Religion in Freelancer?

[beander2]

I don't really believe Christianity survived. Not really. The festivals are probably still there, but the religion, well. I doubt it. Got replaced in colonial times with what is already budding today...

Not sure I buy that, considering the past two millennia and the continued rates of growth in various traditions - including Christianity - concurrently with the development of science and technology. It's much more cyclical, and I seriously doubt it would have died out.

It might be manifested in very different ways, however.

I just don't see the majority of Bretonians paying lip service to a religion, and I certainly don't see them earnestly following one.

They're Atheist, or Agnostic, or Deist, and they replaced 'religion' with nationalism. Loyalty to the Queen, a desire to make Bretonia a better House, Etc.

But you're missing the fact that nationalism like this has coexisted with formal religion in syncretized form for centuries already. They often tend to reinforce each other. For instance, as you're well aware of, the British monarch is also nominally head of the Church of England. I see it much more likely that such an arrangement would continue - although with significant modification - than that it would die out altogether. It just doesn't work that way.

You are correct, however, in suggesting that nationalism is a form of religion, or is tantamount to a theological system.

Edit: This is not to say that the syncretized form would be recognized by all in that faith tradition as orthodox. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar