Re: Religious Festivities

Nik Taylor wrote:

> > After Hangkerim is a secular society
>
> 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?  Largely for that reason=
,
> my concultures are religious - the Faithful Ones obviously are
> religious, hence their name (all others are heathens and infidels), and
> the Humans on Terno'u (as the planet is known in the modern form) are
> descended from a religious colony.  That's not to say that there isn't
> freedom of religion, mind you.  The humans do respect other religions
> (well, most of them do), but the main religion, called Purified
> Christianity by the practioners is a major part of the culture.
I think that's, in part, just because many of the writers were themselves
like that.  Not that that's bad, but even people like Isaac Asimov, whom
any devoted scifi reader should know well, was quite adamant about
his atheism, even to the point, if I remember correctly, of being a prose=
lyte
for it.


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