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Roddenberry's sentiments on religion

Reference is made to Roddenberry religion views in the section, ""Personal Life,"" which is probably appropriate. However, the he said / she said statements regarding religious references in the ""Star Trek"" universe are probably inappropriate here, in Roddenberry's biography. Is not such discussion better placed in entries regarding ""Star Trek?""  

""I guess from that time it was clear to me that religion was largely nonsense, was largely magical, superstitious things. In my own teen life I just couldn't see any point in adopting something based on magic, which was obviously phony and superstitious. I stopped going to church as soon as it became possible to do things on my own as a teenager. I made up my mind that church, and probably largely the Bible, was not for me. I did not go back to even thinking much about it. If people need to do that, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you and you can go on with your own life. (Alexander,  Star Trek Creator, p. 37)

""My second wife Majel Lee (Hudec) and I were both raised Protestant but well before ever meeting had both left the Protestant Church in favor of non-sectarian beliefs which included respect for all other religions, but emphasizing the concept of God as too great and too encompassing to be explained and appreciated by any single system of belief. Some aspects of Buddhism express some of our beliefs but also do some aspects of the New and Old Testaments as well as other books and philosophies."" (Alexander, Star Trek Creator, p. 422).

""It seems to me more and more with each passing year and each new massacre (as many perpetrated by Christians as anyone else) that the real villain is religion - at least religion as generally practiced by people who somehow become sure that they and only they know the 'real' answer. How few humans there are that seem to realize that killing, much less hating, their fellow humans in the name of their 'god' is the ultimate kind of perversion.

At any rate, I've elected to believe in a God which is so far beyond our conception and real understanding that it would be nonsense to do anything in its name other than perhaps to revere all life as being part of that unfathomable greatness."" (Alexander, Star Trek Creator, p. 480)

Alexander, David.  Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry.  1994, New York: NY: Penguin Group.

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There seems to be a feud going on between 68.3.136.97 and others over the inclusion of the paragraph about Roddenberry's work ethics...   04:28 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I think ""haigographic"" is a typo, so I corrected it.   August 2, 2006

Trekker1 here... I worked on the show and with Gene Roddenberry.  He did not leave the show in the third season.  He worked right up until his death.  And why post mean-spirited things about arguements with the studio?  Is this really what should be in a biography?  I'm not sure how to get into this chat room  hope this is the way.  I will continue to monitor his bio for accuracy and appropriate commentary.

Wikipedia is not meant to be mean. We try to collect ""facts"" on a neutrale point of view. There are a lot of sources that say that Gene was quite controversial. e.g.: http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/Books_Gene%20Roddenberry.html or just read the autobiographies of Kirk, Spock, Uhura.... Wikipedia makes exactly the difference to the rest of the internet/books/voices that it shows positive and negative things of everything. You can not be neutral if you don't state the negative sides of a person. Please help us to make this article ""true"" by not only deleting but also contributing. Thanks,  06:12 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Trekker1 again... In the interest