Re: Religious Festivities

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> 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.
Oops!  Thanks for your correction.

> 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.
Right, there are a few exceptions, but by and large, most futurists seem
to think that mankind will be atheistic in the future.  Several novels
I've read have expressed that quite explicitely.

> Perhaps the idea is that humans have outgrown religion in favor of
> science.
Which, I suppose, tells us far more about the authors than the future.
Apparently, sci-fi seems to attract people who feel that relgion is
anachronistic, which I most definitely disagree with.