Re: Religious Festivities

Carlos Thompson wrote:
> From Jewish tradition I know about Hanuka and Passover.
Yom Kippur (Jewish New Year, IIRC?), Rosh Hashanah (sp?) are two others.

> 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.