religion

now that i am accustomed to the game and how exactly to play, almost knowing the best possible strategies, i have begun messing with religion a little bit. in the first few games that i played, i went along with whatever religion that was suggested by the game. this strategy allowed for many differnt religions within my empire, with each differnt city having many religions. i soon realized that it would make more sense to have only one religion throughout my whole empire as it would save a lot of resources. one thing that it would save is numerous differnt religious missionaries. these differnt missionaries take up turns in which you could be generating new technologies or enhancing your military. also, using one religion dissolves the point of building different temples and synogogues and churches which also saves resources and turns like i have previously mentioned. since there isnt any special bonus for having numerous differnt religions, i have realized that a monoreligious empire is probably the best possible move in terms of the religious aspect of the game.