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* The Skrulls of [[Marvel Comics]]' ''Secret Invasion'' claim that they own the earth because their religion says they do.
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* In the classic [[Star Trek]] / [[Babylon 5]] crossover story, ''A Thin Veneer'', the Ashen are an offshoot of the Minbari who literally worship the Vorlons as Gods. Their religion tells them that they are the most superior beings in the Galaxy because of this, and that they cannot be defeated thusly. They hold onto this view even as the Federation constantly [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomps]] them.
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* The atomic-bomb worshipping mutants from ''[[Planet of the Apes|Battle for the
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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes "Bad Wolf" and "Parting of the Ways", the Daleks seem to be worshipping the idea of their own perfection. The fact that the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy absolutely horrifies the Doctor.
* The Goa'uld and their followers in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' fit this trope pretty well but the Ori fit it even better, all the way down to disputes over the meaning of symbolic passages in the very King James-sounding Book of Origin. The Goa'uld aren't so much dogmatic as create dogma around themselves to control their underlings. The Ori, on the other hand...
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* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the Minbari war against humanity was seen as religious crusade to avenge their "holy leader" after his death in a botched [[First Contact]] encounter.
** On a lesser scale, an alien couple murdered their child after he underwent surgery, because their faith declared that it made him "empty".
* The Soldiers of the One in ''[[Caprica]]'' are a monotheistic cult in a polytheistic society that believes in absolute black and white morality, and some of their branches are perfectly willing to practice suicide bombings for their beliefs, while the others quietly approve of their actions. It also seems that the Cylons inherited some of their ideology and dogma, and used it to justify the attempted destruction of the human race in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
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