Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Last night Karen and I watched “Stargate: The Ark of Truth”, this was the first time I really noticed how much religion plays a part in Sci-fi. Most of the bad guys in Stargate are false Gods. But they have people worship them and they have books to live by. The Gauld were more hands on but the Ori were more inline with the religions in the world today. They had their holy book and if you didn’t worship you would spend eternity in hell fire. Very original.
I think what amazes me most is how I watched this show for 10 years and never thought about it’s relationship to real religion. Now it seems almost comical. The crazy stuff they come up with isn’t any less crazy than the real stuff. Have you seen the drama with Scientology.
Even the robots in Battlestar Gallactica “Praise the Gods.”
I wonder if almost all Sci-fi writers are atheists? One of my favorite Sci-fi writers, Joss Whedon, is an atheist. He produced the awesome TV series Buffy and Firefly.
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March 19th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Dude,
You just figured out that Stargate had strong religious undertones?
Of course, I’m a weirdo who has every SG-1 episode.
Anyway, yes, much sci-fi pokes fun, or condemns religion. If you read much sci-fi you’ll find more of that than on TV or in movies.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
It’s not that I never noticed the religion in sci-fi, it’s that I never related it to real religion. Which turns out to be fake as well, so there you go.
I’m a huge sci-fi fan and it’s amazing how much stuff I must have seen before and never gave it any thought.