...did not fair as well, but it's distributed nature allowed it to survive in respectable numbers. The institutions largely crumbled, but the theology and the veneration of the Christian Bible remained. Much of the petty theological divisions that had separate Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, and the dozens of others became irrelevant in the face of the fall, and that attitude contributed greatly Protestantisms survival. While there are one or two small Protestant dominated habs, most Protestants have become self-appointed missionaries. They are also some of the only people free to travel in and out of the Jovian system, helping to moderate the Jovian relationship to the rest of the system. Surprisingly few missionaries are requested by the Jovians to act as spies and most of the few who do decline. Protestants also exist on Extropia - a place that has helped them revitalize the long forgotten "Protestant Work Ethic." Most Protestants dislike the libertarian morals but have come to accept things like the legality of drugs, if not prostitution. Interestingly, re-sleeving technology has all but destroyed the Protestant stance against homosexuality (not so for Catholics). Titan bears a small but noticeable fraction of Protestants. Many Protestants who chose to make Titan their home have pointed to the socialist nature of the Apostles in the book of Acts or Jesus's teaching about not worrying about "what you shall eat or where you shall sleep" as explicit endorsements of technosocialism. Much to the consternation of both Titan and Jovian officials, Protestants living in the two states attempt to stay in contact with each other as much as possible. In spite of, or perhaps in response to, the antagonism between Titan and the JJ, their Protestant members see a special kinships between each other (that is, Protestants on Titan with Protestants in the JJ). Both groups make a spectacle of praying for peace between the two groups - and the Protestants in the Jovian system make an especially big deal of it. Perhaps most surprising are the Protestants among the Anarchists. While not as popular as Neo-Buddhism, the distributed nature of Protestantism - both in terms of structure and theology, with each disciple assumed to have his or her own direct line to God, makes it far more appealing to Anarchists than Catholicism. These Protestants are the ones most likely to be scientifically minded, and tend to believe that the advancement of Science and Technology are key elements of God's Will, in addition to ethical treatment of others as exemplified in the Golden Rule.

The basic idea here is that Protestantism has done an about-face. While once it was damn-near a fractal in terms of how many divisions and splinter groups it had, they now simply define themselves as Protestant or in some cases, Evangelicals or Evangelical Christians. That said, the Protestants on Titan [i]would[/i] be heavily influenced by Lutheran orthodoxy and theology, but most Protestants have at this point decided to focus less on what makes them different from others within the context of greater Protestantism. This is a matter of survival. That said, there probably [i]would[/i] be an underlying memetic structure developing to contain and organize the different theologies under one umbrella. Calvinism vs Arminianism would be a distinction that almost certainly would have survived (with most Arminians being in the Outer System while the center of Calvinism would be in the Jovian system).

Living here is even weirder than it looks from the outside. As a formerly religious person living in the south-east united states I can have a very unique perspective on religions and religious institutions. Growing up deeply indoctrinated by conservative protestant christianity I got to see what it was like from the inside. And I can tell you, every last one of them is an Olympic Gold Medalist when it comes to Mental Gymnastics. This is neither a complement nor an insult. In fact it is the reason why I believe it would survive the Fall (albeit in a diminished capacity). Religions are subject to evolution. In particular, even the most deeply held religious doctrines are effectively "ablative memes" that protect the "core memes" from harm by virtue of their disposability and replaceability. For instance, you're not going to find the Intelligent Design crowd or the Young Earth people in EP (except perhaps in isolated cult-like compounds). But as religions lost their hold over society it's my opinion that they would become more flexible when faced with "memetic death". In particular, it will be Protestants who are most changed by the fall (as compared to Catholics and Jews) and who will have to find ways to benefit society, and the major benefit to society that they have to offer at this point is stabilization of a highly tense region.