Scary Amoral Religion: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

 

 

* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] has the Yuuzhan Vong, who are in the market for a new galaxy and have just found this very nice one in which most of the inhabitants happen to depend on one of the central heresies of the Yuuzhan Vong religion—the use of non-organic technology. (Not to mention that they all have ''quite'' the wrong understanding of pain- pain is sacred and to be cherished, not avoided!) The solution? Mass xenocide. So it goes.

* The various cults from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] tend to fit this rather well. They're not usually evil per se, just like their god aren't actually evil (exept for Nyarlathotep, and even he's more of a dick than truly evil). According to one cultist being interrogated in Call of Cthulhu, the cultists wish for the Old Ones to return so that they can make mankind like them, unbound by law or morality, and free to dance, laugh and kill as they see fit.

* In [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''The Damned Trilogy,'' "The Purpose" is a religion promoted by the bad guys in which all sentient life in the Galaxy comes together in cooperation by abandoning freedom and free will. And the purpose of this cooperation? To force those species who don't necessarily want to be a part of the Purpose to join up or die.

 

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* 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.

** 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 Reimagined]]''.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The Eternal Doctrine and the Path of Now and Forever from ''[[Star Control]]'', both of which treat Ur-Quan security as paramount. The Kzer-Za's Path of Now and Forever decrees that every species is a threat to the Ur-Quan (because it might someday become too powerful if left to its own devices) and therefore must be subjugated. The Kohr-Ah Eternal Doctrine is similar, except its answer to these threats is not subjugation, it's ''annihilation''. It's all good, though — since they believe in reincarnation, species they "cleanse" will have a chance to be reborn as Ur-Quan eventually.

** Their respective philosophies are a direct result of their former slavery to the Dnyarri, who used genetic engineering to split one Ur-Quan species into two. The Kohr-Ah were soldiers, and their Eternal Doctrine reflects their simple worldview - eliminate any threat. The Kzer-Za were administrators and scientists and do not discount the benefit of having slave races and have a better understanding about controlling them. When the Kzer-Za armada surrounded the [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Syreen]] fleet (all that remained of their race) and received their surrender, they went out of their way to find them a suitable planet as the new Syreen homeworld. Also, instead of destroying all Syreen ships, they mothballed them, just in case.

* [[Halo|The Covenant]] are out to [[Kill All Humans]] because their religious leaders have declared humans to be an affront to their gods. {{spoiler|It is revealed in ''[[Contact Harvest]]'' that humans were the chosen inheiretors of [[Precursors|The Forerunners]] whom the Covenant base their faith upon, and that knowledge of this among the Covenant would have undermined the Covenant's leaders (the Prophets mostly )of their claim to power and the entire society would collapse.}}

* The Order from the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' series either falls under this trope or under [[Religion of Evil]]. Sure, their leaders Dahlia Gillespie seems to want and Claudia Wolf definitely craves a paradise for all humanity, but members like Leonard Wolf take a far more militant and unforgiving stance while even Dahlia gets at least a little giddy at the thought of a violent apocalypse. Plus it doesn't help the argument that the Order is basically well-intentioned that in ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'' it's revealed that the Order {{spoiler|runs an [[Orphanage of Fear]] that makes the [[Oliver Twist]] orphanage look like the fireworks, candy, and puppy dog store.}}

 

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