You’re not addressing idiots Tannia, I think everyone here, including the Amarrians can see such a blatantly simple “problem.”
What you seem to fail to understand completely is that the Amarrians have had first hand evidence for God for thousands upon thousands of years. Not only do they have evidence for whatever God is, those of us who are paying attention to whatever the hell the Amarrians are doing have evidence for whatever God is.
Whether or not it’s what the Amarrians have determined it is (which varies from city to city, planet to planet and constellation to constellation in myriad ways…) is besides the point.
This simple grunt and point double action of condemning the Amarrians for having old-fashioned “outdated” beliefs isn’t helping anyone and in the end, it’s actually fairly primitive thinking in and of itself. They reached the stars before us, they have the nicest piece of real estate in the cluster, they have a culture that has stood the test of time. The Jovians, who I actually have some authority to speak on, took up many of the same beliefs the anti-Amarrians hold today - they adhered to science alone, fact, even abandoning dialecticism to a point and look where it got them. The dead and dying is not something I want to become…
Maybe God doesn’t exist, but the mere act of believing in one God uniting a people seems to trigger a hidden strength far beyond mere camaraderie and determination. I’d like to know what it is. The Amarrians even have a saying about it:
“Surround yourself with the faithful, Stand together, for there is no strength like it under the heavens.”
What this informs us is that the Amarrians do not merely think this is a good idea to stick together, they think there is something magical taking place behind the scenes. Maybe this is a physics we just don’t understand, and maybe a belief in a common great god who is specifically almighty (not merely a tribal god who controls one or another aspect of universe, as these seem to fail consistently) is the key to unlocking this hidden potential of Man. This factor of being almighty is the one thing about God every Amarrian seems to agree upon…
I am not interested in seeing a one-god universe, unless that God is somehow intimately connected with the diversity of Mankind. Any God that is separate from humans would be a remarkably boring God and a society that would ultimately lead to all kinds of brutality as we have seen with the Amarrians. I am interested in better ideas of God and what God might ultimately turn out to be, and that’s something no one is really looking at.