{"id":17061,"date":"2013-08-26T08:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=17061"},"modified":"2013-08-26T08:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:26:40","slug":"leap-of-android-and-klingon-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/08\/leap-of-android-and-klingon-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Leap of (Android and Klingon) Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

John Morehead posted<\/a> yesterday on the treatment of religion in Star Trek, in particular a couple of episodes from\u00a0The Next Generation<\/em>. He writes at the end of his post:<\/p>\n

\"\"What I find of interest is that one of the most popular and enduring of science fiction franchises interacted with religion, and did so in the way that it did, eschewing religion in one sense, and yet retaining its value in another. It remains to be seen whether\u00a0Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0will engage religion again in the future, but as I have noted previously, although it has skeptical and hostile stances toward religion, it has ironically become something of a\u00a0religion<\/a>\u00a0itself among its\u00a0fandom<\/a>, through its optimistic humanism, the ethic of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination, and attendance at conventions functioning as religious\u00a0pilgrimage<\/a>\u00a0for the faithful. Hopefully the Great Bird of the Galaxy would not protest too much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click through<\/a> to read the whole thing and find out how he got there. To entice you, here is a video clip embedded in the blog post:<\/p>\n