Re: Religious Festivities

Nik Taylor wrote:
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> Carlos Thompson wrote:
> > From Jewish tradition I know about Hanuka and Passover.
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> Yom Kippur (Jewish New Year, IIRC?), Rosh Hashanah (sp?) are two others.
Rosh Hashanah (lit. "the head or start of the year") is the New Year.
Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, the most solemn and important day.

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> > After Hangkerim is a secular society
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> Why is it that most sci-fi con-cultures are atheistic?  I've noticed
> that in nearly every futuristic novel I've read, religion is portrayed
> as something of the past.  Why should that be?
Well, there are religious people in Star Trek, such as the Bajorans.
Also, I was browsing through Arthur C. Clarke's _3001_ one time and it
looked like people in that time frame believed in God, but called him
by his Latin name, Deus, IIRC.

Perhaps the idea is that humans have outgrown religion in favor of
science.