Peteran/Jacoban religions.

Sounds like a bad can o' worms to me, do not recommend opening it in this day and age.

Maybe if they do a new TSM.

I suppose you could use the Holidays from Seasons to give some sense of religion (recreating real holidays, or making up your own, which is what I've done in my game). (Reinforcing the idea that sometimes this game gives you tools and you have to figure out how to make those tools work for you).
There is one holiday ritual that is called Attend Festive Ceremony (or something like that) and the Sim just disappears for a few hours while they attend the service elsewhere.
The downside to that ritual is you can't actually designate a lot to be the lot where the Sim attends the ceremony, so if you build a church or temple, it's not like they're specifically going there but you can pretend they are, I suppose.

Also you can always build a church or temple, and then maybe even make clubs that hangout there and set activities so it looks lively. There aren't a ton of activities for clubs, and even less club activities for doing things that might be considered in the realm of traditional religious/ritualistic activity.

I mean, the game already has Christmas trees, Menorah, and Kinara, so there are bits of religion in there. You can build lots and place religious objects in them.

I think these worked well in a semi-historical background with sims medieval. But I think the modern day environment in sims 4 is too similar to real life to add in made up religions. I think a lot of players have very different views from one another to find a way to implement them for all.
For some it will be too close to real religions while for others it won't be close enough because they want actual existing ones.

If this would ever be added, I think it is unlikely, then it should be a new free pack like the holiday pack so players can choose if they want to use it or avoid it.

Now I feel like playing sims medieval again. Lol. In that game peteran and Jacoban religion fit in very well.

"Catzilla;c-17455583" wrote:
Sounds like a bad can o' worms to me, do not recommend opening it in this day and age.

Well, technically, every time, The Sims makes Christmas, Hannukah, Halloween, Easter themed objects, it's introducing religion into the game.

I made up my own Church for the game. Same as I used in TS3, Church of Similius. There is a church-ish building and some sort of a priest, but they focus on the green bars (and admitting the red must exist, too, to make the green more good). No obvious religious symbols, like paintings or sculptures of holy characters etc. There is no name giving and no services on specific weekdays (mainly because I don't play the lot very often). But the richer families (nobility) marry there, and I assume there will be a funeral or two, as well. And they have some annual ceremonies, like the green bars festival. The church runs a café in summer, and a gift shop all year selling anything green. And there is a monastery with a few monks and a Nestor, training the better suited candidate when the Priest needs replacement. I can post links to articles on both church and monastery on my blog, but perhaps this covered most of it :)

"Sindocat;c-17455682" wrote:
As active social forces, probably not.

San Myshuno and Lani St. Taz both appear to be places named for saints in colonial times.

Just when the sects of the faith of the Watcher went dormant is an open question. My guess is that Sims didn't care for Jacoban political influence, and they faded away about the same time monarchy did.

And what about Peteran? The less politically active religion.

"NationalPokedex;c-17455584" wrote:
Maybe if they do a new TSM.

I suppose you could use the Holidays from Seasons to give some sense of religion (recreating real holidays, or making up your own, which is what I've done in my game). (Reinforcing the idea that sometimes this game gives you tools and you have to figure out how to make those tools work for you).
There is one holiday ritual that is called Attend Festive Ceremony (or something like that) and the Sim just disappears for a few hours while they attend the service elsewhere.
The downside to that ritual is you can't actually designate a lot to be the lot where the Sim attends the ceremony, so if you build a church or temple, it's not like they're specifically going there but you can pretend they are, I suppose.

Also you can always build a church or temple, and then maybe even make clubs that hangout there and set activities so it looks lively. There aren't a ton of activities for clubs, and even less club activities for doing things that might be considered in the realm of traditional religious/ritualistic activity.

I mean, the game already has Christmas trees, Menorah, and Kinara, so there are bits of religion in there. You can build lots and place religious objects in them.

In my Victorian save last year I made a church and sent my active households there every Sunday morning, where they would chat a bit with their fellow parishioners then go off lot to attend the ceremony, then come back and chat again. I still have that save but haven't played it since the summer but I will eventually do something similar, but perhaps less regimented, in my current save.

be careful @BigJoe as soon as you mention faith ALLLLLLL of the haters come out to poo on you

I'd love to have tools to create our own religions. Then we could make real, or very made-up, ones as we chose.

The Peteran/Jacoban thing is a little icky to me as it obviously presents a good religion and a bad religion, and the good one appears Protestant Christian while the bad one makes use of too many anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish stereotypes for my comfort level. (I mean, I am a Protestant Christian in real life, but that doesn't make me feel any better about this.)

"mightysprite;c-17950820" wrote:
I'd love to have tools to create our own religions. Then we could make real, or very made-up, ones as we chose.

The Peteran/Jacoban thing is a little icky to me as it obviously presents a good religion and a bad religion, and the good one appears Protestant Christian while the bad one makes use of too many anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish stereotypes for my comfort level. (I mean, I am a Protestant Christian in real life, but that doesn't make me feel any better about this.)

I don't know, I think this is a matter of interpretation. For example, they actually both seemed Catholic to me (which would be more historically accurate, anyway, for a medieval setting), with the Peterans reminding me very strongly of some sort of hybrid of maybe Franciscans and Jesuits? Whereas the Dominicans, IRL, were sometimes referred to as Jacobins at one time, I believe. Other people might identify them more with other orders of the Catholic church, but that was my personal impression. But I definitely did not think it was set up as a Protestant v. Catholic dichotomy.