Comparison Of Herbert's "Dune" And Asimov's "Foundation Series": Effects Of Technology And Belief Systems On The Individual

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Religion is the main idea in the book Dune. The author states the
different types of religions that come to pass since the beginning of this
age. Before the coming of Muad'Dib (a savior), the desert people on the
planet of Arrakis practiced a religion whose roots came from an
undetermined source. Many scholars have traced the extensive borrowing of
this religion from other religions. Many people were confused to find that
so many ideas in one religion easily reflected another. From this confusion,
the people of Arrakis formed a committee known as the Orange Catholic
Liturgical Church. This church was the first to introduce a type of
religious belief in which there was one god, and the book of revelation was
known as the Orange Catholic Bible. After this church, came the Bene
Gesserit, who privately denied that their order was a religious order, but
in fact, all of their teachings and beliefs were quite religious. Following
this religious order, came an age of agnostic rule. In ...

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had their own ideas of creation.
The religious faiths have the feeling that the sacred is touched by anarchy
from the outer dark, and this outer dark is space. There was never a clear
decision on religious matters after space travel was introduced because the
individual always had doubts as to the authenticity of the revelation.
During this period of space travel, high bishops of the Orange Catholic
Bible reinterpreted, Gods word from Genesis and stated it as "Increase and
multiply, and fill the universe, and subdue it and rule over all manner of
strange beasts and living creatures in the infinite airs, on the infinite
earths and beneath them."

As technology evolved on Arrakis, so ...

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