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, 4 years agogrammar, word choice. "it's tenants" means the text has people renting from it.
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** Thanks to the new crap they have in the future, they no longer find religion a big deal.
** All copies of religious text were destroyed, making religion impossible.
* '''Inverted''': The advanced civilization is more religious and deeply spiritual than we are now.
** The advanced civilization considers disbelief in religion and/or atheism to be quaint and unreasonable.
* '''Downplayed''': Religion still exists in a highly advanced civilization, but since faith is seen as a more personal thing, open displays of belief are rare.
* '''Subverted''': An advanced civilization considers religion to be a false and a quaint relic of the past
** Alternately, we find out that our modern religions are regarded as superstitions by the civilization... but they have their own religion(s) to take its place.
*** "We've outgrown those silly superstitions. Now we all know that [[Scientology|Xenu]] is the true god."
** A previously atheistic society is destroyed in a violent cataclysm. In the aftermath, the survivors revive old religions and create new ones out of a popular belief that the disaster is a punishment from the gods for abandoning them.
** Somebody discovers a long-forgotten religious text. He reads it, becomes engrossed with it, and begins preaching its tenets in public, leading to a massive religious revival.
* '''Double Subverted''': Upon discovering [[Eldritch Abomination|something powerful enough to justifiably call itself a god]], the people of the advanced civilization [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punch it out]].
** Alternately, the civilization's religion(s) turn out to be the worshipers of [[No Such Thing
* '''Parodied''': The civilization's people are [[Flat Earth Atheist|Flat Earth Atheists]] who deal with [[Psychic Powers]], [[Physical God|Physical Gods]], and the afterlife every day, but constantly find some ridiculous way to rationalize their way around it.
** Somehow, even though the supernatural underpinnings of these superstitions don't exist, [[All Myths Are True]] and all prophecies end up being fulfilled anyway, much to the consternation of skeptics trying to undermine the religion(s) in question.
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