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[[Category:Religion]]
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{{Infobox religion|icon=Paxism Symbol.png|leader= [[Supreme Magister]] [[Tawak Mudawaheen|Tawak VII]]|anno=[[Common Era calendar]]|origin=Kingdom of Akil (modern day [[Akas Akil]], [[Ashura]], [[Packilvania]])|number_of_places_of_worship=980,000|denominations={{unbulleted list|Yehudism|Obedism|Ipsitism|Sohadekism (Melkezedekism)|Madvinism (Melkezedekism)}}|followers=1000000000|belief=Monotheism|name=Paxism|regions={{unbulleted list|[[Packilvania]]|[[Alvan Empire]]|[[Arcturia]]|[[Aurora]]}}|founded={{unbulleted list|Original (time immemorial)|Modern (2036 BCE)|Yehudism (400 BCE)|Obedism (670)|Ipsitism (740 CE)|Melkezedekism (980 CE)|Sohadekism (1150 CE)|Madvinism (1760 CE)}}|founder={{unbulleted list|None (time immemorial)|[[Prophet Besmali]] (Modern Paxism in {{Start date and age|-2036}})|Prophet King [[Suleiman of Yehudah]] (Yehudism in {{Start date and age|-400}})|Prophet King Obed III (Obedism in {{Start date and age|670}})|Prophet Ipsit (Ipsitism in {{Start date and age|740}})|Prophet King [[Melkezedek the Great]] ([[Melkezedekism]] in {{Start date and age|980}})|Prophet Sohadek (Sohadekism in {{Start date and age|1150}})|Prophet Madvin (Madvinism in {{Start date and age|1760}})}}|deity=[[Noi]]|caption=Symbol of Paxism (the head of Noi and the Hive as one)|image=Paxism Symbol.png|place_of_worship=Temple}}
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In Paxism certain foods are forbidden because they are seen as dirty and unholy. The meat of reptiles, all insects except grasshoppers and consumption of blood or dead animals (i.e., animals that died due to disease or other strange causes not intended or known by the person consuming the animal) are forbidden. Animals must be slaughtered with a sharp knife, cleanly and swiftly and with a blessing before they can be regarded as holy and suitable for consumption. Ipsitites are notably exempt from some of these restrictions, allowing for animals to be slaughtered in any which way so long as a prayer of thanks is given after eating, and the animal's bones are picked clean, with Ipsitite doctrine heavily discouraging the wastage of food.
===Marriage (''Zawaj'')===
Marriage in Paxism is believed to reflect the sacred relationship between Noi and sentient beings more broadly. They believe it represents the intimate relationship between the creator and created. Furthermore, they believe that marriage provides the comfort, security, provision, mutual support, and personal fulfillment that enables people to live joyful and purposeful lives. They believe that marriage is as much an agreement and commitment to love, devotion, trust and self-sacrifice as it is an institution for strengthening society and enabling stability within the community. Many Paxists also believe that marriage is intended to provide a safe space for children to be had and raised, in which values about being a good citizen of the Urth, a responsible member of society, and a fulfilled and thoughtful individual can be imparted. They believe that marriage allows the perpetuation of society and the values and principles that underpin it to be purveyed especially where those values arise from Paxism.
Nevertheless, there are deep seated divergences on whom, when and how people ought to get married. Differences can exist between and within sects. Some Paxists believe that marriage can only exist between a cisman and a ciswoman. Others believe that marriage can extend to people who identify and express and men and women, regardless of their assigned gender at birth. Others believe that marriages between people of the same self-identified gender should be permissible. Arguments for and against who can get married to whom are based on diverse readings of the Bas Magdamar and interpretations of scripture over thousands of years.
For instance in the Sorceriocracy of Tharan, which was a nation that broadly identified as Paxist that was located in modern day Packilvania in the province of Fidakar that existed before the 7th century CE, heteresexual marriages were not permissible. In fact, only homosexuals could get married with arrangements between couples of different genders to have and raise children. Contemporaneous to them was the Sorceriocracy of Rahal (also broadly identifying as a Paxist nation) which permitted equal rights to marriage for people of varying gender expressions and identities without limitation. The modern Magisterium in Packilvania believes that these were heretical nations practicing anathemised magical and immoral cults with vaguely Paxist aesthetics. Nevertheless, this shows that opinions about the gender identity of people who can get married was never historically fixed or constant among people who identified as Paxist.
There have also been debates about who has the capacity to engage in marriage. In some societies that identified as Paxist, it was appropriate for people who would be considered children by modern standards to get married. It was also appropriate to coerce people into marriage or to take multiple marital partners or to engage in extramarital relationships such as concubinage. The boundaries on where physical intimacy lay were also obscured. Some societies believed that married men could have physically intimate relationships with other males in the context of friendships and the same was true in some societies for women. Some societies believed that it was appropriate for parents or tribal elders to select marital partners for their children. In some societies it was believed that women had no right to refuse a marriage proposal made by either the first suitor approved by their parents or by some tribal doctrine.
The version of Paxism that is taught by the Magisterium which encourages heterosexual marriages has only existed since the 11th century. The teaching that polygamous marriages should be discouraged except in exceptional circumstances has only existed since the 17th century and even then prominent people in society such as aristocrats and royals have flouted this doctrine, making it difficult for the Magisterium to enforce its teaching on this issue. Modern thinking about self awareness and bodily autonomy is progressively shifting attitudes about whether it is appropriate for parents to select marital partners and coerce their children to get married to them, with some people in the rural areas and among aristocratic circles in Packilvania continuing the practice despite growing condemnation of it by leading voices and a growing number of people in the Magisterium. With Paxism's spread to other parts of the world the heterocentric marital formulation is being challenged within Magisterial ranks.
===Clerical authority (''Imamiyat'')===
{{Main|Magisterium of Paxism}}
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* '''Cessationists''' believe that Charisma are real but that Noi no longer pours them out to mortals. They might believe that some prophets post-Melkezedek Prophets are real usually Prophet Sohadek.
* '''Continuationists''' believe that Charisma are real and that Noi continues to pour them out to mortals.
* '''Mythologists''' believe that the Charisma are not real but that they were symbolic metaphors for Nois attributes and were used to convey lessons. Some suggest that because the scriptures arose in a primitive society for which scientific and empirical explanations for the changes in the world was lacking, mythologies about pseudo-magical or supernatural capabilities allegedly imparted by Noi helped to give people hope, or to enable charlatans to expropriate people's wealth or to exercise social influence.
== Holy sites (''leSih leHalaal'')==
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==Notes==
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