Religion in this world is something I'm expanding on alongside Autumn's story, but I do have a rough summary of things I can share right now.
Autumn's religion's bible says that before the time God died, some people had magic, some didn't. Those who did have magic were in the Divine Class, and ruled over the non divine class. One day, the humans realized all of this inequality came from their God, so they gathered an army and went towards God (who was said to physically live on this planet) with the intent to die for their freedom. Upon delivering their demands, their God took a look at itself and what it had created and felt regret. Their god either let himself be killed, or killed himself. Autumn's religion loves this God, but understands magic is bad and his death was good for humanity. The Creator metaphorically 'freed' his children by dying.
There is also an antithesis to this religion. They would have considered this "God" to be a devil or demon who hoarded all of the mana and gained so much power he ruled over the planet. These people believe in magic and practice it. They want to return to the times of the Divine Class, they want to be treated like gods themselves. They want to rule, but do it right.
As far as being used for politics, it isn't really. One could follow this religion and believe elves are lesser, or believe elves are equal. You've already heard the excuse of "Well it says only HUMANS are equal, doesn't mention elves." In fact their religion sort of condemns slavery in a way by specifically stating all humans are to be equal to each other, they just didn't know about other intelligent creatures at the time.
The religion was formed centuries after their God had died.
Thank you for the information. I am looking forward to seeing what all you do with this stuff. So it does not hold much sway as far as world politics go? Like in our world religion holds a lot of power over many countries. Even the ones who do not have state religions and stuff. In the States a large population is Christian so it can be difficult to get into political offices if you are not at least pretending to be of the faith. So I take it that means that this religion is not overly large then and in fact it could hamper your ability to amass political capital. Like if say on 10% or so of people believed in it the rest would possibly look down upon them.
It makes me wonder if there are actually other religions in the world. Or if it would mostly be offshoots of Autumns religion but more like cults. If there is magic to be had that means power. So I would guess that small groups may be working behind the scenes in order to try different things. If some people want to try and be Divine classes but do it right....that means there are people who would want to do it for the opposite reasons.
Now the question becomes was this God a real being? Was he a creator or just a being who ascended by gathering the most power. Then there is stuff like morality did this god punish people for thought crimes or have his own plane of existence. Heaven? Hell? Or just a being so powerful that "God" was the only way to describe it. Then would be stuff like Angels/Demons. Not trying to get answers out of you, just speculation. I appreciate the response.