THE INTERSTELLAR CRUSADERS
TAHMETIANITY
Tahmetianity is considered by many to be a scam (more so than
organized religion in general)--it was founded by the
appearance of the same "prophet" at the same time on five
different worlds, a miracle confirmed years later (relativistic
travel only, and only light-speed messages could be sent at
the time). This "miracle" caused a mass movement, a religion
that gained the adherence of billions of people and seriously
weakened the remnants of old-line Christianity and Islam (the "prophet" claimed to be the messenger of Jehovah/Allah) as well as nearly eliminating the unified and tolerant One-God religion of the FSA, Mondecumen, due to mass conversions to the newer, more vital faith. On several worlds the Tahmetian-controlled governments persecuted and even massacred believers in other types of religions, including Etodists, Undyoists, Venpredessi (a movement of ancestor-worshippers), militant Humanists, various neopagans and even Tahmetian heretic groups. The Undyoists claimed that Tahmetianity was an elaborate scam, its founders using some secret FTL technology to organize it and later
claim power. (According to the Undyoists the "prophet" was five clones
designed to look similar, based on an
old sequence from the Human Genome Diversity project of 2016
available to all five worlds).
The Tahmetian religion was thoroughly discredited by the
efforts of Undyoist refugees in outlying worlds (and other
reports of atrocities) and eventually the governments of
the five worlds in question fell into disunion, attacking
each other. One of the prophets was murdered by an antitheist
resistance movement only to reappear alive a week later.
The influence of AIs on the whole incident is debated (such
AIs would be guilty of crimes against humanity). There are
still hardcore followers of the faith, and they really really
hate Undyoists.
The total number of practicing Tahmetians at the faith's peak reached 4.6 billion.
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