On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Mia McDavid wrote: > Speaking of religion in literature, one of the *many* things I love > about David Weber's work is that the Christian church is very much > present in Honor's universe. I get cranky when societies have total > absence of religion--individuals may be athiests, but humans as a group > are going to worship *something*. *shrug* I just always assumed that unless the characters specifically said there was no god/religion, it was just behind the scenes and deemed not terribly important to the story, or too complicated to be worth getting into. But in response to the last statement, couldn't humans worship/believe in themselves, and thus appear to be atheists? ****** NyteMuse "Call her life unnatural, feel her undead breath. Color her black for sorcery, color her gray for death." AIM: NyteMuse139 / ICQ: #21966269 (NyteMuse) MSN: NyteMuse / Yahoo!ID: NyteMuse http://www.crowfire.com