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I do not known enough to have a discussion about the level of resemblance to modern-day religions. But the text shows that some aspects of modern-day religion
by eesmith 4y ago
I do not known enough to have a discussion about the level of resemblance to modern-day religions.
But the text shows that some aspects of modern-day religion are still present. Here are two examples from Children of Dune:
The O.C. Bible has "Maleficos non patieris vivere", from the Latin Vulgate, Exodus 22:18. In KJV this is translated as "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live", which is also the translation used in the story - https://archive.org/details/dunemessiahchild0000herb/page/262/mode/2up?q=Catholic https://archive.org/details/dunemessiahchild0000herb/page/26... .
And knowledge of St. Thomas of Canterbury (saint in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion) survives:
> Leto crouched in the lee of his dune and waited for the night to settle into its own rhythms. Patience and caution—caution and patience. For a time he amused himself by reviewing Chaucer’s route from London to Canterbury, listing the places from Southwark: two miles to the watering-place of St. Thomas, five miles to Deptford, six miles to Greenwich, thirty miles to Rochester, forty miles to Sittingbourne, fifty-five miles to Boughton under Blean, fifty-eight miles to Harbledown, and sixty miles to Canterbury. It gave him a sense of timeless buoyancy to know that few in his universe would recall Chaucer or know any London except the village on Gansireed. St. Thomas was preserved in the Orange Catholic Bible and the Azhar Book, ... - https://archive.org/details/dunemessiahchild0000herb/page/434/mode/2up?q=Canterbury https://archive.org/details/dunemessiahchild0000herb/page/43...
This implies that at least a couple current views of religion remain.