Just finished a game where, very early on, my entire empire converted to my neighbour's religion.

This caused a lot of trouble during the whole game since a lot of other AI considered that I was "oppressing the faithful".

In theory, I would have solved that by changing my state religion but, unfortunately, I looked everywhere and couldn't find the option to do so, even though the wiki and the "civilopedia" mentioned that it was possible (sadly they didn't say where and how to do it).

Thanks.

I remember there being a button to do that, back in the opendevs before release, which was located on the menu that pops up after pressing the religion button, but it seems like it has been removed.

Wait!

RNGZero discovered a workeround to that problem:

• Click the religion circle
• press the buttons CTRL + F + 5

Is it perhaps a design choice where if you found a religion you can't switch off of it unless a different religion has majority over yours? Haven't played enough yet to understand the idea behind religion in this regard