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Permalink Reply by ernie garcia on October 14, 2011 at 10:13pm

then you really don't want to know this, greg.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/09/08/hateful-homoph...

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Ferley on February 15, 2011 at 9:08am

William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.

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Permalink Reply by Atheist Mama on February 15, 2011 at 12:09pm

How can nobody have already said Ivan Karamazov from The Brothers Karamazov?  This book changed my life.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 15, 2011 at 12:53pm

Wasn't he portrayed in a dark light because Dostoyevsky had issues about existence of god (in other words christian existentialist like Kierkegard)?

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Permalink Reply by BadHandshakers on March 1, 2011 at 9:24pm

Yeah, same here. Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment was also a nihilist, albeit he was a born again moralistic Christian by the end of it all.

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Permalink Reply by Maske on February 15, 2011 at 12:19pm

The main characters in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth. This one was strange though, because in that world magic definitely existed, as did another 'spirit realm'.. but there was a distinction between those who believed in some sort of 'Creator', and those who didn't (main protagonists). The Creator crowd had a constant battle with the secular magic-wielding crowd, cos they though magic was a tool of the devil, and wanted to abolish it from the world. Main protagonists were like 'See... have magic.. you have yet to show me this Creator person thing, why should I listen to you?'

 

Without talking about the plot of all 11 books.. I though the way TG eventually reconciled this was quite neat.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Bricklemyer on February 15, 2011 at 4:37pm

Han Solo was. "Hokey religions..."

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 15, 2011 at 4:45pm

Yeah, but he also existed in a surreal fictional realm that masqueraded as science fiction while being fantasy.

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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on February 15, 2011 at 11:07pm

Star treck and Stargate is science fiction; Starwars had so many supernatural themes it rivalled the matrix.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 16, 2011 at 3:31am

Unfortunately I'm a hard sf to death fan so to me star trek is nothing more than sixties western revival masquerading as an space opera while having some awesome episode written by some awesome people like The city on the edge forever :D

While I didn't watch stargate, to spaceoperish for my taste :(

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Permalink Reply by Cristynfaye on October 14, 2011 at 5:35pm

Ack I LOVE stargate.  I didn't know I was a scifi geek until my husband sat me down and made me watch it.  Of course, I guess I'm not a purist as far as scifi is concerned since that's the only scifi I've really been exposed to.  Unless you count Spaceballs.

 

BUT I would have to say that stargate is pretty atheistic.  The whole premise is about overtaking these aliens who have pretended to be ancient Egyptian, Greek and other mythological gods.  Later on in the series they also take on the Ori who pretty much kind of parallel Christianity (the horrible parts of it, anyway).  

Ok, I love stargate and could go on about it for hours.  *geek* 

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Permalink Reply by Maske on October 19, 2011 at 1:13pm

Position of Maske's internet soulmate: taken.

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