I haven't seen the Bajoran religion as being very new-age-mentality-y, but I might've missed something. It *is* a big part of the series, but I always figure it makes a nice change from seeing advanced groups with no religion and seeing people who do have religion being consistently described as illogical and/or primitive.
And in general, when a group has some sort of religious dogma, it's always to hone in on how we are much more civilised now. Yes, religion has been responsible for a lot of bad things, but why every religious mention among a somewhat advanced civilisation is teh evil, I don't know. Religion makes them homophobic. Religion makes them racist. Religion makes them likely to kill one another or themselves. Never religion makes them kind, charitable, and inordinately fond of beetles.
Hm. It's been a while since I've watched any Star Trek, actually. I need to remedy that soon, watch some re-runs.
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Date: 2005-07-03 08:49 pm (UTC)I haven't seen the Bajoran religion as being very new-age-mentality-y, but I might've missed something. It *is* a big part of the series, but I always figure it makes a nice change from seeing advanced groups with no religion and seeing people who do have religion being consistently described as illogical and/or primitive.
And in general, when a group has some sort of religious dogma, it's always to hone in on how we are much more civilised now. Yes, religion has been responsible for a lot of bad things, but why every religious mention among a somewhat advanced civilisation is teh evil, I don't know. Religion makes them homophobic. Religion makes them racist. Religion makes them likely to kill one another or themselves. Never religion makes them kind, charitable, and inordinately fond of beetles.
Hm. It's been a while since I've watched any Star Trek, actually. I need to remedy that soon, watch some re-runs.