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Permalink Reply by Ralph Oswald on October 14, 2011 at 9:25pm

Gene Rodenberry referred to Star Trek as a "Wagon Train To The Stars." 

I can't name specific characters by many themes in Arthur C. Clarke's (who was himself Atheist) novels are atheistic in nature. He avoids discussions of "higher beings" very well. Clarke was probably the main impetus for me to eschew religion. 

 

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Permalink Reply by Steve on October 24, 2011 at 4:13pm

That was a marketing gimmick to sell it to television executives. Westerns big then and that's what they understood

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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on February 15, 2011 at 11:12pm

I'm trying to write a fantasy theistic vs atheistic novel focused around religious intolerance and the like. I'm trying to iron out the details clearly (i.e. Mages are scientists; magic is another aspect of science (ie natural) and ironically resembles the pseudo; theistics church simular to vatican; etc).

If I ever get published (Hopeful), some more names can be added to this list, i guess.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 16, 2011 at 3:35am

I also write stuff like than and in my highly atheistic universes it is a well known fact that religious people implode :P

But if you do finish something let me know ;)

 

p.s. in one universe I tried for science and magic to coexist but it was futile :(  

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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on February 16, 2011 at 3:52pm

p.s. in one universe I tried for science and magic to coexist but it was futile :(  

 

I know. That's one of my problems that the blending between any magic and science is horriblely distaughted and messy. Try explaining a fireball as an exothermic reaction between two common gases in the air. How far should the whole 'spirit' idea go? How hard the atheistic ideas should be? etc.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 17, 2011 at 7:34am

Usually my problem what that magic comes from 'spirit energy' while science works with 'normal energy' and the spirit energy always goes berserk, it is always much more powerful than science, so I tried to put some rules on it but it's just science then, but I, just for fun, call it alchemy. So what you've got is alchemy vs science and this is just pointless. You ether need just science (an atheistic universe) or you need just alchemy which is just fantasy not science fiction.

Than I tried to split things that you can achieve easily with science and than with alchemy, like teleportation is very complex for science but easy with alchemy/magic but then again magic becomes more powerful than science. So it was just impossible.

I wasn't writing a book but making a plausible game universe and I just gave up on science with real magic universe. Maybe it's a holy grail of gaming. 

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Permalink Reply by Becca on February 16, 2011 at 12:12am

There is also Brita from the show community... a female atheist.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan E. Hoffman on February 16, 2011 at 12:48am

All of Rand's protagonists from Atlas Shrugged were mentioned (That trailer looks horrible by the way. Glad they didn't cast me in it). Howard Roark and Gail Wynand from Fountainhead are the two explicit ones. 

 

Spenser from Robert B. Parker's novels is an atheist.

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on February 16, 2011 at 12:56am

In the Dresden Files novels, Sanya, one of the Knights of the Cross (he wields one of the three holy swords forged from the three nails of the cross) is an agnostic. When asked how he could be agnostic given that he received his sword directly from the Archangel Michael, he responded that it could be extremely advanced aliens, extra-dimensional beings, a type of powerful fae, etc.

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Permalink Reply by Samantha on February 16, 2011 at 9:14am

Huh.  I've read all the Dresden novels, I guess I overlooked that point.  Now in a universe presented as the Dresden books do, it'd take much more effort to be even agnostic. :)

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on February 16, 2011 at 1:57pm

I think it is only brought up twice, in passing. Sanya needs to show up more, but I guess he's a little busy, being the only active knight at the moment.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 16, 2011 at 3:37am

Are there any atheistic anime characters, or they all are?

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