Re: Religious Festivities

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> > 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.
It is interesting that there was a school of belief in the late 18th
century that held that religion would wither away within a century under
the onslaught of "pure Reason"--never realizing that they had merely
created a cult of Reason.