How do you have an animistic religion in a space opera setting where everyone has easy access to science and information? What kind of elements would the religion have?
How do you have an animistic religion in a space opera setting where everyone has easy access to science and...
Brody Torres
Austin Ortiz
Easy access to science and information exists today, m8. So does religion.
Basically nothing will change, other than the names of lands conquered in the name of [insert god here]
Maybe certain events and people, maybe even robots, would be canonized. Curiosity and other probes, for example, would be sacred for any Mars colonizer and their final resting places would be holy sites.
Elijah Baker
The spirits are in the machine, the gost is in the shell.
Easy access to information means easy access to misinformation as well. Science can't do much against entrenched beliefs (see: flat earther threads on /x/, or the moon moon folks).
William Phillips
Now I feel like making a game out of battling crabs.
Jordan Reed
>everyone has access to science and information because Kami spread information faster than light
>Spaceships fly on a spiritual power of Kami enshrined inside
>Priests advise people on using technology in a way that doesn't interfere with nature and spirituality
Easton Walker
Why not amphipods instead?
Kayden Moore
OH GEE I FUCKING WONDER.
Andrew Young
Just make the religion actually, verifiably true.
It's space opera, fuck realism.
Ryder Rogers
>How do you have an animistic religion in a space opera setting where everyone has easy access to science and information?
I think the real world answers your question desu.
Charles Ward
Isn't Shintoism pretty animistic?
Isn't Japan one of the most advanced countries on the planet?
Something like that, I imagine.
Especially the part where they value orthopraxy over orthodoxy, which is an element of Shintoism we often gloss over from our own Western, Judeo-Christian, orthodox perspective.