The New Polytheists

Beliefnet lets us know that the new Battlestar Galactica is about religion. Specifically polytheism vs. monotheism, and guess what? The monotheists are the bad guys this time.

“The refugee humans, the Colonials, are polytheists in the mold of the Romans and Greeks, while their creations, the mechanical Cylons, have a strict belief in a singular God and in the soul, and are on a mission to eradicate the non-believing humans. “I sort of assumed that the Colonials would have a belief system and figured it would probably be polytheistic, that seemed to be what they referred to in the original,? explains Moore. “But it wasn?t really until relatively late in the game that I sort of randomly gave the Cylons a belief system.”…”There came this notion of this outside monotheistic belief of the one true God that could not tolerate others, that started to drive out pagan worship and that fit very nicely with what we were doing with the show.” Among the show’s human beings, there are those who believe in the gods, the Lords of Kobol, and those who are atheists.”

Also check out the interview with show producer Ron Moore.

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