i might not be the biggest fan of organized religion but i love thinking about the necessary bureaucratic shenanigans and adaptations of traditions to those established faiths in space-set scifi
how do you prostrate yourself pointing towards mecca in zero-g in saturn's orbit. are we going to have an Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Luna. What if the Swiss Guard starts training as a specialty anti-boarding shipborne force to protect the Pope's person in case of attempted capture of his Papal Spacecraft. How will traditional models of cross-species reincarnation classify unusual alien life
delicious alien livestock discovered, commence decade long debate on kosher status
Ah yes, the space “fish” of Kepler 22b. To eat or not to eat during Lent? What does it mean for Jesus to have died so long ago on so distant a planet as Earth?
To blow a shofar using the horn of a space “ram” from TRAPPIST-1f. Would the skin of these creatures make for good parchment to fulfill the mitzvah of writing a Torah? What ink could we use?
The endless debate over whether the six-legged, ground-dwelling entities of Gliese 667Cc are halal, haram, or makruh. And over how to observe Maghrib when there are two suns.
