Shows that I've Been Cataloging For Too Long

[debka_notion]

I just started wondering what the Burned Over District and Israel/the Middle East had in common that made them both the origin points for so many religions.

And then it turned into a futuristic daydream (or maybe a distopian one?) about a bunch of future major world religions all claiming upstate New York as their holy land, etc... And then I laughed- it just seems so improbable. But then, I've never been to Israel, so I oughtn't talk.

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[arib.livejournal.com]

Burned Over District?

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

err, district might not be the right last word. Might be burned over region. Aka that area of Upstate New York that was "burned over" by a gizillion religious revivals, cults/new religions, etc. For example, Joseph Smith (as far as I remember it) started Mormonism at the very first in Rochester, before he got kicked out.

[belu.livejournal.com]

Might be tough. I think most religion there thinks of the Holy Land as being the Holy Land. That'd be something tough to change. I mean, it's been how long, and how many religions later, and Jerusalem's still holy?

But if you ever get disillusioned with God, and want to take a turn at being worshipped yourself, then You might be able to convince people that Rochester's as holy as, say, Bethlehem. But I still think that there'd be a Jerusalem back in there still doing its big whole being holy thing.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

My thought was more that it would be an additional center of holiness (whatever that qualifies as), rather than a substitute. Either that or in some post-cataclysmic future where the entire middle east has sunk under the dunes, or whatever.