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To: Little Ray
Being an SF fan and a gamer, I've tried to imagine some alien religions.

Or, imagine how advanced humans will deal with religion. There was a sci-fi trilogy a few years back by Peter Hamilton called The Reality Dysfunction. In it, there was a group of humans, called Edenists, who had figured out a way to transfer their consciousness, upon death, into a sort of group mind. Effectively, this made them immortal. Doing this got them excommunicated by all of humanity's religions.

I wonder how our current religions will hold up a thousand years from now? Will genetically engineered humans living in habitats built in asteroid fields be able to relate in any way to the story of a Jewish carpenter or an Arabian tribal prophet?

350 posted on 02/12/2004 8:09:06 AM PST by Modernman ("When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." -Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Modernman
Read the first book and didn't see any point in reading further. Not my style: more of a David Weber fan.

The message has held up for two thousand years; why shouldn't it hold up for another thousand? The message is not about a Jewish Carpenter's son, it is about how to live. The Golden Rule has meaning no matter how advance a society gets.

564 posted on 02/13/2004 6:14:35 AM PST by Little Ray (Why settle for a Lesser Evil? Vote Cthuhlu for President!)
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