Star Trek a Religion??

[ShamelessMcBundy]

It will become a full religion by the 23rd century, as predicted by Futurama.

The Church of the Christine Chapel.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Trek has a canon of texts which were written at different times by different people, which don't always correlate with each other. It has many different sub sects and denominations. It has a Messiah (Gene) and an Antichrist (B&B). It has armies of followers giving it wodges of money every year.

Sounds like a religion to me!

I would cast GR as "prophet/founder" a la Moses, the Buddha, Muhammed.

Who are B & B?? Berman and . . . ? Wouldn't JJ be a better antiChrist (destroyer who comes disguised as savior)?

No, JJ makes a better Mohammed, the prophet who comes up with a new version of the standard canon and revises a bunch of stuff to make it more attractive to a new audience, with the end result of either alienating followers of the old version or assimilating them into the new.

 

[Commander Rabbit]

if this is considered to be a religion, then the red cross or other similar organization is just as much as one.

Or football.

But the article WAS really interesting and made some valid points. I just don't buy that those individual points add up to a religion.

 

[plynch]

No seriously, who are B & B as antichrists? I don't get it, and it's probably real obvious.