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Tenets and Doctrines:
- Added several new tenets for Christian faiths:
   - Frontier Monastics:
      - Models the frontier Christian faiths, such as Insular Celtic or the Bosnian Church
      - Only available if the root faith has this tenet
      - Requires Pluralist Orientation
         - Not combinable with Pastoral Isolation or Monasticism
      - Has a -20% conversion speed with organized faiths
      - Enables the Taking of Vows
      - Unlocks the "Become an Adventurer" decision
      - Can build Monasteries buildings in all holdings
      - Clergy are always monks
      - Temperate is a Virtue, Gluttonous and Greedy are Sins
   - Render unto Caesar:
      - Models the tension within the African Church between its Donatist and Imperial sects
      - Only available to Christians
      - Requires using an African Liturgical Rite and a Head of Faith
         - Not compatible with Sacred Lies, Pastoral Isolation, Communion, Sanctioned False Conversion
      - Counties and characters may sometimes reconvert to this faith
      - Unlocks the Seek Indulgences interaction with the Head of Faith
      - Unlocks the Request Excommunication interaction on same faith characters
      - Spiritual Head of Faith can Excommunicate characters
      - Makes Excommunicated a crime
      - Reduced impact of the Excommunication trait
      - +50% Peasant and Populist faction military power
      -10% Stress Loss per Level of Fame
      - Honest is a Virtue, Deceitful is a Sin
   - Cenobitic Monasticism:
      - Models the more Cenobitic Monastic life in early Christianity
      - Unlocks the "Take Vows" decision
      - Clerics are always monks
      - Unlocks the Meditate in Seclusion decision
      - Temperate is a Virtue, Gluttonous, Greedy, and Reveler Lifestyle are Sins
- Modified several tenets for Christian faiths:
   - Complex Exegesis:
      - Models the particularly
      - Only available to Christians
      - Requires not having Esotericism, Literalism, and requires Gnostic Soteriology
      - Has a -10% learning lifestyle malus
      - Enables "Literalist Debate" interaction
      - Learning Education may also grant Wise Man/Woman trait
      - Pilgrimages have a change to grant or upgrade the Wise Man/Woman trait
      - Scholar and Wise Man/Woman are Virtues, Lazy is a Sin
   - Monasticism (Congregational Monasticism):
      - Models the development of larger congregations of monastics in the West, starting in the VIth century
      - Unavailble to Hindus
      - Unlocks the "Take Vows" decision
      - Can build Monasteries buildings in all holdings
      - +0.2 Development per construction in Temple and Temple Citadel holdings
      - Temperate is a Virtue, Gluttonous is a Sin
   - Redeeming Struggle: +50% Peasant and Populist faction military power
   - Christian Syncretism: Made unavailable to Jews
   - Rigorism: Requires either "Soteriology: Total Depravity" or "Soteriology: Gnosis" Doctrines for Christians
   - Pastoral Isolation: Considers other faiths of the same religion to be Astray instead of Hostile
   - Eastern Syncretism: Available to Dualist faiths and faiths with the Gnostic Tenet
   - Mountain Hermits:
      - No longer gets a bonus to convert faiths in mountains; retains the other bonuses
      - No longer gets mediation mechanics
   - Iconoclasm:
      - Models the Icon-Breaking aspects of Paulicianism and Byzantine Iconoclasm
      - Combines features of Aniconism and "Armed Pilgrimages" tenets
      - -20% Holy War Cost, +25% Conversion per controlled Holy Site
      - -33% Build Speed and Time for Temple Holding buildings
      - Destroying artifacts gives piety, repairing artifacts costs Piety
- Removed "Marcionite Canon", "Peregrination" Tenets
- Added a new Temple Authority Doctrine for some Jewish Sects
   - Models the various Jewish Christian sects that existed as part of the spectrum from the Ist to VIIth centuries
   - Views, and is viewed by, other Jewish Temple Authorities as Evil instead of hostile
   - Views Christians who are Judaizers or Supersessionists as hostile instead of evil
   - Compassionate is a Virtue, Callous and Sadistic are Sins

Religion:
- Hindu faiths implicitly have the "Take Vows" interaction decision
- Added a few faiths relating to Jewish Christianity:
   - Nazarenes (Christian Faith):
      - Models the Jewish Christian communities that remained more in line with Proto-Orthodoxy
      - Uses "Pastoral Isolation", "Communal Identity", Aniconism tenets
      - Uses Doctrines "Religious Head: None", "Religious Attitude: Pluralistic", "Coronation: No Anointment", "Clerical Tradition: Lay Clergy"
      - "Clerical Function: Alms and Pacification", "Clerical Marriage: Allowed", "Clerical Appointment: Temporal, For Life"
      - Christian Doctrines: Adoptionism, "Dynamic Monarchianism", Modalism, Memorialism, Pelagianism, Judaizers, Local Rite
   - Elcesaites (Jewish Faith):
      - Represents the Gnostic Elcesaites present in Asoristan from the IInd to Vth Centuries
      - Uses Gnosticism, Esotericism, "Sanctioned False Conversions" Tenets
      - Uses Doctrines "Religious Head: None", "Religious Attitude: Pluralistic", "Coronation: No Anointment"
      - Uses Criminal Doctrines Shunned as a rule, in line with the emphasis on rebaptism for remission of all sins
      - Uses Doctrines "Halakha Authority: Messianic"
   - Bardaisanism (Dualist Faith):
      - Models the various movements started by Bardaisan around Edessa from the IInd to the VIIIth centuries
      - Uses "Astrology", "Reincarnation", "Sanctioned False Conversions" Tenets
      - Uses "Religious Attitude: Fundamentalist", "Clerical Tradition: Theocratic" doctrines
      - Uses "Christian Syncretism" Gnostic Doctrine
- Overhauled Tenets and Doctrines of some Christian faiths for more variety and accuracy
   - Chalcedonian Church: Replaces "Monasticism" with "Cenobitic Monasticism"
   - Celtic Church: Replaces "Peregrination" with "Frontier Monastics", adds "Divorce: Divorce Allowed", "Clerical Appointment: Temporal, for Life"
   - Gallican Church: Replaces "Communion" with "Scholasticism", replaces "Monasticism" with "Cenobitic Monasticism"
   - Hispanic Church: Replaces Adaptive with Legalism, adds Religious Attitude: Righteous
   - African Church: Replaces Communion with "Render unto Caesar", Monasticism with Scholasticism
   - Maronite Church: Replaces "Monasticism" with "Cenobitic Monasticism"
   - Syriac Orthodox: Replaces Communion with "Communal Identity", replaces "Monasticism" with "Cenobitic Monasticism"
   - Armenian Church: Replaces "Monasticism" with "Mountain Hermits"
   - Georgian Orthodox: Replaces "Monasticism" with "Adaptive", add "Religious Attitude: Pluralistic"
   - Aghwank Church: Replaces "Communion" with "Mendicant Preachers", "Monasticism" with "Cenobitic Monasticism"
   - Ethiopian Church: Replaces "Monasticism" with "Cenobitic Monasticism", "Scholasticism" with "Communal Identity"
   - Arianism: Replaces "Armed Pilgrimages" with "Pentarchy"
   - Donatism: Replaces Monasticism with "Communal Identity", Adds Soteriology: Total Depravity, Clerical Function: Recruitment
   - Pelagianism: Replaces Communion with "Religious Law", Monasticism with "Cenobitic Monasticism"
   - Audianism: Replaces Communion with "Pastoral Isolation", replaces "Monasticism" with "Cenobitic Monasticism", adds "Religious Attitude: Righteous", "Clerical Function: Alms and Pacification", "Male Adultery: Accepted", "Female Adultery: Accepted"
   - Montanism: Replaces Monasticism with Rigorism Tenet, Adds "Soteriology: Total Depravity", adds "Divorce: Disallowed"
   - Marcionism: Uses "Asceticism", "Rigorism", "Literalism"
   - Priscilianism: Uses Asceticism, "Complex Exegesis", Astrology
   - Bosnian Church: Uses "Frontier Monastics", "Sacred Mountains", "Humble Savior" Tenets, adds "Inscribed Monuments" doctrine
   - Pneumatomachi: Uses "Communion" Tenet instead of "Aniconism", adds "Religious Attitude: Fundamentalist" doctrine, "Head of Faith: Spiritual", "Coronation: Anointment Permitted"
   - Melchisdechianism: Uses "Pacifism" instead of "Ritual Celebrations", "Esotericism" instead of "Monasticism", Adds "Witchcraft: Accepted", "Male Adultery: Criminal" Doctrines
   - Messalianism: Uses "Esotericism" instead of "Monasticism"
   - Paulicianism: Uses "Communal Possessions" instead of "Communion"
   - Orthodoxy: Uses "Cenobitic Monasticism" instead of "Monasticism"
- Overhauled some Jewish faiths:
   - Ebionites: Made Jewish Religion, Replaces "Armed Pilgrimages" with "Communal Identity", along with "Halakha Authority: Messianic"
- Overhauled some Buddhist faiths:
   - Avatamsaka: Uses "Mind without Mind" instead of "Monasticism"
   - Acharya: Uses "Inner Journey" instead of "Monasticism"
- Overhauled some Dualist faiths:
   - Manicheanism: Uses "Cenobitic Monasticism" instead of "Monasticism"
   - Valentinianism: Uses "Cenobitic Monasticism" instead of "Monasticism"
   - Sethianism: Uses "Cenobitic Monasticism" instead of "Monasticism"
- Overhauled some Hindu Faiths:
   - Shaivism: Uses "Esotericism" instead of "Monasticism"
   - Smartism: Uses "Ritual Hospitality" instead of "Monasticism"
   - Krishnaism: Uses "Preservation" instead of "Monasticism"
- Overhauled Other Faiths:
   - Gyur Bon: Uses "Cenobitic Monasticism" instead of "Monasticism", uses "Patron Gods" instead of "Inner Journey"

Decisions:
- Peregrination decision removed, as the tenet no longer exists

History:
- Updated province and character history to better historical Christian adherences

Bugs:
- Fixed "Complex Exegesis" being unavailable to Christians
- Fixed Zeno's armies starving to death
- Fixed up heritage and linguistic drift spamming too much and hanging a bit

GFX:
- Updated several faith icons

Localization:
- Re-localized "Monasticism" to "Congregational Monasticism"
- Updated localizations for some Holy Orders for various Christian faiths
- Updated Caucasian Albanian name and description for a more general religion between both the Parthian ruling class and the populace
- "Communal Identity" and "Legal Pronouncements" re-localizes to Jewish localizations if a Christian faith has Judaizers doctrine
- "Righteous Rebirth" Tenet given a new localization for Christians, "Humble Savior"
- Lapsi localization for Excommunication used for faiths using the African Rite or Rigorism Tenet
- Re-localized "Alexandrian Catechism" to "Scholasticism", which is anachronistic but less so than the current description
- Replaced some references to Saint Patrick, as it is anachronistic for the early Late Antique Period

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