@PouyPouy Well I don't mean to be insulting, local churches have been an immense source of good and shelter throughout history, but almost all large scale religious efforts have not been great. Whether it's just inherent corruption as with wealth hording or pedophilia rings, or people using religion to justify abhorrent actions like the crusades, jihads, inquisition, witch burning, or mass conversion which really came down to change your way of life or it's genocide. Plus as a narrative structure, if you have the handsome prince as an ally, the state religion makes a powerful antagonist. Zealotry is also an easy and simple to write motivation for a 'villain'. But it is very much a played out troupe at this point, then again 'godless heathen' was the antagonist norm for millennia a century ago, so swings and roundabouts.