Why is Sci Fi so Religious?

Science Fiction is actually a surprisingly religious genre and I prove it... but why is it so religious?

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00:00 Opening: Examples of Religion in Sci-fi
1:56 Intro: True nature of Sci-fi as Mystical
9:34 Reason and Faith (Cosmic Horror, Religious Robots)
26:42 AI Stories Need Biblical Symbolism
49:31 Religion as Apex of Evolution
1:02:06 Space Crusade Trope in Sci-Fi, Secular Hypocrisy.

Credits:

Sources: (I may have forgotten some especially for videos but will try to amend it if I do.)

War makes people religious:

Combat veterans find God:

Religion and cheating behaviour:

Effect on supernatural priming on cheating behaviour:

Religious PRACTICE and ritual makes people more moral: (Not simply identifying with the creed)

Religious practice helps adolescents in their grades:

Religion boosts health:

Athletes are more religious:

Religion and happiness:

Believers less likely to engage in substance abuse:

Videos featured:

Dawkins:

Ian Hutchinson:

Niel Degrasse Tyson:

Elon Musk:

Ray Kurzweil:

Sabine:

Last Church animation:

9 Billion Names of God short film:

Christopher Hitchens:

My Video on Star Trek vs Dune:

[varvarith]

The most depressing thing about space empire fantasy is that even in vast empty space there is nowhere to get away from taxes.

[Taipei_]

Religion is never going to go away, but people saying that the demise of religion is just around the corner probably never will either.

[suburbanboi]

It’s funny how the Simulation theory is just God with extra steps

[Romashka_Sov]

"Simulation hypothesis is a Theism for nerds" is the best explanation of the concept i heard

[Mornathel]

I love Warhammer 40k because while being hilarious and dark it does take a lot of deeper ideas and blows them up so big that you can explore so many different themes. As a fellow Christian, albeit a Protestant I love your content and I’d love to be able to have a conversation with you for hours because you have insights.

[knightofarnor]

Saint Paul: "Don't be racist."
Lovecraft:
Ok, that was great 😂

[nuclearsynapse]

"Science gives man power over nature, but God gives man power over himself"
will be appropriating this raw ass line for general use

[reffa]

In the original Halo series (combat evolved- Reach), it was hinted at that humans interpreted the events of pre-human history through bible scripture. Thats why you have things like the Flood, and The Ark that have similar names and functions as their biblical counterparts.

[rainick]

"Religion is not inherently violent, politics is"

As an atheist, I could not agree more.

[thattimestampguy]

Broad: Narrative
Specific: Sci-Fi Narrative 14:54
• Space Exploration 🚀
• Galactic Empires 🌎🪐👑
• Mythical Beings
_religious language and symbolism_ 🙏🏼

3:29 Space Crusaders 🚀⚔️
4:30 Divine God
5:22 Ascension of Man to a Higher Plane of Existence
7:22 Holy War IN SPACE

8:09 _“Anything so profoundly connected to our sense of self is a topic that requires sensible and sober discussion.”_

*Cosmic Horror*
10:18 Man’s Insignificance
11:25 Phobia of God
• Dagon
• The Dunwitch Horror
• The Reanimator by Herbert West
• The Necronomicon by a middle eastern man
The evil clergy man
15:38 Cosmic Hive-mind

16:50 Reason + Faith [Emperor and Priest]
Axioms are inevitable.

19:09 Infinite God
21:30 Absurd Presupposition —> Absurd Conclusion. “The world was made for no reason.” No reason to believe No reason.

22:34 Computers 💻 Modeled After Man 👨🏼

24:37 Atheist explanation of Reason without God
• Infinite Chain
• Big Bang
• Multiverse [which cannot be tested to be proven true or false] 25:52
Citation: Francis Bacon’s essay on Atheism

27:25 AI Stories
• Rebellion

29:23 Avatar - Digital manifestation
Patterns of Information.
Word, Code.
33:45 Simulation = Creationism for computer science venerators

35:47 Made In The Image of God
37:01 Can’t stop ourselves.

37:56 Issac Asimov, a left-leaning, Marxist influenced, atheist.

39:19 Soul. “Everyone believes in the sacredness of Consciousness.”

41:34 Creative, Beautiful, Loving. Exponentially.

44:47 Pseudoscience & pseudoreligion

46:43 Know Your Limits.
(Live a life you wish to see reflected in other people.)

49:33 _Dune_, _Warhammer40K_
51:31 _The High Crusade_

53:17 Knowledge is Power. God is more powerful than can be known fully by Man.
Science: Power over Nature
Religion: Power over Self
Advantage in Competition, High Stress Circumstances.

55:23 _Brave New World_ agony of lacking Spiritual Health.

Vitality
Stability
Perseverance

59:37 USA 🇺🇸

*Space Crusade*
1:02:04 Space Opera
The Senate & The Jedi
Star Gate
Halo

1:04:47 Fanatic Violence is real.

1:08:36 The South Park Otter 🦦
1:10:26 Superiority ⭕️
1:11:30 The Perpetual Paradigm, inevitable pattern.

1:13:32 Actions matter if they lead to different outcomes.

1:14:29 Progess; Settling into roots for balance, while marching forward (through life) Progress through Tradition.

1:15:15 Religare- Connecting, to connect.
What do you choose to connect to?

[GFIDavid]

"Mother hugger, THAT is Satan, and THAT'S just Hell." Best line I've ever heard

[pincopallino]

Hey, never left a comment on on of your videos before, just wanted to let you know that despite not being religious anymore myself and having gone through a pretty bad fedora tipping atheist stage in my teenage years, nowadays I'm still not sure if Religion is just not for me, or if i'm just not mature enough yet for Religion, but I'm definitely much mroe respectful of anyone with faith. I just love sitting down on a weekend with a nice cigar and just absorbing your thoughts on media.

It really is nourishment for the mind and soul. This video in particular has given me some nice literature reccomendations i will definitely check out sometime in the, hopefully, near future.
Love your content, I hope you'll keep enjoying and continue making it, as there is a definite lack of nuanced viewpoints everywhere.

The line "Science gives us power over nature, while religion gives us power over ourselves" is damn powerful, I'm too much of a pleb to know if a quote from someone or something you came up with yourself, but regardless it was "lit" as contemporary slang would put it

[sdastoryteller]

"As we Reflect God, Ai will reflect us." I'm going to ponder on that for a while! love this video dude!

[srichael]

Personally I don't believe that going into space would cause humanity to go atheist like how it is shown in Star Trek. If anything, becoming it would reinforce the devotion.

What is more wonderful and awesome for a believer who finally travels the space, sees the stars up close and walk the worlds that the Creator has wrought?

One of Dune's themes is that humanity will always have religious impulses. One can only redirect or use those impulses not erase it.

[honilock]

"Space crusades are only allowed with religious intent because it would look cooler" - Pilgims Pass, 2023

[legodavid]

I have no idea how this video managed to simultaneously be an excellent analysis of how religion is portrayed in Sci-Fi stories while also being a very strong and well articulated critique of atheism, but you somehow managed it. One of the most brilliant video essays I have seen on YouTube in a while!

[scollin]

Lovecraft, as a man, is an incredibly sad story, really. Dude was so fucked in the head that the only way to voice it was through his stories, and even then it couldn’t keep him from driving away even his own family. To me, however, the saddest thing is that in his later years he seemed to be working on it according to some letters he wrote to a family member before he died

(according to memory, don’t quote me pls)

[metroidman]

Enlightenment 2: Electric Boogaloo is literally Humanity rediscovering what we lost with the first Enlightenment.
As much as I hate Clown World, there's a real giddiness I feel that I get to be part of the first time Humans truly marry Modern Reason with Ancient Faith in a way that's sure to lead us to a prosperous future.

Let's just hope that AI and Nukes don't interrupt us.

[auraguard]

C.S. Lewis's take was "if everything is random and arbitrary in origin, then so is the conclusion that everything is random and arbitrary in origin, and thus I may ignore it"; or, in other words, you need a starting point that means something.

[Divinemakyr]

It's genuinely crazy that two groups of people who think the other is going to infinite torture can just live next to each other and be chilling.