>>And it seemed to me that certain aspects of Judaism would
>>appeal to the quarian mindset. They know, more than most other
>>peoples, the importance of keeping kosher, for instance. And there's
>>the whole promised-land thing.
>>
>The fact that we both like debating things probably didn't hurt either
>:) But yes, when I read it originally while I cracked up right away,
>I think my first real thought on the matter was that it felt very
>reasonable from what I've gleaned about quarian society, and not
>forced. I just hope they end up following one of the more reasonable
>variants and not one that looks to find ways to make the rules even
>more stringent and unreasonable just because they can...Seems unlikely. Quarians are a very practical people - they have to be, it's the only way they can survive.
It occurred to me, as I was mulling the matter over earlier, that there's another point of commonality that was probably the hook that led quite a few of the earliest browsing quarians to the reference materials on Judaism in the first place. In fact, now that quasi-Judaism has taken hold in a corner of quarian culture, I expect the quarian modification of the catchphrase in question has spread to some of the non-Jewish parts of the Flotilla as well, such that the "recapture the homeworld" supporters now are in the habit of saying to each other, "Next year on Rannoch!"
--G.
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