Tribes

In the modern age the Adepts of God find themselves stemming from many different religious groups and traditions. These various theistic groups, dubbed 'Tribes' by most modern Adepts, are important because they help shape the religious view of God, and often the experience with God they had that transformed them into Adepts in the first place. 
An Adept can designate as a Tribe any specific group who are united by a faith in a Supreme Being and a shared heritage of some sort. Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Messianic Jews, etc. All can be someone's 'Tribe,' in a sense not too different from the way the Tribes of Israel thought of themselves?
== The Tribes: ==
Listing all the Tribes on earth is too lengthy a task for our purposes here. The following is a list of the most general Tribes, as well as the largest and most important in terms of politics and social demographics. 
Deism 
Evangelical Churches 
Fundamentalist Churches 
Islam 
Judaism 
Orthodox Churches 
Pentecostal Churches 
Roman Catholic Church 
== Tribal Warfare: ==
Adepts belong both to Orders which cross all cultural lines, and they are normally members of some such Tribe, one which usually believes itself to be the maxim of God's truth on Earth. Because the Orders represent an intense, personal relationship with God, they tend to be more important to an individual Adept than one's denomination.
However, sometimes problems arise when Squads host members from Tribes which disagree sharply on things. An Adept from a Mainline Protestant church with a strongly Liberal theology will find themselves disagreeing with another Adept from a strongly Conservative Tribe, such as an Eastern Orthodox or Fundamentalist church.
== Tribal Justice: ==
Regents of Squads are keen to root out any problems based on Tribal differences early on, since a Squad's ability to survive is in direct ratio with their ability to work together. Kings, Judges, Healers, Innocents, even Inquisitors may find they have a reason to help facilitate the process. 
Of course, there may come a time when the Tribal differences between members is simply too great. According to the Teachings of Gamaliel, when Adepts find they just don't have enough common ground theologically, they leave it in God's hands by going separate ways. The group that is right, God will make prosper. The one that is wrong, God will allow to dwindle into extinction.
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