XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Dec 11, 2007 · 68 posts
Keith posted Wed, 12 December 2007 at 8:17 PM
Quick, name a fictional TV series or movie where atheism plays a major role or there's a major character who is an atheist and a normal person. Takes you a while to think of one, if any, doesn't it?
*Red Dwarf. took 2 seconds to think of it. (Rimmer (sorry brain fart) is an athiest. )
*I repeat, where an atheist is a normal person.
I mean someone who goes to work, has normal relationships, isn't someone constantly agonizing over their "lack of faith" or whatever. They're just someone who doesn't believe in a deity. Full stop. They don't undergo a sudden revelation, they're not constantly playing Agent Scully in the face of evidence, and, most importantly, they're not displayed as somehow wring or deluded.
If I was being mean, no science-fiction allowed. Only fictional work that is based in the here and now.