Religion in science fiction | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:01:38 1 Afterlife
00:02:14 2 Angels
00:02:59 3 Creation myths
00:05:31 4 Demons
00:06:32 5 Devil
00:10:12 6 Eschatology and the ultimate fate of the universe
00:13:38 7 Evangelism
00:14:45 8 Fictional religions
00:22:22 9 God or deities
00:29:26 10 Heaven and paradise
00:31:54 11 Hell
00:32:31 12 Jesus
00:40:43 13 Another Son of God
00:44:00 14 Judaism
00:45:12 15 Logos
00:45:27 16 Messianism
00:46:58 17 Millennialism and Millenarianism
00:47:20 18 Missionarism
00:47:39 19 Original sin
00:48:23 20 Pope
00:49:22 21 Penance
00:49:45 22 Reincarnation
00:51:59 23 Star of Bethlehem
00:52:40 24 Theocracy
01:02:36 25 See also



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Science fiction will sometimes address the topic of religion. Often religious themes are used to convey a broader message, but others confront the subject head-on—contemplating, for example, how attitudes towards faith might shift in the wake of ever-advancing technological progress, or offering creative scientific explanations for the apparently mystical events related in religious texts (gods as aliens, prophets as time travelers, etc.).  As an exploratory medium, science fiction rarely takes religion at face value by simply accepting or rejecting it; when religious themes are presented, they tend to be investigated deeply.
Some science fiction works portray invented religions, either placed into a contemporary Earth society (such as the Earthseed religion in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower), or in the far future (as seen in Dune by Frank Herbert, with its Orange Catholic Bible).  Other works examine the role of existing religions in a futuristic or alternate society.  The classic Canticle for Leibowitz explores a world in which Catholicism is one of the few institutions to survive an apocalypse, and chronicles its slow re-achievement of prominence as civilisation returns.
Christian science fiction also exists, sometimes written as allegory for inspirational purposes.Orson Scott Card has criticized the genre for oversimplifying religion, which he claims is always shown as "ridiculous and false".