Re: Religious Festivities

Nik Taylor wrote:

> > After Hangkerim is a secular society
>
> Why is it that most sci-fi con-cultures are atheistic?
Hangkerimians are not atheist, actually.  The society is secular but most=
 of the
people are very influenced by the traditional religion.  They just don't
recognize that fact.  Definitively goverments are not religious (but many=

governants has been), but a teocracy can't fit in the mind of Hangkerim p=
eople,
not even the most religious ones, because its religion is not about power=
 but
about service.

But religion has been incompatible with political and economical power (a=
nd
somehow with science, but this is a less important fact).  There was some=

foraign thinker that showed that commanding a nation and getting politica=
l power
would never _bring you to the haven_ but would _lead you to hell_.  She b=
elieved
that religion is something a king should not have but appropiate religion=
 was
something the ruled people should have.  But Hangkerim religion was not t=
he
appropiate religion because they wouldn't accept an omnipotent ruler.  Pu=
blic
education, and many other attemps have been conducted by many kings, dict=
ators
and parlamentarians leading people to an agnostic society.  But the bases=
 of not
accepting a supreme power has not been removed yet... because most kings,=

dictators, and parlamentarians do believe in them (nut they don't know it=
).



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