@piff yes I missed that discussion. My enthusiasm for the game dampened when I realized it wasn't going to be a successor to the BG series. It's going to be fun game. Just like DOS2 was a fun game.
Anyway forgive if this has already been said but this is where I'm getting the Faithless vs the False (and I hope WotC isn't getting ride of the wall)
Ed Greenwood:
In the Realms, everyone ‘believes in’ ALL of the gods, and although a lot of humans (priests, paladins, and lay worshippers) ‘specialize’ in one god (worshipping that one deity more than others), most sentient beings do at least a little worshipping of many deities: a merchant wanting business success would pray and give offerings to Waukeen, and if that merchant is shipping goods aboard on a ship, would also pray and give offerings to Umberlee to NOT sink the ship, and if that same merchant was trying to use new technology to make their goods faster or better or both, he or she would also pray and give offerings to Gond, and so on. So you can see that there’s a lot of ‘lip-service’ worship of deities by people who otherwise don’t care overmuch about that god or their faith. The gods want obedience AND worship because they gain power the more they are worshipped and have influence in the mortal world, so YES, they would count someone participating in celebration of one of their holy days as worship . . .
Mortals aren’t required to like the creed or world-view of a deity (though the deity would prefer that they love the deity and the deity’s ways) so much as the deity wants them to obey (behave in certain ways), and donating coins to a temple is definitely worship.
Emphasis added
The false says "screw you Waukeen, I don't need you to make money I can do it on my own"
The faithless is a merchant who might just say 'hail Waukeen' but never donates or attends services and who also fails Kelemvor's judgement.
I know this much ado about something that may be moot but even if it's nothing, it's nothing I care about
