The third Technic History instalment, "The Problem of Pain," introduces the Ythrian New Faith of God the Hunter and contrasts it both with the Old Faith of bloody polytheist sacrifices and with the Christianity of Peter Berg, a human being from the planet, Aeneas. In The Day Of Their Return, we learn that Aeneans are apocalyptic, believing variously in Christianity and in the imminent return of the Ancients.
Also:
Adzel's Mahayana Buddhism;
Merseian ancient polytheism and racist monotheism;
Ikranankan demonology but standard polytheism in the Twilight Zone;
Gwydiona pantheism.
A rich mixture.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
But you have argued, convincingly, that Jerusalem Catholics are Roman/Eastern rite Catholics. What happened, you suggested, was the Papacy relocating to or near Jerusalem.
In one of his letters to me Anderson speculated the Jerusalem Catholic Church is what the Catholic Church became in the aftermath to the Second Vatican Council.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Yes, I do think that the simplest explanation is that Roman Catholicism became Jerusalem Catholicism.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Which raises the question of what HAPPENED to force the Papacy to leave its ancient home? Was Rome destroyed before "The Saturn Game"? And we are within not much more than 25 years of the date of that story. An uneasy thought!
Ad astra! Sean
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Sean,
I suggest a terrorist attack on the Vatican but this is mere speculation.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Considering the chaos of our times that is all too plausible a suggestion. And such an attack might destroy the entire city of Rome.
Ad astra! Sean
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