Two things:
1. The continent separation makes major problems, because people, with good reason, have their characters all follow a religion from their first realm...That doesn't show up anywhere else.
2. Until and unless religions gain the ability to passively gain resources, nothing will change.
1: Perhaps we should work on identifying a religion that would possibly be portable. SA, obviously, although I think it would gain massive resistance. Maybe MAE, Apostles of the Abyss? A lot of wiki documentation would be helpful.
2. Maybe increase the peasant temple contributions, double them?