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All of Earth’s major
religions retain followers in
2100. They often struggle
to reconcile age-old beliefs
with paradigm-shifting
technologies such as sapient
AI and human immortality.
For the most part
they succeed: no meme
can survive centuries or
millennia without being
resilient enough to adapt.

In addition to larger
religions, there are many
smaller faiths – some of
recent origin, such as the
cybergnostic cults and Christian
hyperevolutionists, others
well established. Many are
splinters of established religions,
while others are secular philosophies
with semi-religious overtones.
Members of some new religions that
engender fanatical faith and exercise
high-level control over their membership are
often pejoratively referred to as “cultists” or
“memebots.”

Most major religions have an offworld presence.
Luna tends to be more secular, but Mars has many believers;
there are large Christian and Islamic groups, and
many Taoists. For a time, China used the Red Planet
as a safety valve for religious nonconformists. Mars
boasts some of the system’s most impressive
mosques and cathedrals (due to the low gravity).

Some believers go into space to escape what they see
as memetic pollution created by the rise of a secularized
machine society. Others leave Earth to escape real or perceived
persecution for exotic beliefs or practices. Of
course, many isolates stay Earthbound, using minifacturing
and colonization technology to set up religious
retreats in out-of-the-way locations such as Antarctica.

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