Documentism

Documentism is a salticid belief system based on the literal application of the teachings of the Document in daily life. It is the state religion of Portia and the Portian Empire.

History
Documentism has its origins in the late Terran Mingle, developing from a belief that Mingle society had veered too far away from the Document's teachings and did not take its stories and mythology literally enough. It held that the gods were literal beings who judged salticids harshly and whose will should be followed at all costs by every member of society. By the -20s PT, most Terran salticids believed in the gods as abstract representations of ideas told by storytellers, and favored a belief system that emphasized personal growth and a personal relationship to the gods and nature rather than rigid religious structure. These beliefs would eventually crystallize into Terran Sun Worship, and the conflict between these two emerging ideologies was probably at the root of the Founding of Portia and the Portian claim to the ideas and characters in the Document as their own.