/tg/ — Should good-aligned religions require a vow of chastity be t

No.

>>98201917
What of the morality of it though?

>>98201910 (OP)

Fuck off Puckee.

>>98201910 (OP)
How is that relevant to the game you're playing or DMing right now?

>>98201937
I'm making a pantheon.

It depends almost entirely on the theology and worldview of said religion. Outside of that, they might require it if the religion thinks a family will give them something they value more than they value their religion, or if a family might be a distraction from their duties.

Basically, figure out the religion first, then figure out how they view the role of their clergy in society second, and then you'll have some good guidelines toward your answer.

>>98201948
So like a nature religion probably won't have vows of chastity etc.?

>>98201910 (OP)
Their female clerics should swear vows of vaginal chastity but vows of sacred prostitution with the rest of their body. That's how it went down in Tolkien.

>>98201937
His "game" is spamming commissioned art and making stupid questions like the one in OP.

>>98201957
no, it probably wouldn't. there are many other types of good or neutral religions that might not either.

No.

Fuck off.

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>puckee thread

>>98201910 (OP)
Fuck no

>>98202060
How many IRL religions have vows of chastity among the clergy?

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>>98201910 (OP)
Blow it out your ass, Zak Gilmore.

I have a feeling that the discord trannies make these threads just so they can ritualpost their faggotry

>>98202692
Many religions have vows of celibacy. This means can't marry. Prohibitions against sex outside marriage mean that a vow of celibacy often effectively becomes a vow of chastity too.

Roman Catholic clergy, who are all male, are celibate as are members of professed orders like monks, nuns, friars and sisters who are of one or the other sex. Some RC clergy have transferred from other denominations like Anglican. If already married they stay married but can't remarry. Most men who become deacons do that as a step to priesthood. Men in the congregation might become permanent deacons, they're clergy, but not priests, and may be married.

Eastern orthodox bishops must be celibate. Married men cane become priests, but men can't marry after becoming a priests. Monks and nuns like RC church.

Jewish priests could marry and have children, but the temple's destruction ended the priestly line. Rabbis can get married through.

Islam doesn't have priests. Its various teachers and scholars can marry.

Outside of Japanese Zen, most Buddhist monks and nuns are required, after joining, to be both celibate and chaste. Status before joining is unimportant so long as one is not abandoning a dependent such as a spouse or child.

Please note that in Tibetan Buddhism lama is not the same as monk. There is no special requirement that lamas be chaste but they are expected to honour the Eight Precepts. One of those is do not commit sexual impropriety. This means a number of lamas breach this by having sex with already married people as well as abuses in the lamasery.

Hindu sannyasi (renuninciants) including monks and nuns are supposed to be celibate and chaste. Temple and domestic priests are permitted to marry and have children.

Jainism doesn't even have priests, but it has monks and nuns who are supposed to be celibate and chaste after professing.

Shinto priests are expected to marry, and their wives can take over as priestesses, but young miko are often expected to be chaste.

>>98201910 (OP)
Not unless you want it to. When you look at major religions, it's basically a tossup on whether clerical or religious chastity is required.

Catholics and Buddhists have it.
Protestants, Muslims, and Jews don't.

>>98201910 (OP)
No, that's ghost of gnosticism.

>>98202692
>>98202904

Sikhs don't have priests. Or every sikh is a priest if you prefer to look at it that way.

Most Greek and Roman priests used to marry. Priests served (male) gods amngst whom there is a notable absence of virgins. Priestesses served goddesses and were variously required to be virgins or to be married. Priestesses of Vesta were the chaste and unmarried Vestal Virgins but priestesses to Hera/Juno, the goddess of marriage, were expected to marry.

Egyptian priests and priestesses could marry.

Mesopotamian and Sumerian priests and priestesses existed. Their ability to marry depended upon which god they served. Some had to be celibate and chaste, others could marry or even just serve as consorts without marriage.

Germanic and Scandanavian religions didn't have priests. Celtic druids look like they were priests and could marry. Modern days posers can fuck themselves for all I care.

It's hard to comment on pre-European contact Polynesians but it does appear there was a priestly order in some way, people who took on a ceremonial role and these people often remained celibate and chaste to preserve their spiritual power. This doesn't appear to have been a formal vow but just something they did but details are scarce.

You can research American and sub-saharan Africa if you want or maybe another anon knows more about that than I and is willing to comment.

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>>98201910 (OP)
Should you commit suicide? Yes.

>>98202946
Gnosticism?

>>98201910 (OP)
>puckee aka redditor pucke℮21 spamming his commission again
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1j5ot3r/artcomm_sister_althea_human_cleric_by_dennis/
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>39 times since March 2025

>>98201910 (OP)
That image looks like shit

>>98201910 (OP)
Kill yourself.

>>98201910 (OP)
IIRC, wasn’t the thing about Christian priests not marrying originally to limit church power by preventing priests from passing wealth and titles down or something like that?

Regardless, thanks to >>98202972 and >>98202904 for the info, but going off of what >>98201948 said, what are the pros and cons of this approach from a world-building/storytelling point of view?

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>>98201910 (OP)
They should require a vow of rape.

>>98201910 (OP)
No, you're just retarded faggot who can't imagine a good religion that isn't a Christianity stand-in.