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With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out – or worse.
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action.
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that’s usually what I focus on.
Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe.
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
I also don’t have organized religion on Pern. I figured – since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing – that religion was one problem Pern didn’t need.