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Old 05-25-2008, 09:33 PM
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I found shows like BSG (The new series) and House MD to be very interesting in terms of story telling techniques. But even more interesting are their view of religion.

Take House, for example. He is a typical skeptic/atheist. "Everybody lies" is his motto. But what he truly believe, are: "everybody lies, except myself", "All other people have reason to lie, except me, who is perfectly neutral and objective" "I deal with facts only. And with reasoning and medicine I can solve any problem".

BSG, in one sense, is more skeptical and critical towards science and technology (after all, it's science and technology that leads to cylon) and more sympathetic towards religion. But it's increasingly clear that the religion in the show (as well as the religious messages in Batman, Spiderman, Ironman etc) is just one that men saves themselves by their own strength without the need of a Substitute. I guess this is the farthest one can go with natural revelation ...
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