preference stand point well to use a Civ IV term 'This goes against everything we stand for'.

"You can never have too much slaves".

Crack that deus vult whip.

If it gets nerfed away you will see the next best option become a false choice instead (influence + despotic monarchy for -60%, or 1 dip/dev cap for rivals), and probably a major surge in humanist at that point since deus vult is the primary reason religious is better...probably a few more deliberate swings into revolutionary government late game for WC runs too to make up for some lost time.

If you don't mind underexpansion early game influence/humanist is significantly more convenient anyway (fewer zombies).