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+======Religion======
+Religion is one of the most powerful factors in human history. The power of faith and religious belief has created two stellar nations, and even beyond the borders of the [[hatire_community|Hatire Community]] and the [[orlamu_theocracy|Orlamu Theocracy]], more than half of all sentients consider themselves believers in one faith or another. Even those who don’t profess a particular belief system are affected by religious forces.
+All religions struggle with the issues of faith and destiny. It’s not enough to simply look back on the words of prophets and ancient texts. People want to know where they’re going—as a culture, as a nation, as species. As humanity and its allies adapt to their first few centuries in space, their solutions to the puzzle of belief have become more complicated than ever.
+[[hatire_religion|Hatire]]
-====== Religion ======
-Religion is one of the most powerful factors in human history. The power of faith and religious belief has created two stellar nations, and even beyond the borders of the Hatire Community and the Orlamu Theocracy, more than half of all sentients consider themselves believers in one faith or another. Even those who don’t profess a particular belief system are affected by religious forces.
-All religions struggle with the issues of faith and destiny. It’s not enough to simply look back on the words of prophets and ancient texts. People want to know where they’re going—as a culture, as a nation, as species. As humanity and its allies adapt to their first few centuries in space, their solutions to the puz-zle of belief have become more complicated than ever.
-===== HATIRE =====
-The Hatire are followers of a god they call the Cosimir, an alien deity that they have adopt-ed as their own. Though they became infa-mous for their “by-the-sword” conversions during GW2, they are also well-known for their passionate dislike of advanced technolo-gy, especially tech that alters the human body. In truth, the Brethren of the Hatire Community—which accounts for more than half the total followers of the faith—follow a conservative philosophy and lifestyle that seems to invite attack and ridicule by outsid-ers.
-The Brethren accept the burden of their repu-tation, as undeserved as they believe it to be. Why? Like most religions founded in the last three centuries, the Hatire faith is a proselytiz-ing one. The Hatire see themselves as mis-sionaries, determined to bring trust in the Co-simir to the masses, exalting in the spirit revered by the long-vanished dwellers of Ha-ven. For both the Brethren and the ancients whose stories they have translated, worship is about purity and purification. All other factors being equal, the ideal Hatire life pursues sim-ple harmony, without complicated technolo-gy to distract the spirit. It would be a simple agrarian life, focused on spiritual contempla-tion. Nothing would stand between a believ-er and the universe.
-This is not the universe the followers of the Cosimir must live in. In a fierce, contentious universe, the Hatire must gird themselves with weapons and technology they abhor. The Hatire priesthood offers special dispensa-tions, called technology indulgences, to those who volunteer to contaminate themselves in this way. The Brethren must fight fierce wars, undertake far-flung expeditions, and even research spaceships and other instruments, though ultimately these things are only dis-tractions from the truly important goals in life.
-Missionaries of the Cosimir travel throughout the Stellar Ring and beyond, spreading the word. The average believer can comfort her-self with the though of someday returning to the spiritual life—once all of humanity has been prepared for it. That’s the job of the Co-simir’s disciples. The most famous are the Hat-ire Mind Knights, trained in special academies such as the Mindanaoth Academy of Grith in the Verge or the Académie du Monde on the Stellar capital of Haven. The Hatire’s less vio-lent followers include its telepathic Seers and the members of the Chorus.
-The ranks of the faith are fairly simple. Breth-ren begin as reverents, then they become or-
-dained missioners, for a local church and pos-sibly diocesans, responsible for an entire plan-et.
-The Chorus is a Hatire religious order that be-lieves faith heals injuries. Chorus members view psychometabolists as masters of the Hat-ire faith, adepts who have perfected them-selves and others without using technology. The largest Chorus community in the Verge dwells within the Forest Cathedral on Grith, a moon in the Corrivale system.
-The Hatire faith continues to grow, especially within the Thuldan Empire. While it’s true that Hatire ministers have had to adapt their teachings to overlook the Empire’s manipula-tion of the human genome, belief in the Co-simir is winning over the hearts of the Thuldan people—members of a culture that the Brethren consider spiritually bankrupt and ready for change.
 [[humanity reformation religion|Humanity Reformation]]
 [[insightful_relgion|Insightful]]
 [[Orlamism religion|Orlamism]]
-===== Old Earth Religions =====
+=====Old Earth Religions=====
 Waves of emigration from humanity’s homeworld have yet to weaken the venerable belief systems developed on its surface. Some have seen a percentage decrease in their numbers compared to the whole of the population. This decline can be partly attributed to the same factors that led to the [[First Galactic War]]; far from religious centers and leadership that were still based within the Sol system, faith among the colonial powers wandered.  It’s also likely that the discovery of non-human sentient life—and the unfriendly response that more conservative religious groups offered—played a role in decreasing the attendance of some Old Earth churches, synagogues and temples.
 Yet as human population has grown, so have the numbers of followers of most Old Earth faiths. Missionaries sent to convert the alien species have enjoyed some moderate success as well. More than one and a half trillion sentient beings follow an Old Earth faith. All of the major religions in existence prior to the discovery of the [[stardrive]] still flourish, including Christianity (in all its denominations), Buddhism (in Theravada, Mahayana, and Tantric branches), Islam (both Sunni and Shia), Judaism (in all of its sects and divisions), and Hinduism (in three major traditions encompassing a variety of sects).
-====== Alien Religions ======
+===== Alien Religions =====
 The alien [[species]] encountered by humanity haven’t embraced human religions as quickly as they’ve embraced human technology. Indeed, all of the sentient species have offered up their own answers to religious questions—though most humans find these answers almost incomprehensible.
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 [[weren heresies religion|The Weren Heresies]]
+{{tag>religion hatire tsa fraal weren mechalus human}}

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