Here is what promises to be a hot topic. It there a God gods, Goddess, somewhere out there?

Let's see what the crew thinks....



Aeryn, like the rest of the Peace Keepers that she was once a part of, is an atheist. That is, for those who don't know the term, someone who does not believe in a god or afterlife. In life there is Duty and science. In death, there is oblivion.

True, oblivion is one of the scariest of concepts for a being that can percieve their own existance. That we will one day not exist, yet it is not so scary if we are brought up thinking that.

John, seems to have a Christian upbringing, and yet, is himself, agnostic. That is, he is not quite sure if there is nothing, but certainly doesn't follow normal religious tenants.

Here is where we can get into a massive debate about morality. Some can say that there is no morality without a higher power showing it to us. Well... that is just plain dren. John is a good person. That is an intrinsic part of his being, he can't help being a good person, it is just who he is. But it is also his choice to be a good person. He chooses, of his own free will (now there's another concept that I just wont touch right now) to do the right thing. And as for Aeryn, you know, the atheist, has become a very good person. This is because she too has a caring nature, and she fights out of a sense of duty to the ones she loves to do the right thing. Religion is not needed to be good. Yeah, yeah, the Creator made them that way and all, but that again is a whole other topic that I am not getting into in this post.

Chiana... Unfortuneately we do not know enough about her as of yet to tell her veiws on religion and the after life. She comes from a highly technologically advanced society that more than values conformity. The technology may mean less religious beliefs for the Nebari, but the conformity may mean more... there is no absolute way to tell at this time as there are far too many missing pieces.

Chiana herself is worldly, and therefore secular, and therefore less likely to be religious herself. In addition, her ability to control her own fate, and make a significant impact on the world around her, tends to indicate a lack of religious need. (I will get back to that point shortly)

So it would seem that Chiana herself is secular, but we do not know for sure.

D'Argo; we know that Luxans have rituals, and rituals do not necacarily indicate religion, but can replace it as a need within people. However, in the season two premere "Mind the Baby" D'Argo asks John "Am I dead?!" after coming out of his coma. This implies, in the least, that there is some question of the afterlife addressed by D'Argo, if not by Luxan race as a whole. Yes, there is a whole Norse, Celt, Pict theme that seems to be running for the warrior race of Luxans, but that does not mean they share the same religious beliefs of those people, yet, at the same time it provides a clue. A religion for a warrior people. We will have to see more to draw better conclusions.

Rygel; most certainly has religion, at least for belief in an after life. The after life for the Dominar has been brought up many times, so we know that religion has been taught to Rygel. There are death rights as well, that we have seen his Frogginess preform over the comatose body of John, before he stopped and proceeded to take his things.

In the very least, fear of oblivion keeps Rygel believing.

Zhaan... ah... now we come to the most religious character. A priest. Delvians, with their incredibly long, by human standards, lives allow them to spend hundreds of years on matters of the spirit. As they have psychic powers, at least that can be developed over time, they have proof to many of their claims. They have more rituals than we can count, prayers and meditations of equal complexity and number.

But now can get to open the explosives and prepare to be fired upon......

Why is Zhaan religious?

She is overly sensitive, and she has lost control. Everything bad that happens draws a tear from that woman's eye, feeling the pain of the universe. That is one way to break a person's (even the strongest person) will. It is very taxing to care for everything and feel every tragedy. (Trust me, I know that all too well.) Add that to the fact that she had lost all that had become important to her (her family) coupled with her inability to do dren about it... and you have someone who is gonna be looking for something in a hurry.

Religion. She, as Aeryn beautifully put it, "Blissed out". Not being able to deal with the outward world, and the outside world destroying her, she turned inward, emersing herself in LOVE and meditations, blocking out all that had hurt her so badly. Including her inability to do anything about it. In short, she ran.

This is what many people do. (Yup, here comes the attacks) The world is a difficult place to live in and when you keep losing despite your best efforts, when every time you try, life still kicks your eemah, when it hurts to be alive, that is when many people find God, religion, whatever...

People need to believe that life isn't pointless, that there is some plan to this chaos, that there is a reason for this suffering, that when we die there is reward, for there is none here, that the people I loved and lost are in a better place... for ALL these reason's and many more, people become religious.

In this case, that is what Zhaan did.



And in the words of the great Denis Miller "Of course that's just my opinon, I could be wrong..."



Now, if any of you are enraged by what I said, I'm sorry, but these are my beliefs and what I perceive.

If you want to argue, please do so, but leave out the ad hominim arguments, that is, don't call me a "Godless moron" and the like. Make your point's and back them up with proofs. I am more than willing to debate and defend my point of veiw.

And just so you know, I am myself an agnostic. I lean tword atheism, but I cannot prove that nothing spiritual actually does not exist. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. At the same time, extrordiary claims require extraordianary proofs.



I am Sci-Fi.

Matthew