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Re: Religious Festivities

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Thursday, December 24, 1998, 14:18
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= ). -- o_o =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3Dw=3D=3D=3Dw=3D=3D=3D=3D####### Chlewey Thompin ## #### http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/ ## ## ## ------------------------------------------------##-## ## ### - =BFPor qu=E9 no? - No tiene sentido. - =BFQu=E9 sentido? El sentido no existe. - El sentido inverso. O el sentido norte. El sentido com=FAn, tal ve= z. O sin sentido, como aqu=ED. (-- Graeville 2)