DDB writes: >I get cranky when far-future societies have anything recognizable as >religion, personally. Makes no sense it would last that long. -- Why not? It's lasted since at least the creation of writing--before that we're just guessing, but there's evidence of prehistoric religion if you want it to point that way. You want to argue that *any one* religion would fade out over time? I have less problem with that one. OTOH, Judaism has lasted 4000 years or so, and is still going strong. Who's to say it won't be around and recognizable for the next 4000 years? The Chosen People have held tenaciously to their religious identity through generations of diapora and exile; why would that change? Mia