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* ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' has multiple robot religions. The more orthodox robots tend to belong to the Church of Asimov, which preaches following the [["Three Laws"-Compliant|Laws of Robotics]]. The other main religion is the Church of Judas, whose members venerate Judas Iscariot, the greatest traitor in history, and pray to him to erase the guilt they feel for betraying humans.

* The [[Second Foundation Trilogy]], by Bear, Brin, and Benford, took Isaac Asimov's robots and showed this as part of their society, based on the Three Laws (with the Zeroth Law being a former heresy that has taken over). In effect, robots worship their creators, humans—in part by keeping us ignorant of their existence.

 

 

* In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Kryten, the Hudzen-10 and possibly all Divadroid mechanoids believe in a Silicon Heaven where all mechanised objects go to their final resting place. Lister objects to this, claiming that humans just programmed that belief in. A season 6 episode also mentions Silicon Hell, as in "[[Hold Your Hippogriffs|See you in Silicon Hell]]".

** The books state that cheap and nasty appliances that couldn't possibly pose any kind of threat to Mankind don't get a belief chip installed, resulting in atheist toasters.

** "No silicon heaven? Then...where would all the calculators go?"

* ''[[Otherworld]]'' had the Church of Artificial Intelligence, whose members include both humans and a race of humanoid androids. We really don't find out much about it, but services include the use of "worship modules."