Re: [TML] [Freelance Traveller] Proposed Theme Issue: Religion Mark Urbin 11 Sep 2021 13:20 UTC
Traveller era "Cargo Cult" religions on low tech planets at the fringes of the Empire. The priests vestments include large shirts with brightly colored flower patterns. On 9/10/2021 7:14 PM, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via tml list) wrote: > ... which is fine for play, but that sort of thing IMO approaches > "California Cult of the Week" status a little too closely for a respectful > approach to religion for the proposed Theme Issue. > > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:16:29 -0400, "Mark Urbin <xxxxxx@urbin.net> wrote: > >> I had a character who was a devout member of the Church of Elvis. >> >> On 9/9/2021 5:34 AM, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk >> (via tml list) wrote: >>> Greetings >>> >>> On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 01:25, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at >>> freelancetraveller.com <http://freelancetraveller.com> (via tml list) >>> <xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote: >>> >>> In going through my list of ideas for Theme Issues, it occurred to >>> me that >>> Traveller comes across as indifferent to religion. >>> >>> >>> I suppose it would be remiss of me not to point towards: >>> https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/columns/nubiref/religion.html >>> <https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/columns/nubiref/religion.html> >>> which might help folks' thinking on the subject. >>> >>> tc > > ®Traveller is a registered trademark of > Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2020. Use of > the trademark in this notice and in the > referenced materials is not intended to > infringe or devalue the trademark. >