Come On Down

[poliphilo]

A sci-fi fantasy I'm fond of- The Saga of the Exiles- predicates an alien intervention at the beginning of the 21st century (in fact, any time now.) The aliens- who are nice chaps- allow us the join their Federation, but on certain conditions. One of the conditions is that we abandon all but one of our religions.

And we do. Just like that.

How I wish. How I wish....

For some reason the religion we choose to retain is Roman Catholicism.

A certain leeway is allowed. People are permitted to flavour their Catholicism with Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or whatever they used to adhere to. But I don't remember there being any Muslim-flavoured Catholics or Southern Baptist-flavoured Catholics.

It's a silly book.

I wonder how long it's actually going to take us to get beyond our religious differences.
How many thousands of years.

Comments

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

::sigh:: I know what you mean, but mostly because it sucks to be a Jew during the holiday season :(

::Puts on Rodney Dangerfield voice:: We don't get no respect!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, that must be a pain.

But so much of the Christmas stuff is purely secular/pagan. The Christians didn't invent Christmas; they took over a pre-existing feast (which was too popular to suppress) and gave it a bit of a tweak.

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true. I just hate how so many of them mob the stores and completely forget or ignore the actual meaning. Oh well :\