Church of Humanity/Stances

"The absence of faith is the mark of the weak. The absence of faith is the mark of the heretic. The absence of faith is the mark of damnation."

Holy Church Universal
East Continent
Church of the Holy Sacred Grove Dagdaism Flow of the Balance Order of the White Tree Triumvirate	None None Evil None Misguided
Church of Ibladesh Dunkontology Eben Flow Gymnistism Light of Fontan Pacifism Path of Asena Sagarmathism Sanctus Acies Vis Ordonism Zenism	Evil Misguided Ignore Misguided Evil Ignore Variant Ignore Variant Ignore Ignore
Beluaterra
Bloodspeakers Daishi Estahsism Hemaism Order of the Golden Feather Way
Blood Cult Church of Estahsism Church of the Living God Church of Teros Da Way Daimon Worship Divine Order of Mentism Eretzism Evgenism Hedonism Living Earth Na Diaga New Way of the Dragon Nyxianism Octarianism Old Gods Order of Alluran Omniovoism Order of Da Great Goat Order of the Druids Qyrvaggism Sanguinaire Valentic Order Yggdrasili
Far East Kingdoms
Church of Echad Church of Sartan Magna Aenilia Ecclesia Order of the Elders Trinity of the Far East Way of the Dragon	None Evil None None None None
Adgharhin Way Archangels of Taith Aenil Chaos Requiem Church of Rachna Communionism Cra'ithil Elihism Guardians of Twilight Na Tursanism Path of the Great Dragon Tribunism

Individuals

All faiths have their own names for those who follow other religions, have betrayed their faith, or even their own followers. The Church of Humanity's Ecclesiarchy has codified their own terminology for such categories so as to limit confusion. After all, though all sins bring pain unto the Divine not all are as painful to Her as others.

Faithful or Ecclesiae

All who follow the Divine and the doctrine as established by the Church of Humanity are known as the Faithful, or more formally as the Ecclesiae. The name covers the lowest peasant Initiate to even the Arch Cleric himself.

Apostate

Perhaps the most sinful of individuals, an apostate is a former Faithful who has renounced the Faith, the Divine, and Holy Church itself. Depending on their choices, they may eventually also be heathens should they join another faith to fill the void in their soul.

Heretic

While not necessarily sinful willingly, heretics follow a path that is generally viewed as a variant of Church doctrine. This makes them both the easiest as well as the most difficult to convert to the true path. Heresy may be one of the most dangerous temptations presented to the Faithful, for they may not recognize at first the falsehoods presented to them.

Heathen

Heathens are a contradiction, for they may have never been truly presented with word of the Divine. Or they may have simply refused the Church to maintain their dark ways.