The traveling preachers of the First Great Awakening traveled across the Colonies, and even into Indian Territory to spread their word. They said we should have an emotional relationship with God, not merely sit in a pew and listen to what a priest told us in a dry sermon. The worth of man was based on the way he lived, not the class or even race he was born into. The King of England, who of course ruled by Divine Providence, did not approve of such teachings.
The Indian worlds are different from most other worlds I’ve been to. India is one of the oldest civilizations out there, with cities thousands of years old on Earth. I’ve been there, and the sense of age is amazing. The crazy thing is, they’ve somehow managed to keep that feel in their new colonies. Going there, it’s hard to realize that they’re only decades or centuries old. They feel…real old. Established. Like India has always been there.
The colonists of Novaya Rodina were screened for any illness, and any genetic predilections towards them. Every future colonist was similarly screened, to keep the planet itself from killing them. They were an entire population chosen from the best of the best of the best, both physically and mentally. The planet still almost killed them, but the survivors adapted and in time became something even greater. Novayan. What many call a new race of humanity.
The 1700s were a time of religious revival in America. The First Great Awakening it is called. New preachers taught that the Bible said all men were created equal, and that it was our place to read the Bible and debate its meaning with anyone, even our ministers. They challenged authority to fractious Colonists who had left England to escape religious persecution. They were a willing and ready congregation for those preachers.
The African colonies are interesting. I love visiting, but my word are they not exactly what I’d call normal. The Africans have totally different cultural ideas, and they love planets that I could barely live on. Oh, every planet has a range of environments. They are planets after all. Really big balls of dirt. But them Africans sure do like to place their cities and spaceports in the really hot parts of those planets. I try not to stay in those places long.
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