Re: Hard Sci-fi?

> >> Overall throughout history it seems to have a neutral impact, or even
> > > slightly positive by encouraging scholar****p, literacy, etc.
>
> > It depends on compared with -what- I think. Compared with even more
> > primitive religion and little to no organization at all, probably
true.
> > Compared to a modern secular state, no way.
>
> "Modern secular states" include such scientific wonders as North Korea
and
> Cuba.

I would say North Kore and Cuba are very much religious states. They
wor****p Marx, Lenin and their living acolytes (Kim Jong Il and Fidel
Castro)