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<blockquote data-quote="ragboy" data-source="post: 1849031" data-attributes="member: 4151">Harlin's House&nbsp;With the rise of the Humanists, the System Accords of 2200 essentially banned religion from everyday life. At that time, approximately 1% of the solar system still practiced an organized religion, from the neo-Meditationists on Titan's desolate plains to the Godkeepers in their eternal sleep near the Oort cloud. At that time, Harlin Duprey was a young man in seminary on Plaxin Station. While he understood why the people of the solar system were approaching a time of godlessness (persecution of Humanists by a variety of religious zealots being one of the main factors in a succession of wars over the last century), he believed what he believed and he believed that there was still a place for religion in people's lives. &nbsp;That's why he founded Harlin's House. Not so much a house as a collection of cargo containers, decommissioned capital ships, and various system detritus spot-welded together, the House left the solar system ten years after the Humanist Accords took effect. On Harlin's House, all religious views are represented and respected; It's the law. Even the lack of religion is respected, if little understood by the other inhabitants. Though many expected the House to dissolve into internecine, the opposite has occurred. All the major religions have merged into a single tapestry of belief. Even those tenets that seem incompatible are explained away as the capriciousness of the higher being(s).&nbsp;Next up: Salacious Prime</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ragboy, post: 1849031, member: 4151"] [b]Harlin's House[/b] With the rise of the Humanists, the System Accords of 2200 essentially banned religion from everyday life. At that time, approximately 1% of the solar system still practiced an organized religion, from the neo-Meditationists on Titan's desolate plains to the Godkeepers in their eternal sleep near the Oort cloud. At that time, Harlin Duprey was a young man in seminary on Plaxin Station. While he understood why the people of the solar system were approaching a time of godlessness (persecution of Humanists by a variety of religious zealots being one of the main factors in a succession of wars over the last century), he believed what he believed and he believed that there was still a place for religion in people's lives. That's why he founded Harlin's House. Not so much a house as a collection of cargo containers, decommissioned capital ships, and various system detritus spot-welded together, the House left the solar system ten years after the Humanist Accords took effect. On Harlin's House, all religious views are represented and respected; It's the law. Even the lack of religion is respected, if little understood by the other inhabitants. Though many expected the House to dissolve into internecine, the opposite has occurred. All the major religions have merged into a single tapestry of belief. Even those tenets that seem incompatible are explained away as the capriciousness of the higher being(s). [b]Next up: Salacious Prime[/b] [/QUOTE]

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