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Fantastic Religious Weirdness

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Fantastic Religious Weirdness	comment	The tenets of a real-world religion can interact... oddly with fantasy or futuristic settings. In the simplest form of this trope, the setting makes religiously forbidden things harder to avoid, or mandatory things harder to do. Maybe it's impossible for Jewish vampires to keep kosher without starving.note This is probably true unless they can live on fish blood, which is permitted according to the Talmud. However, Pikuach nefesh refers to a concept in Jewish religious law where certain prohibited behaviors are permissible if they preserve a life. Ergo, a vampire would be allowed to consume non-kosher blood because it was required for their survival, so long as no one was murdered to get the blood... Although at least one rabbi, asked the question, replied that he didn't think pikuach nefesh would apply to the undead, as it specifically refers to the preservation of life. On the other hand, in old Hebrew folklore the violation of kosher rules is the whole point of vampiric existence, so the question is moot. A group of Muslims on a Generation Ship is likely to have trouble making a pilgrimage to Mecca.note While Muslims are only required to make a pilgrimage to Mecca if they are capable of doing so, don't expect this distinction to be brought up in fiction because that takes away the drama. (It's also possible in principle for a setting to make religion easier,note For instance, a planet with an orbital period of 354.37 Earth days, were it to exist, would synchronize with the Islamic lunar calendar, potentially making fasting during Ramadan much easier â€” particularly if it falls in local winter in the planet's habitable regions. Another example is that many rabbis say that in vitro meat â€” even if it is derived from pig cells â€” is kosher. but that's less likely to happen as it fails to follow the Rule of Drama, although it might be used for world-building or a one-off gagnote Like having a Hindu Brahmin chowing down on a lab-grown hamburger or a Jewish family arguing whether it's OK to have a lab-grown ham for Shabbat dinner.) There can also be interactions between religion and fantasy that are more complex. The discovery of fantastic elements can lead to crises of faith (or it may not, for no apparent reason), or conversely make the elements of that faith more relevant.note If you find that you've become a vampire/werewolf, make friends with a rabbi immediately. And that's not even getting into the situations where the approach to the religion is part of what makes the setting fantastical... This can be Truth in Television. Conferences of real Muslims have grappled with the question of how to pray toward Mecca five times a day while orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes. And just how do you determine when Shabbat begins and ends in places that experience polar night and midnight sun? For that matter, can the faithful be expected to fast from sunup to sundown in such locations?note Muslims in polar communities have the choice of keeping to the local schedule or following the sunrise and sunset times of Mecca during Ramadan. Some muftis have also opined that Muslims can fast for an arbitrary 12-hour period, like 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.; this solution is common in Britain. Do particular transgenic foods meet Islam's dietary laws? And now that lab-grown meat is just over the horizon, would a beef burger grown in a petri dish be kosher (which demands meat be slaughtered a particular way)? Or acceptable to Hindus (who don't eat beef)? Or Jains (who regard slaughtering animals as always wrong)? Interestingly, in post-communist Poland, exploration of this sort of thing has developed into a real SF genre, called clerical fiction. Overlaps with Religious Vampire and Religious Robot. Sister Trope to Fantastic Legal Weirdness, where speculative fiction elements interact strangely with the legal system.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_11d0af1	comment	His Dark Materials and its prequel series The Book of Dust feature Christianity through a vast Multiverse and how it adapts to world-specific circumstances. For example, in Lyra's world people's souls manifest outwards as animal spirits called daemons. The church decides to cut children's daemons out, leaving them mindless husks.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Kyouko Sakura grew up in a Christian family (what little we see of it uses a lot of Catholic imagery, but it's vague exactly what branch of Christianity it was), and made her contract with Kyubey so that people would listen to her preacher father's teachings (his ideas had been considered too radical by the populace and they were living in poverty as a result). Kyouko took to her role as a Magical Girl with the conviction that fighting Witches would help make the world a better place, while her father also used his teachings to help humanity. When her father learned of her wish, he accused her of being a witch who used her magic to tempt and deceive the populace. The knowledge that magic was what made people join his church instead of their own free will drove him to kill Kyouko's mom and sister, and then himself. The spin-off manga Puella Magi Tart Magica feaures Joan of Arc herself as the title Magical Girl. Naturally, it has fun with this trope. Joan/Tart believes that Kyubey is an angel (and Kyubey comments that people have called him an Angel in the past), and becomes a Magical Girl to help save France. Kyubey, meanwhile, alludes to how the Bible tells followers to not allow witches to live, which Tart sees as justification to keep fighting Witches. This is how Kyubey keeps Tart in line as a Magical Girl when she learns that Witches in the setting are Magical Girls who fell to despair, something she learned earlier than Madoka and the cast of the parent series.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_13364e68	comment	In Castle Federation, there is a planet which evolved a sect of Christianity in which women chose their husband as their God-given right and that choice is formalized by the woman having sex with the man. It causes some problems when it clashes with more liberated mindsets.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_13605458	comment	Rory Mercury provokes a lot of religious debate in Gate. As a bona fide living demigoddess whose deity is capable of outright miracles, the question becomes where are the Apostles of all Terran religions?
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_14cf013a	comment	In the Buffy episode "Passions", Willow does a ritual to prevent Angelus from entering her home:
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor: In one issue, Thor saves the life of a Christian priest and assures him that although he (Thor) is real, so is a god superior to Thor whom the Thunder God explicitly identifies as the Christian God. (It's never made clear which sect the priest is, nor is the question of Jesus addressed.)
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_1a8d488a	comment	Vampires in Munchkin Bites can wear "The Yarmulke of Religious Obfuscation", which grants bonuses when fighting Meddling Clerics or Vampire Hunters.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_238a4c21	comment	The Talmud makes mention of people who would create an animal Golem and eat it, presumably without the need for ritual slaughter. One hopes that, unlike the more famous one, this one wasn't made of clay.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: Flag in Exile mentions that the Manticoran military doesn't have a Chaplains' Corps because of the sheer diversity of belief systems. Manticoran warships do have nondenominational chapels aboard but any services are done by lay leaders. This is contrasted with the Grayson Space Navy: the Graysons are mostly members of a Christian offshoot sect called the Church of Humanity Unchained (akin to fundamentalist Mormons with bits of conservative Islam for flavor) and their ships do carry chaplains. When women were allowed to enlist in the GSN due to manpower needs after Grayson allied with Manticore, they were only allowed to serve on the biggest ships because only superdreadnoughts had room for separate men's and women's quarters.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_24b673e7	comment	Earth's Alien History has numerous examples of the intermingling of a great many different species causing alterations and changes in preexisting religions: Surakan Buddhism is, as the name suggests, a philosophical school that bridges elements from Buddhist and Vulcan teachings. The Church of the Divine Image is a Christian offshoot that believes God's salvation of humanity also applies to aliens â€” but only Human Aliens or, at a stretch, Humanoid ones, since they're the only ones made in God's image. Certain aspects of the Race's culture expand their worship of their Emperor (and past Emperors) to include veneration of certain important other figures from their history, who are granted the saint-like title of "Most Loyal." By the 23rd century, the most popular religion in TeTO space are the Church of the Cosmic Spirit, a dualistic faith that believes in a Spirit of Light responsible for all good in the universe, and an opposing Spirit of Darkness responsible for all evil, with major important and influential historical figures of all species believed to be avatars of one or the other. Reincarnation is also a major aspect as well. Mormonism becomes the largest Christian denomination after the chaos of the 20th century causes Catholicism to collapse and people turn to the LDS Church due to Salt Lake City being the only Christian religious center that doesn't get damaged by any of the alien invasions. It also does surprisingly well for itself among other species, being shown to be quite popular with the Race, quarians, and asari, among others. Though they do have to make adjustments to the faith depending on the quirks of other species' values and biologies â€” for example, as the LDS Church prohibits same-sex marriages, and asari are all physically female (and the Church doesn't want to forbid asari members from marrying in their own species), asari converts have to declare themselves "officially" male or female so that their marriages aren't technically same-sex. Cosmism eventually fully replaces traditional religion in the USSR and other communist states (and becomes popular with post-Praxis Klingons), evolving into a form that states that people should strive to become Sufficiently Advanced Aliens like others present in this universe. The Gemini worship Xerneas, and the other Legendary Pokemon by extension, due to Xerneas' Heroic Sacrifice creating them from the Turian/Krogan hybrid Brute husks created by the Reapers. One Gemini, Emile, is shown at one point getting into a brief religious debate with Dr. McCoy (here a devout Mormon) over the logic of worshipping an abstract being when Physical Gods are present.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_26ef42e7	comment	In Kevin & Kell, everyone sees Jesus as their own species.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_286b0fc9	comment	In a Castle Falkenstein article in Pyramid magazine, "Concerning the Djinn", Phil Masters briefly looks at what it means to be a powerful spirit being and a devout Muslim, and the same ideas were later re-used in the same author's GURPS Castle Falkenstein: The Ottoman Empire. Essentially, the Djinn have their own mosques, hidden underground, because attending a human mosque is liable to be disruptive to proceedings (they generally turn invisible when making the hajj). Though funnily enough, these ideas all come more or less directly from genuine Muslim folklore. Non-Muslim Djinn are repelled by Muslim prayers. While this certainly applies to evil Djinn (except the powerful Ifrit, who revel in blasphemy) it doesn't only apply to them — it's compared to how some European Faeries are repelled by symbols of Christianity, regardless of their morality. The in-universe authors aren't sure if Christian symbols affect djinn since the underlying mechanisms of all this aren't understood.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_2a139e05	comment	The Orville: In "A Tale of Two Topas", Kelly briefly has to deal with an alien armorer who turned up to work naked due to a religious holiday, which both makes his coworker uncomfortable and violates uniform regulations. After a bit of back-and-forth on the subject, Kelly persuades him to at least put some pants on.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_2b113e02	comment	In The Mummy (1999), Beni, when confronted by the newly resurrected Imhotep, pulls out several holy symbols that he apparently wears on a chain around his neck — on the eminently practical grounds that one of them has to work — displaying each and saying a prayer in the appropriate language to try to ward him off. First, he pulls out a crucifix, then a Crescent, then a taijitu, and finally, a Star of David. Only the Star of David and a Hebrew prayer averts Beni's imminent demise — but only because Imhotep recognizes Hebrew as "the language of the slaves", and thinks Beni will be useful as a translator.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_2b60964a	comment	In Metro 2033, the question of "what does Jehovah say on the issue of headless mutants" is used as an Armor-Piercing Question against an obnoxious Jehovah's Witness.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_2fce14ae	comment	Wearing the Cape: Breakthroughs can have essentially any power, and since their powers are based on their own beliefs and reaction to their trauma, it's not particularly uncommon for those powers to be religiously themed. The Middle East got carved up by a new Caliphate when a terrorist became the "Sword of the Faith," a ten-foot-tall angel wielding a flaming sword. In most of the world, religious Breakthroughs are seen as no different from other delusional Breakthroughs, though in Japan most people have largely accepted that magic is real, and ancient kami roam the land once more (the government still insists they're just delusional). In the West, it's mentioned that the Catholic Church investigates any claim of a divine miracle very closely, as Breakthrough powers are not considered miracles but it's difficult to conclusively prove that one wasn't involved.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_3089da71	comment	This Alien Shore has an Encyclopedia Exposita selection from an apparently updated Bible that compares space travel to the tower of Babel. It states that man turned the skies "black with their arrogance", and that the mutation-triggering Hausman Drive was God's punishment, dividing humans by species as he did by language. Muslims are also required to visit Mecca at least once in their lives, even if they live on a planet that's light-years away. Most sects establish holy sites on their own planets for those who can't afford the trip, but traditionalists must visit Mecca itself, even if they have to sell themselves into Indentured Servitude. Because the traditionalists also can't be ruled by a nonbeliever, they live in their own area on the metroliner, with their own government and their own laws.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_31d8e7e8	comment	The Sparrow has Jesuit priests making First Contact on a planet near Alpha Centauri. Although many of their practices are tolerated (in some cases enthusiastically appreciated), the gentle Runa natives get very upset when anybody sings or eats meat; all Masses have to be spoken only, without hymns, and when somebody opens a can of spam the room they're in is evacuated and sealed off. At the very end of the story, you find out why.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_365e9759	comment	In A Wolf in the Soul, Holmes makes several attempts to explain Greg's lycanthropy in the context of Jewish mysticism. Dr. Rumu, with her Indian mysticism, oddly seems to have a more thorough grasp of exactly what is going on, but despite this, she is less able to provide a cure.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_39ed367b	comment	In Piecing Together the Ashes: Reconstructing the Old World Order, numerous new religions have popped up since the Deluge, while old ones have changed: The major post-Deluge branches of Christianity in America are the Reconstructionist Christians (who are the result of remaining Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and some Protestants mixing together) and the Southron Church of Christ (which combines numerous Protestant denominations together along with Confederate nostalgia). Lincolnism is a Christian denomination that views Lincoln and other American presidents as saints. Widdhism is a mixture of Wicca, Taoism, and Buddhism, with a bit of Star Wars mythology thrown in. Several religions are based on misremembered bits of pre-Deluge pop culture â€” Disney is viewed as its own pantheon; Gallifreyenism is primarily based on Doctor Who with other characters portrayed by numerous actors (including James Bond and Spider-Man) being in the pantheon; Etherianism is based on Masters of the Universe (primarily She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) with some Disney thrown in; Dreemuritism is based on Undertale; Senshiism is primarily based on Sailor Moon with other anime/manga thrown in, etc. Oh, and cosplaying is considered a sacred practice of personifying the gods by most of these. Lego was misremembered for a time as a religion based on "the Master Builders" until archaeologists finally uncovered evidence proving what it really was.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_3f633fb4	comment	The Cracked.com article '5 Light-Hearted Movies With Dark Moral Implications' raised the issue of religion in the Harry Potter universe: Regular religions exist there, and the characters are shown celebrating Christmas, so how does a world of magic and undead interact with people's belief in Christianity or other religions? Especially given that wizards can do magic akin to several miracles Jesus is said to have done. (The article neglects the fact that Christmas is often still celebrated as a secular holiday by non-Christians, especially in a Christian country like Scotland.)
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_3fbd173e	comment	The sapient robots in Freefall are trying to understand religion, and have selected "radical agnostic" Max Post as spiritual advisor for his lack of bias and dedication to critical thinking. Other than that, the only real weirdness we see from them on the subject is Dvorak's theory of "Omniquantism": If God is truly all-powerful, then all religions can be true simultaneously. Thinking about it too hard causes one in three robots to crash (the other two probably dismiss it as nonsense). Several later strips feature the human Gregor Thurmad, who is a Space Amish ("...and no computer systems more advanced than Windows 95").
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_4064f208	comment	Aberrant: There is a note that upon many humans becoming super powered the Catholic Church debated the matter and concluded that Novas (as super powered humans are dubbed) are human and therefore subject to the same matters of sin and salvation and the like. Most world religions come to similar conclusions, though some extremist groups disagree. The main one focused on is The Church of Archangel Michael, who hold that Novas are all agents of Satan and should be killed.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Various supernatural characters refer to the Abrahamic God as "the White God", and the series derives some amusing moments from the backgrounds of the Knights of the Cross, a trio of Paladins in all but name who wield swords forged with nails from the Crucifixion laid into the hilt. Michael Carpenter is Catholic but Sanya is agnostic, and Waldo Butters is Jewish. (This is largely explained by the Knights being more a matter of good intent than of a specific faith.) See also comments from a local Catholic priest about Harry, whose faith is in magic itself rather than any deity, needing holy water by the gallon for some incidents. It's also stated that any symbol of faith can repel a vampire — Harry himself uses his pentacle since that's a symbol of his faith in magic.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-3004 ("Imago"). It's a completely insane cicada god worshipped by a now-extinct Irish druidic cult that has come to believe it is the Judeo-Christian God. It warps Christian ceremonies into a Religion of Evil involving Body Horror, self-mutilation, and Animalistic Abominations. It doesn't understand what its followers really want or believe or the harm it causes and worse, it is breaking through into our reality; the Foundation's contingency is to use amnesia agents and Thaumiel-level SCPs to erase Christianity from the historical record in an attempt to starve it. It's the Hijacked by Jesus trope Inverted and played for all the cosmic and religious horror it can be.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_45d098f8	comment	There's one arc of Get Medieval that culminates in a group of characters, including medieval Christian Sir Gerard, spending some time on the moon, and Gerard at one point thinks, "No wonder it's taking Jesus 1400 years to return. He's got quite a tour to make." Similarly, when the other characters reveal their Human Alien origins, he doesn't question why they look just like humans because "God made mankind in his own image. Why would he make other planets differently?" And in the same arc, one of the Human Aliens who's converted to Islam stops for a moment to pray while they're on the moon and faces towards Earth since that's where Mecca is.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novels, there are several off-hand remarks about vampires working at kosher slaughterhouses. Which is strange because there isn't an actual Judaism in that world. Presumably, there is a religion that has a similar edict about the consumption of blood (Omnianism probably, given that that religion stands in for Abrahamic religions in general).
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man: With the Gendercide of nearly every male mammal on the planet, the Catholic Church (now consisting mostly of nuns) is trying to change the canon law so that women can be priests. However, only the pope can make a ruling to that effect, and since none of the surviving males were ordained (or even Catholic), they decide that a male born from a virgin is the only one who can fulfill this role. This leads to them trying to kidnap Beth II, not knowing that her pregnancy is from having sex with Yorick. And it's a moot point when she gives birth to a girl.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_498b77e9	comment	The world of Skin Horse is full of odd creatures and transhumans who practice religions, and religious scholars have apparently put a lot of thought into how the religious rules apply to their unusual circumstances. The most prominent example is Nick, whose brain was extracted from his body and integrated into a helicopter. He still considers himself Jewish and has installed a mezuzah on his cabin doorway.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle has a scene similar to The Mummy where Yayo tries to exorcise a spirit possessing her with symbols from multiple different religions (a cross, a Shinto charm, and Buddhist prayer beads plus a recording of a sutra), as well as garlic and salt. They have no effect whatsoever; ayakashi are affected by belief, but either one person's wasn't enough, or Yayo herself was insufficiently faithful.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_54d9e24b	comment	The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump explores the results of a mash-up of a modern-world All Myths Are True fantasy setting, in which all the magic is religiously based.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_564115c7	comment	In Everworld, the main characters are Trapped in Another World where All Myths Are True. April is a devout Catholic who at one point insists that the "gods" around her don't deserve that title, though she does have some internal struggles at times. Jalil, meanwhile, is an atheist determined to figure out how all this supernatural nonsense actually works.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_58ffa5db	comment	In The Lost Regiment series, the people of Rus on planet Valennia are descendants of Medieval Russians who were taken by a Tunnel of Light and settled a number of cities on their new world. While they retain many tenets of Orthodox Christianity, such as making the sign of the cross (in the opposite fashion of the Catholics), over 1000 years, the name Jesus has morphed into Kesus. Additionally, they never say "God" or "Lord", and Kesus's father is stated to be Pern, a mangling of Perun, the chief deity of the Old Slavic Pantheon (pre-conversion to Christianity). So any phrase you'd expect to hear "God" in, they may substitute "Pern" for that.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_62570927	comment	In the Marvel Universe, vampires are vulnerable to the symbols of all faiths — so long as the bearer of the symbol's faith is strong. Dracula himself was once burned by a faithful Jew's Magen David medallion.note It was Kitty Pryde's. Kitty first tried to subdue him with a cross, but it didn't work for her. Wolverine, (apparently an atheist at the time, or at the very least not a believing Christian) also tried to make a cross with his claws as was similarly laughed off by Dracula. It only worked for Nightcrawler, since he is a practicing Christian. Another time, a vampire mook was instakilled by Thor's hammer. (He's a god, remember?)
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_642fb4e2	comment	In Grandville, the inhabitants of a World of Funny Animals are Christian, but a version of Christianity that starts with the Flood, and presents Noah as God, releasing the animals onto Earth. It is also a matter of considerable debate what species Jesus was because the Church is suppressing the evidence that claims he was a member of the human underclass.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_64effb3f	comment	In The Second Archon War, the Archons being isekai'd on Earth-Bet and openly identifying as gods cause a great deal of reactions — the Catholic pope swiftly condemns Raiden Ei as the Antichrist while the Japanese people insist to worship her as an avatar of Amaterasu or the Spirit of their country embodied in a very pleasant female package, while the Jewish Naomi Cohen concludes her friend Venti better fits the criteria for an angel and he actively encourages her since he dislikes being worshipped.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_6572f71e	comment	In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell the existence of angels, demons, and fairies (not to mention heaven, hell, and faerie) are all apparently well-established historical facts, although only fairies are shown to definitely exist. The book's footnotes allude to religion's reaction to this alternate history: Fairies are often forcibly baptised into the church, despite their lack of understanding of Christianity. Indeed they seem to struggle with the idea that not all humans are Christians. Fairies particularly like and respect saints, who they regard as great magical beings who can be invoked for greater power. In the Middle Ages there was a debate over whether fairies can achieve salvation through Christ. One group believed that for every human who failed to achieve salvation, a place was available for a fairy to redeem itself. Magicians and priests were considered to be rivals of sorts, as both built their profession upon communing with other worlds and powers. This rivalry was largely peaceful, although the church viciously persecuted one heretic who suggested that if a fairy resurrected a human then the latter's soul and existence was now owed to the fairy rather than God.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_674f5fd3	comment	In the CoDominium series, every Imam has also become an amateur astronomer, since they have to locate Sol to find Mecca to pray toward. This is a nod to real history, as it's speculated that the difficulty of finding Mecca was a major factor in the Muslim world's innovations in astronomy, mathematics, etc.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_67c02f03	comment	Certain aspects of the Race's culture expand their worship of their Emperor (and past Emperors) to include veneration of certain important other figures from their history, who are granted the saint-like title of "Most Loyal."
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_69d15cc0	comment	The Marvel Cinematic Universe has caused Internet observers to note that Physical Gods exist on Earth, and yet there is little religious upheaval on the subject:
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_6af83614	comment	A Thing of Vikings: In the early part of the story, Christians view dragons as Satan's servants. This attitude starts changing, and it many cases, outright reverses itself with dragons being compared to angels and saints as the story progresses. After Fearless's sacrifice allows Hiccup to bring back Buffalords, whose saliva is a Panacea, Fearless starts to become something of a folk saint. Once dragon riders visit Muslim lands, Muslim scholars start furiously debating the propriety of the use of dragon-flights to perform the hajj. After it becomes known Buffalord saliva is a potent cure for many ailments, the Jewish community in Berk's territories ask the Rabbis if it's kosher (since it's from a non-kosher animal). They all answer yes, citing pikuach nefesh where saving a life takes priority over nearly every law. And then they have further discussions on what counts as a severe enough illness to justify using it, and if an illness that starts out small but can become worse counts... Esther's family argue over how to best be compliant with the prohibitions of Shabbat in the context of taking care of dragons and handling their products. Macarius asks the monks teaching him to read whether dragons have souls. After they discover Florian, the dragon he's been hiding, this becomes more than a simple theoretical question. His High Holiness Michael Keroularios, Patriarch of Constantinople, considers Macarius' and Florian's bonding, away from Constantinople, to be a unique opportunity for him to find out how dragons fit into Orthodox Greek Christian theology after he and many others realise the dragons are smarter than they thought.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Rivet City in Fallout 3 has a Catholic church dedicated to St. Monica, a ghoul who is apparently the patron saint of the Wasteland.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_6cb2d709	comment	The Harry Potter novels never really address religious issues directly (despite a lot of Christian subtext in the last book), but for what it's worth, Word of God says that she imagines that Hogwarts has hosted students of just about every religion except Wicca, simply because that idea of magic(k) is so different from the series'.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_6ea7c33b	comment	Altered Carbon: "Cortical stacks" are omnipresent technology that act as a combination Body Backup Drive and Body Surf technology. Neo-Catholics believe that spinning up a stack in any sleeve except your own is a violation of the soul, and you will forfeit your chance at eternal glory or judgment in the afterlife. Because of this, the faithful have special religious coding in their stacks so that they are not allowed to be resurrected. Shortly before the start of the series, a bill passed that prevents Neo-C's from being spun up even in virtual reality, meaning murder victims cannot testify against their killers. The Big Bad managed to find a way to fake religious coding, which she put on her Disposable Sex Workers without their knowledge or consent. The prostitutes let themselves get killed by the rich under the promise that they would be resleeved in an upgraded body, but instead they are just dumped somewhere, and the police can't do much about it since they can't even ask them what happened. The Mexican Day of the Dead has been given a twist due to stacks. While the vast majority of people are too poor to buy a new sleeve when they die, families often rent sleeves so that their dead loved ones can visit. Detective Ortega spins up her grandmother for the celebration, which freaks out her family because they are all Neo-Catholics and didn't realize grandmother had removed her coding before she died. It didn't help that she was spun up in a male Neo-Nazi sleeve covered in white supremacist tattoos.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_70adea71	comment	In DÃ¦morphing, Loren wonders if Jesus died for the sins of all sapient beings, not just humans. There are also several religious rituals related to daemons; Christians believe that they're closer to God, while Jews self-mutilate theirs at funerals (similar to ripping garments in real life).
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine drew a number of plots from the cultural conflict between the deeply religious Bajorans and the secular-humanist (and often outspokenly atheist) Federation. This is exacerbated by the fact that the Bajorans turned out in the pilot to have been mythologizing Sufficiently Advanced Aliens for tens of thousands of years: Sinister Minister Winn Adami's first appearance has her arguing with Keiko O'Brien over teaching the secular view of the wormhole and its inhabitants, as opposed to the religious traditions (an obvious allegory for teaching evolution versus creationism). The comparison immediately gets deconstructed when it turns out that outside her extremely conservative faction the rest of the clergy think the two perspectives amount to saying the same thing in different words; the show would later go on to show that their religion is accurate in every way it was testable.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_7559ae0b	comment	The Fremen in Dune are the descendants of Muslims who were relocated, apparently forcibly, to alien planets. Ten thousand years later, they are still bitter about being denied the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Chapterhouse: Dune then goes on to reveal that Judaism is still alive and kicking after 25,000 years, and introduces the reader to at least one group of Jews that's had to make only minor accommodations to their faith. This is in contrast to just about every other Dune religion, which are all mishmashes of other ones (Buddislam, Navachristianity, etc.) because Jews are just that cool.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_7829eb09	comment	The Apocalypse Door has Peter Crossman, an ex-CIA commando-turned-Catholic special operations priest (a Knight Templar who is not, ironically enough, a Knight Templar), ambushed in a bar by a car-stealing, sexy redheaded "fun nun with the gun" who forces him to both break his cover and do nothing to defend himself by approaching him for confession. He later attempts to administer the Last Ritesnote Which require him to anoint the forehead, lips, eyes, ears, heart, and hands with chrism. to a dead body, only to discover that the entire front half of its head has been sliced off. He anoints the side of his head on the temporal bone, "that being the nearest spot that remained," and the voice box in lieu of his lips, and just has to skip the eyes altogether. Later, while waiting in a bar to meet a contact, he realizes that he hasn't celebrated Mass that day, so he orders a glass of wine and takes a bowl of oyster crackers.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_78750de	comment	In "Solaere ssiun Hnaifv'daenn", when Commander Jaleh Khoroushi, an Iranian-born Shi'a Muslim, does her five daily prayers, she asks the ship's computer to point her at the Sol system. Also, following various Real Life fatwas, she requests an injected vaccine rather than an oral one to avoid breaking her Ramadan fast. The author's notes also theorize that, food replicators being a relatively recent invention (they weren't around in TOS), there still might be debate over whether replicated food is halalnote To wit, while meat animals are required to be hand-slaughtered with the name of Allah pronounced over them, does that still hold true if it was never actually an animal to begin with?, although Jaleh's already been established as willing to ignore Islamic dietary rules on deployment out of practicality. The later story "Mhirrafv Terrhai" also says that Jaleh times her daily prayers and Ramadan fast by ship time (she's briefly confused when she goes home to visit family and the local cleric sings the call to prayer at what is for her the "wrong" time).
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect Cerberus News had a news report that Jews in the future are celebrating Passover, and there is some religious argument about whether aliens can be present at the meal. Most agree that yes, they can, and there's even a small business supplying unleavened bread specifically made for turians and quarians. A certain Armor-Piercing Question in the backstory that spurs a centuries-long war that drove an entire species from their planet: "Does this unit have a soul?" The Codex indicates that many aliens have responded to the plethora of alien religions by converting (for example, Confucianism and Zen Buddhism have found a niche among the turians). For various reasons, certain religions are popular with races that discovered them only after going to the stars. Meanwhile, it is implied that theistic belief in general has declined amongst humanity (Ash implies that she has been harassed in the past for believing in God, for example).
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_79e23ae8	comment	Dominion: When angels appeared, blamed humanity for God's disappearance, and proceeded to destroy most of the planet, most organized religions understandably collapsed. In the aftermath, however, the Church of the Savior (based on belief in The Chosen One foretold to one day save and restore humanity) slid into the slots leftover and has done very well for itself, being the unofficial official religion of Vega. Inversely, there's the Black Acolytes, who still worship Gabriel as a god, and believe that the suffering he's delivered to mankind will make them great. Oh, and the matriarchal society of Helena is said to worship something called the "divine femininity" which appears to have been referring to Uriel.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_7cd65c99	comment	The Wicked Years has religious weirdness within its own fictional religions. The two main religions in Oz either worship Lurline or the Unnamed God. Many of the latter, Unionists, are talking animals known as "Animals". In Wicked, Elphaba and Boq wonder how so many Animals can be Unionist when the religion was clearly aimed towards humans and has a history of being anti-Animal.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller is often cursory as well but it has some fairly well-developed religions. In any case, religion is usually just another facet of local custom.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_86e4732f	comment	Almost the entire Kitty Norville series is about the mundane consequences of vampirism and lycanthropy, so this naturally comes up at least a bit. One particularly memorable scene in Kitty and the Midnight Hour has a vampire calling into a talk show for religious advice; apparently devout Catholicism and bursting into flame upon entering holy ground make a bad combination. Kitty's advice to him is to read Paradise Lost: she argues that Satan's real sin in that book wasn't the rebellion itself, but afterward when he came to believe that his rebellion put him beyond forgiveness forever. Likewise, supposedly, being a vampire might make existence especially inconvenient for a Catholic, but it doesn't have to mean damnation unless he gives up. Heartwarming.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Everything from Greek mythology exists and has been transplanted into the Western world. Chiron gives something of a throwaway line suggesting that the Big-G God may exist beyond the Olympians, but we're basically told not to worry about it too much. Later, a corrupt preacher in the Underworld is implied to be unable to see the place as it really is. The Sequel Series features characters who practice voodoo and Native American spirituality and goes into some depth on how they reconcile this with Greek myths—-essentially, All Myths Are True means that Apollo's chariot and Chinese sun dragons both fly around up in the sky (and almost crashed once), while it's also true that the sun is a big ball of gas that the Earth goes around. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard has Sam(ira), a daughter of Loki who was raised Muslim and then got chosen to become a Valkyrie. As far as she's concerned, the Norse gods are basically Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who are nothing compared to Allah. Heimdall implies that she may be correct. Meanwhile, Magnus is an atheist, and sees the existence of multiple pantheons as evidence that there is no "higher plan." It's also mentioned that Thor once challenged Jesus to a fight, though the latter (unsurprisingly) never showed up. (This is actually an old Norse claim, presumably made up to make Christianity sound cowardly.)
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_8ba82c3b	comment	Scary News out of Tokyo-3: It turns out Second Impact had a pretty drastic effect on a number of real-world religions (and cults). Some have died out completely; others, like (for example) Scientology, no longer exist in their original form.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_8c5f856b	comment	From Being Human: Likewise, his Star of David is shown to work against all vampires except for Mitchell, since George implicitly trusts him.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_8d80a8af	comment	Juda is an Israeli TV series about a Jewish gangster who gets turned into a vampire. Since the consumption of blood is forbidden under kosher dietary laws, this puts him in a bind of how to feed; eventually, a rabbi declares he's permitted to drink blood so long as he sticks to that of kosher animals. The fact that he's Jewish also means he can't enter any room with a mezuzah on the doorpost.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_901865c6	comment	The spin-off manga Puella Magi Tart Magica feaures Joan of Arc herself as the title Magical Girl. Naturally, it has fun with this trope. Joan/Tart believes that Kyubey is an angel (and Kyubey comments that people have called him an Angel in the past), and becomes a Magical Girl to help save France. Kyubey, meanwhile, alludes to how the Bible tells followers to not allow witches to live, which Tart sees as justification to keep fighting Witches. This is how Kyubey keeps Tart in line as a Magical Girl when she learns that Witches in the setting are Magical Girls who fell to despair, something she learned earlier than Madoka and the cast of the parent series.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech Though the setting is usually cursory in its detailing of religion, mentions theological disputes that delayed Islamic expansion into space, with the result that Islam is a minority faith in most every state in the Inner Sphere. Among other things, they decided that 'towards Mecca' can be approximated as 'towards the planet Earth', and really relaxed the hajj. The hajj was further complicated by Mecca being destroyed by a nuclear warhead during the fall of the Star League. An Entry with a Bang! used this for possibly the most positive moment involving Islamic warriors ever to appear in a Tom Clancy fanfiction. Catholicism has also split at least once since humanity spread from Earth. The New Avalon branch of the church has its own Pope and all, although it's on generally good terms with the Earth-based one. This came about back when the Star League fell and the Pope decided to transfer control of the individual branches of the church to his immediate subordinates in each Successor State — but the transmission to New Avalon (in the Federated Suns) was garbled and the cardinal assumed he had been put in charge of the whole thing instead. By the time the misunderstanding was cleared up (there was a war going on, after all), both sides had grown just far enough apart to make a simple reunion impractical, and so the division has stood. Just to put the cherry on it, a combination of bad planning, war crimes, and national/religious fervor has resulted in the current Pope of New Avalon being a qualified Mechwarrior with his very own assault-class Omnimech.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_950b8e88	comment	Malachi in Enter the Farside talks about this in Interlude 2. He says that the existence of the Farside was enough to make most major religions have a big enough crisis of faith that a war started to happen.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_981e980e	comment	In Kameron Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha a Space Diaspora that took place so long ago that the existence of Earth has apparently been forgotten has wrought huge changes on Islam, the dominant religion of the planet it takes place on. There is of course no Mecca or apparently even any memory of it. The least changed faction has added a sixth prayer time but the really changed culture is that of the nation of Nasheen which is an Islamic matriarchy.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_9838249c	comment	Transhuman Space gives a brief rundown on how various religions deal with "ghosts" and AIs. Broadly speaking, they tend to be "humanocentric" but not "bio-chauvinist" (that is, they don't see AIs as people, but accept brain uploads as being the same person, more or less), although there are lots of exceptions and several fringe sects such as Christian Hyperevolutionism.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_9a163f91	comment	The graphic novel Creature Tech has its skeptical scientist end up on an alien world at one point... only to find an alien Jesus being crucified. Naturally, if Jesus were real and divine, there's no way he would've died to save just one species.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_9bafe00f	comment	In Perelandra, it's revealed that Christ's life had profound cosmic consequences: after God became human it meant that all new sentient species from that point on would be human (though possibly of the Green-Skinned Space Babe variety.) Interestingly, however, Perelandra still has to go through its own version of the temptation of Evenote Forbidden Locations to Sleep Overnight, versus Forbidden Fruit, which forms the plot for the novel.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_9f0dae2a	comment	In The Cold Moons, the badgers have an Animal Religion that takes influence from Abrahamic religions. They seemingly understand the story of Adam and Eve as it's mentioned that God (called "Logos") cursed earth due to man's disobedience, but how this all relates to badgers is unspecified. Badgers believe that all animals (including humans) have souls and that they'll all live together peacefully in Asgard when they die.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama, Dr. Zoidberg, who himself carries many stereotypical Jewish mannerisms, is in one episode refused entrance to a "Bot-Mitzvah", run by Jewish robots, due to being shellfish and thus not kosher. Word of God says that his entire race converted to something akin to 20th-century East Coast America middle-class moderate/reform Judaism because it suited them... and because it's funny.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_a62dae97	comment	According to The Qur'an and other Islamic sources, djinni (invisible spirits made of fire and the inspiration for genies in Western literature) follow the same religions that humans do — there are Muslim genies, Christian genies, Jewish genies, etc. — and will be judged at the end of time in the same manner that humans will.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_a80ba68a	comment	Jo Walton's Thessaly trilogy (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, and Necessity) explore a setting in which the goddess Athena uses time travel, magic, and robots to create something resembling Plato's Republic thousands of years in the past (It Makes Sense in Context), including some Christian characters' reactions to finding themselves living well before the birth of Christ.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_aa639666	comment	Out of the Silent Planet has Martians who believe in the Trinity but have not yet learned of the incarnation of Christ (in the series, Earth is under a sort of spiritual quarantine that has prevented news from reaching the other planets). They are also un-Fallen (at least mostly: they do die, though they have no fear of death) and so did not have nor need an Incarnation of their own.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_b1058237	comment	The Temeraire series: One scene features a priest discussing whether the (intelligent) dragons possess original sin. He comes to the conclusion that since they're not mentioned in the Bible as eating from the Tree, they do not. They're also unrelated to the serpent who tempted Eve because while the serpent was cursed to crawl along the ground, dragons mostly get around by flying through the air. Itâ€™s occasionally brought up that Temeraire is perplexed by Christianity. One scene mentions that his captain Laurence has given up trying to teach him the Bible because the naturally curious Temeraire keeps asking stunningly blasphemous questions that make Laurence fear divine retribution, and in another Temeraire contemplates how strange it is that Laurence can deny the existence of spirits despite believing in one (the Holy Spirit). When the group travels through the Middle East in Black Powder War they see both people and dragons praying towards Mecca. A Buddhist dragon also gets a mention, though her religion is implied rather than stated outright.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_b28f43ff	comment	The Takeshi Kovacs trilogy and its live-action adaptation Altered Carbon talk about Neo-Catholics, a futuristic revision of the old faith that, among other things, believes that use of the "Cortical Stack" (a Body Backup Drive and Body Surf technology that is omnipresent in the setting) means a violation of the soul (to explain: people resurrected with the Stack are The Soulless, who have forfeited their chance at eternal glory or judgment), and because of this those who practice the faith have given orders to not have their Stacks re-spun no matter what (essentially a futuristic "Do Not Resuscitate"). This becomes a very important plot point in the first book of the series.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_b7b5e290	comment	In Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels, the very existence of Deryni complicates religious questions. Deryni celebrants of the Sacraments can sense the psychic energies and emotions of participants (especially during key points of the Eucharist and the bestowing of Holy Orders). Does that make them higher than other humans on the Great Chain of Being? Were the Deryni persecutions a matter of jealousy as well as fear? (Supported by Word of God.) Some few Deryni can heal just as Christ is depicted doing in the New Testament. How does that undercut the rationale (such as it is) for persecuting Deryni? Was Christ Deryni? Was Camber really a saint? Perhaps a guardian angel? Did he choose to become a saint or an angel in the afterlife? Did his powers and his arcane knowledge permit him to choose that destiny for himself?
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_bb478d5e	comment	Bait and Switch (STO): In "Solaere ssiun Hnaifv'daenn", when Commander Jaleh Khoroushi, an Iranian-born Shi'a Muslim, does her five daily prayers, she asks the ship's computer to point her at the Sol system. Also, following various Real Life fatwas, she requests an injected vaccine rather than an oral one to avoid breaking her Ramadan fast. The author's notes also theorize that, food replicators being a relatively recent invention (they weren't around in TOS), there still might be debate over whether replicated food is halalnote To wit, while meat animals are required to be hand-slaughtered with the name of Allah pronounced over them, does that still hold true if it was never actually an animal to begin with?, although Jaleh's already been established as willing to ignore Islamic dietary rules on deployment out of practicality. The later story "Mhirrafv Terrhai" also says that Jaleh times her daily prayers and Ramadan fast by ship time (she's briefly confused when she goes home to visit family and the local cleric sings the call to prayer at what is for her the "wrong" time). The Wrong Reflection: USS Bajor carries a Bajoran chapel and a chaplain (a Bajoran monk contracted with Starfleet) due to the crew's unusually high percentage of Bajorans. Most Starfleet ships have neither, whereas another story has a brief mention of the Bajoran Militia having traditional uniformed chaplains. Various other stories mention new denominations such as Reform Baptist, and paganism has apparently made enough of a resurgence for a recurring character's mother to have been raised Norse.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_be9c64ce	comment	Banestorm has this conceit as one of its central premises. Since the humans of the setting were initially yanked from Crusades-era Earth, and eventually became the dominant race, the major human religions are Christianity and Islam, with most nonhumans having converted. The introductory fiction in the setting book has an English sailor from the 16th century ending up on Yrth, Banestorm's world, and the first person he meets is a Catholic priest... who just so happens to be a goblin. Being transported to another Earth and meeting nonhumans raised a lot of theological questions, from which direction to pray in a world without the Mecca to whether or not nonhumans can be converted, but they eventually acclimatized (although some races are considered beyond salvation, such as demons, spirits, medusas, trolls, and vampires).
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_c0d124e1	comment	Interestingly, Islam in the "Riddickverse" seems to have adapted fairly well to interstellar colonization. Hajj is made to the planet New Mecca, and when pilgrims pray, they face straight up, toward the stars.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_c19c6efa	comment	One Muslim Minecraft player made a Self-Imposed Challenge for observing the faith in-game.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_c399cd39	comment	Eclipse Phase briefly mentions how the three Abrahamic religions coped (or, more accurately, largely failed to cope) with the functional immortality granted by Brain Uploading and Body Surfing, and how faiths with reincarnation as a tenet (such as Hinduism and Buddhism) increased in popularity as the technology became widely available.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who has never dealt too much with religion, and usually holds the view that there's No Such Thing as Space Jesus. However... A few episodes show the Church a few thousand years from now, which shows that the Church have become Knight Templars â€” "protecting you now and in the hereafter." Also, the Pope's a woman. "The Big Bang", set in a collapsing alternate timeline with no stars in the night sky, has a mention of Richard Dawkins (a noted atheist in Real Life) as the leader of a "star cult". The classic era story "The Curse of Fenric" contains a species of mutant humans from the far future known as "Haemovores" who feed on the blood of other species. Although they at first appear to be repelled by standard holy symbols, this is in fact revealed not to be the case - what repels them is actually the wielder's faith. A reverend whose faith has been destroyed by witnessing the horrors of war is unable to repel the Haemovores with his Bible, but a Russian soldier successfully repels them with his Red Star badge and his faith in Communism. Ace can also repel them because she has complete and unwavering faith in the Doctor, which becomes an important plot point in the final episode when he needs to weaken her faith in him so that he can beat Fenric.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_c675b3d7	comment	The Star Trek Expanded Universe collection Star Trek Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings by David Mack has a story that involves a Jewish-Klingon wedding. The author apparently found a rabbi who was also a Star Trek aficionado and asked him how it would probably go down from a ceremonial standpoint, as well as what Klingon foods would be kosher.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf series, Tapper is a Christian Smurf who believes that Jesus' death on the cross was not just for God redeeming humans from the power of sin, but also for God redeeming all of His creation, including Smurfs. In "Flowerbell's Love Triangle", he is seen praying for Papa Smurf's soul in regard to the corrupting influence of magic, as Papa Smurf is the village's resident sorcerer. Although in "Smurphony Of The Night", Empath's use of a Smurf head symbol for a religious symbol helps him fend off a Smurf vampire who wants to make Smurfette his vampiress bride.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_ca050d2f	comment	There's a few moments in The Path. Hawk Lane and other teens attend public high school where they say Meyerist grace holding hands before (vegetarian) lunch, and are called "weird cult kids". The trope really comes into play during Restitution, a Yom Kippur-like solemnity that all Meyerists, including those who live outside the community, are required to attend. Hawk, visiting a friend in New York, remembers that the speech his mother — currently a "Guardian of the Light" — gave at a recent religious conference was self-serving and not very Meyerist, so he blows off the festival. Although he volunteers to atone in Realignment Lockdown when he returns, it's implied he would be placed in lockdown anyway.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_d3907802	comment	In the alternate universe of Marvel 1602, it's even weirder: Thor's human incarnation Donal is a member of The Knights Templar, and has to deal with the fact that his own existence contradicts his faith.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_d4263e4c	comment	In the Wild Cards books, the Church of Jesus Christ Joker believes that Jesus Christ incarnated as an intersex Joker. Most of the parishioners are Jokers themselves.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_db3446e2	comment	In Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear, fae who existed before the coming of Christ are not bound by Christian tradition, while those born afterward are (and thus, for example, reflexively flinch whenever the name of God is spoken).
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_de8ae019	comment	In the backstory of the Star Carrier series Islamic terrorists nuked several major cities around the world, setting off World War III. In its wake, every faith was required to ratify a pledge called the White Covenant that outlawed many religious practices: all adherents of all faiths could believe as they wished so long as that belief did not harm others. Proselytizing, most missionary work and conversion by threat or force were now violations of basic human rights. Naturally this didn't go over well with some, such as the Muslim colonists on Mufrid whom the America battle group is trying to rescue at least some of in Earth Strike, choosing to GTFO rather than ratify.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_df2eb6f4	comment	In Highlander, immortals cannot fight on holy ground without dire consequences. This applies to places that are holy in religions that are younger than the younger immortals and to places that were holy in old religions that are now extinct. How a place becomes holy or not and how the immortals know if a place qualifies is never explained.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_e6758d93	comment	The second edition of Scion abandons the Masquerade-focused world of the first edition in favor of a world where the pantheons have always been known to the world, but not necessarily prominent. As a result, a lot of syncretism happens, but it's not treated as a huge deal. A parishioner may go to church on Sunday, but might offer a sacrifice to a Yoruba deity for good luck or order a taurobolium during an OB-GYN appointment. That said, the Abrahamic figures have gone from being heavily implied to not exist — since Satan is no longer actually Pan while YHVH and his angels aren't heavily implied to be the Titan Aten and his spawn — to having their status go unmentioned.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_e8d05749	comment	The Dracula-parody film Love at First Bite has a scene where a Magen David proves to have no effect on Dracula. Amusingly, the guy wielding the Magen David only has it because he's a psychiatrist who adopted a Jewish name "for professional reasons."
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_e92653af	comment	And then there's the Mexican Santa Claus (1959), in which Santa is a demon-battling alien who lives with Merlin and Hephaestus/Vulcan, and actually mentions Jesus Christ.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_efbf004f	comment	The High Crusade: Since the protagonists are transplanted Medieval English Catholics, they must adopt their religion somewhat after colonizing far-off planets and ruling other species that are new to them. For instance, there's debate over whether having sex with a female of another species is bestiality per the Biblical law. They also convert many members of other species, with some even becoming bishops, and have their own "Popelet", while making clear this is merely a stand-in for the real Pope, whom they still owe allegiance to. Plus they have difficulty in regards to keeping religious holidays: This being a cheerful(ly whacked) work, they quote Jesus's words that the Sabbath was made for men and not the other way around, cheer up, and decide that they'll work it out.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f02ba81a	comment	Between the World Wars, in US East Coast Jewish culture, there was a common custom of going to the Catskills during the summers to watch Jewish vaudeville shows in the resorts there. One of the most popular and most common jokes would take place in the context of a skit in which a leering vampire pursues a woman all around the set, until, cornered, she hides her face and holds out a cross. "Dracula" would smirk at the audience, and hold his knowing pause until the audience was hysterical with laughter, then say, sometimes in Yiddish, "Oy, have YOU got the wrong vampire!" That joke also got used in The Fearless Vampire Killers.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f0790d2f	comment	Filipino horror and fantasy movies tend to reflect the local manifestations of Catholicism, including Christianized animism. The Killing of Satan on the other hand runs away with Red Tuxedo Satan and his gang of flamboyant sorcerers.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f0e68fa9	comment	In the Leviathan series, it is implied that the Catholic Church has an issue with the genetically engineered beasties that are used by the allied powers.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f135d731	comment	The Wandering has some aliens from two different worlds discover that the only way to salvation is through Jesus and that Jesus' death on the cross was for all creation, including them.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f2041376	comment	A mild version occurs early in Charmed. Piper isn't very religious, but she wonders if the revelation that she's a witch means that she's evil in some way. She spends a whole episode psyching herself up to walk into a church and is relieved when she doesn't suddenly burst into flames or something. The Source once tries to enter a church, but it turns out that those gargoyles actually do protect against evil spirits — one begins to snarl and creates a sort of magical barrier that weakens him.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f3368832	comment	In general, the Buffyverse has an odd relationship with Christianity. Crosses, holy water, and exorcism are all effective against vampires or demons, but most of what's portrayed about its actual cosmology isn't particularly Christian. One explanation is that it's not that Christian holy symbols work because of their connection to Christianity, but rather early Christians decided that symbols that messed up vampires were holy. On the other hand, there is a heaven where the dead go to and many worlds that are labeled as hells. A line early in the episode "Tabula Rasa" makes it clear that there are multiple "heavenly" dimensions, not one specific "heaven where the dead go to." In the Buffy episode "Passions", Willow does a ritual to prevent Angelus from entering her home: Toyed with in the second episode of the series, where Giles is explaining the origins of vampires and demons, and notes that "contrary to popular mythology" the world did not begin as a paradise, but a hell-world.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f42ccd4f	comment	Ideoligions in Rimworld: Ideology may (among other options) be nominally descended from Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, or Islam. Nominally. The descended religions may share the faith's symbols, naming conventions, and some vestigial practices like Christianity's Christmas Trees. Past that, their precepts may veer wildly off-course, and even when the precepts look something like the original faith, the generated narratives suggest that the religions have changed a lot in the face of the vast separations between the stars.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f4bc7cf	comment	The Venus Prime series has Khalid Sayeed, a devout Shiite Muslim who happens to live on Mars. To compensate for the fact that Mecca is on an entirely different planet, he uses a special astrolabe to discern Mecca's location relative to Mars so that he can pray in approximately the right direction.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f5c28dbb	comment	1632: Pope Urban VIII has to decide whether papal infallibility still applies when the pope in question will now never be born. Short answer: No. Slightly longer answer: No, but that doesn't mean their opinions should be disregarded altogether.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 had several in-universe examples: Ivanova's childhood rabbi visits the station, triggering a brief discussion of the difficulty of determining the kosher status of non-Earth food. The Rabbi's conclusion is that anything not mentioned in the Torah was probably OK, but he isn't certain. Or maybe he just wasn't too strict in his beliefs and wanted to try the food.note For the record, traditional Judaism argues the opposite, that questionable animals (like many birds) should be considered non-kosher unless tradition says otherwise. The food in question was actually a kind of fish, and the fish rules are fairly technical. The creator discussions mention that they would have loved to do more on it but didn't really have time. Ivanova, the only Jewish regular on the show, solves it by not bothering to keep kosher (her only objection to having bacon for breakfast was her tablemates' jealousy over the fact that Marcus hadn't provided her enough to share), though she probably wouldn't have on Earth, either. A couple episodes feature a monastic order moving onto the station whose primary mission is to learn about the nature of God, which they accomplish in part by interviewing aliens such as Delenn about their native religious beliefs. In an offhand mention in one episode, The Pope is described as a "she." Note that this is grammatically questionable: the official title of the position is "Supreme Pontiff." The word "pope" is more like an official nickname, a derivation of papa: father—a very masculine description. In The Lost Tales, a Catholic priest monologues for a bit about the Catholic Church having to face a massive decline after humanity reached the stars. Naturally, he finds himself having to deal with a possible Demonic Possession. The Catholic Church later helps to rebuild human civilization by saving knowledge in monasteries After the End, just as in Real Life following the fall of the Roman Empire. Quite a few humans have turned to Interfaith Smoothie religions, including the local doctor. Others have picked up worship of The Maker, a deliberately vague creator god. G'Quan's Narn followers are meant to perform a certain ritual at the time the sun dawns over a sacred mountain on their homeworld. When G'Kar is unable to hold the ritual then due to a lack of supplies, he is able to save face by holding the ritual at the time the light from that dawn nearly 10 years ago reaches Babylon 5 at the speed of light. "Passing Through Gethsemane" asks whether a criminal subjected to Death of Personality and then converted to Catholicism can receive absolution if he can no longer remember his sins. (At this point it should surprise nobody that Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is of Polish descent and was raised in the Catholic Church.)
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_fd0da518	comment	The Wrong Reflection: USS Bajor carries a Bajoran chapel and a chaplain (a Bajoran monk contracted with Starfleet) due to the crew's unusually high percentage of Bajorans. Most Starfleet ships have neither, whereas another story has a brief mention of the Bajoran Militia having traditional uniformed chaplains.
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_fdf7a632	comment	The Vampire: The Requiem book on the Lancea Sanctum (a generally Abrahamic Covenant that believes the centurion Longinus was turned into a vampire when the blood of Christ dripped onto his lips and was taught that vampires are commanded by God to harrow sinners) goes into detail about how the various creeds mesh together on the vampiric condition and the mortal faith of their practitioners (for instance, how a Muslim vampire effectively fasts during Ramadan when he's in a coma from sunup to sundown).
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