Religion in Freelancer?

[bluntpencil2001]

They're not the IRA. They're not even Irish.

Yes they are. They want an independent Dublin. Sounds like a cheap IRA ripoff to me.

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[xSecret01]

Christianity is all about Jesus. Thing is, christians are still waiting him to come back but... where should he come back to? Earth does not exist anymore.

If you were a christian in the Freelancer universe, what would you think now?

[beander2]

Christianity is all about Jesus. Thing is, christians are still waiting him to come back but... where should he back to? Earth does not exist anymore.

If you were a christian in the Freelancer universe, what would you think now?

Great question. That would make for an excellent sci-fi novel...

As there have been throughout history, there would be adjustments made to theological thought, beginning with the assumption that previous interpretations of more "apocalyptic" passages were incorrect and need correction. This is much, much more likely than outright rejection of a faith. The core doctrine is not really affected all that much.

Edit: Btw, if you're interested in how various Christian or other "religious" thought has dealt with this question, there are plenty of books out there. You could start with C.S. Lewis' sci-fi trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength.

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar

[Sarawr!?]

This is all starting to remind me a little bit of Mass Effect...if any of you have played it, there is -one- Christian in it, and I remember her saying something along the lines of

"What? because I live in Space I can't believe in God?"

let's take a moment to think about that shall we?

I'm certain that they would think, in the FL universe, that God has forsaken them or some such thing like that..but I'm sure there would still be believers.

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[Niander]

Well, Nomads are taken as some sort of spirit form in certain houses and factions,
And if you think back to the past of coalition and allaince no doubt there would of been some religion but it would of lost favor, the people would be constantly switching and therefore when they reached sirius the amount of people that didnt have religious beliefs was large

[Sarawr!?]

Well, Nomads are taken as some sort of spirit form in certain houses and factions,
And if you think back to the past of coalition and allaince no doubt there would of been some religion but it would of lost favor, the people would be constantly switching and therefore when they reached sirius the amount of people that didnt have religious beliefs was large

I agree with the first half of this.

You could consider the Outcast Worshipping of the Nomads as a Religious following of sorts.

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[xSecret01]

Well, one could say that religion is like a drug for the humankind. Most of the people always needed to 'believe' in something. It's in the human nature I think. So, I guess there could be some sort of religion(s) but it wouldn't be anything like what we have today.

[Sarawr!?]

I'm going to create a Freelancing Priest now, for the lulz.

please don't hate me!

XD.

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[Unseelie]

The Bretonian sleeper ship brought about 50 thousand people. These were likely not a random sample of people, but assume that they were. How many of them were likely to be religious? Religious enough to build a church in the new world, teach their children more than to be good to their neighbors, and enjoy the occasional festivals? How many people, today, do that, in Britain?

I'm not saying Christianity would be gone...but I don't think it would hold nearly as much sway. I, of course, don't have any first hand experience, but I've always been taught that the world wars killed god in Europe. The coalition was, correct me if I'm wrong, atheist. Their war lasted hundreds of years. People forgot what started it. Thats a horrid, Horrid war, there. It might be hard to embrace the concept of a benevolent universe after something like that.

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[Sarawr!?]

The Bretonian sleeper ship brought about 50 thousand people. These were likely not a random sample of people, but assume that they were. How many of them were likely to be religious? Religious enough to build a church in the new world, teach their children more than to be good to their neighbors, and enjoy the occasional festivals? How many people, today, do that, in Britain?

I'm not saying Christianity would be gone...but I don't think it would hold nearly as much sway. I, of course, don't have any first hand experience, but I've always been taught that the world wars killed god in Europe. The coalition was, correct me if I'm wrong, atheist. Their war lasted hundreds of years. People forgot what started it. Thats a horrid, Horrid war, there. It might be hard to embrace the concept of a benevolent universe after something like that.

I would imagine that yes, the Coalition is Atheist, after all we are Communists, and -most- if not all Communist Governments tend toward Atheism.

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