Everyone on BSG is so... religious

[conuly]

It's a nice change from Star Trek, where religion is a sign of backwardness, and the only people with warp drive and religion are either Klingons (where they used to be evil, and anyway that's not really a religion, it lacks a god) or Bajorans (who aren't exactly doing well in the galaxy, and anyway their gods happen to actually exist, and are affectionately named "wormhole aliens" by everyone else).

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[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

This isn't sci-fi related, but I had some similar thoughts about "Dawson's Creek" at one time. There was an older character (someone's grandmother) who was deeply Christian, and it affected almost everything she did, which seemed realistic for someone who had turned to faith for comfort in a time of hardship (her husband had recently died). It significantly affected her relationship with her granddaughter in interesting ways. We even saw (in the second season) her faith being challenged by her encounter with a very nice gay young man, and her faith growing and expanding to the "judge not lest ye be judged" viewpoint rather than her original "homosexuality is a sin against God" viewpoint.

I am not Christian and not religious (in fact, I'm more of a philosophical Buddhist), but I really appreciated how they portrayed this profoundly religious character and the role that religion played in her life, how it interacted with events and people she encountered, etc. I was deeply disappointed when they later completely abandoned the character's religion as if it had never existed. Sigh.