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Originally Posted by bfisher
I thought it was fairly plausable - organized religions have been fairly effective in the past in supressing progress. A regigious monopoly would be even more able to do that where it had an absolute monopoly on education.
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Yep, but that was with a basically illiterate peasant based society.
The Safehold society is generally at least semi-literate, and they've clearly rediscovered progress several times in the past (The destruction, laser or was it nukes of the rebel cities whilst the orignal crew were still alive for example), but this was shoved back again
The way I see it, they've got the tools and most of the knowledge, and it really shouldn't take long for progress to reach critical mass.