History Main / ScaryAmoralReligion

** Come [[Fallout4 Fallout 4]] and the Children have become this as well. Having spread to the Commonwealth, the Children of Atom have become militant and dangerous to the people of the wastes, armed with both conventional weaponry and radiation inducing weapons. They even [[spoiler: have a nuclear missile in the Glowing Sea, ready to launch into the Commonwealth]] in the name of their insane, radiation centered beliefs.

* The Order from the ''SilentHill'' series either falls under this trope or under ReligionOfEvil. 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 well-intentioned that in ''SilentHill4'' it's revealed that the Order [[spoiler: runs an OrphanageOfFear that makes the ''Literature/OliverTwist'' orphanage look like the fireworks, candy, and puppy dog store.]]

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* The Eternal Doctrine and the Path of Now and Forever from ''StarControl'', 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.

* The Skrulls of MarvelComics' ''SecretInvasion'' claim that they own the earth because their religion says they do.

* The Soldiers of the One in ''Series/{{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 commit suicide bombings for their beliefs, while the others quietly approve of their actions. Later the Cylons inherited the religion and used it to justify the attempted destruction of the human race in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.

* [[Franchise/{{Halo}} The Covenant]] are out to KillAllHumans because their religious leaders have declared humans to be an affront to their gods. [[spoiler: It is revealed in ''ContactHarvest'' that humans were the chosen inheritors of [[{{Precursors}} The Forerunners]] whom the Covenant base their faith upon. Widespread, this knowledge would have either undermined the power of the Prophets or caused societal collapse]].

* [[{{Halo}} The Covenant]] are out to KillAllHumans because their religious leaders have declared humans to be an affront to their gods. [[spoiler: It is revealed in ''ContactHarvest'' that humans were the chosen inheritors of [[{{Precursors}} The Forerunners]] whom the Covenant base their faith upon. Widespread, this knowledge would have either undermined the power of the Prophets or caused societal collapse]].

** Originally, the Tal'darim protoss faction from ''Starcraft II'' were the KnightTemplar flavour of this trope, in that they were territorial and aggressive and felt no remorse about killing the player's forces in missions pitched against them, but they had the legitimate grievance that the protagonists were explicitly showing up to steal their artifacts and possessions to sell for profit, and the beings they worship, the Xel'Naga, are definitely benevolent entities. They were pretty much the LawfulEvil BlackSheep of the protoss race, who are otherwise [[AlwaysLawfulGood reasonable, honourable and stand-up people]]. [[spoiler:At least they were until the ''Heart of the Swarm'' expansion pack, which clarified that they worship the TokenEvilTeammate of the Xel'naga pantheon - Amon, the Fallen One, which upgraded them to a RelgionOfEvil.]]

* The atomic-bomb worshipping mutants from ''Battle for the PlanetOfTheApes''.

* 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 commit suicide bombings for their beliefs, while the others quietly approve of their actions. Later the Cylons inherited the religion and used it to justify the attempted destruction of the human race in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' 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.

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the Jem'Hadar worship the Founders of the Dominion as gods, and see the war on the Alpha Quadrant as a holy crusade. The Founders are said to have an innate need for order and conformity, and the avowed mission of their crusade is to bring this order to the untidy quadrant-next-door.

** The Minbari war against humanity was seen as religious crusade to avenge their "holy leader" after his death in a botched FirstContact encounter.
** On a lesser scale, an alien couple murdered their child after he underwent surgery, because their faith declared that cutting into their body 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 ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.

** The Tau are arguably a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], being a race of {{Flat Earth Atheist}}s in a setting where literal daemons are an active force. They are regarded by the Imperium as being completely heathen, believing in no supernatural forces whatsoever. However, they are also philosophists, following strongly to a collectivist creed of striving for the Greater Good, beliving that they should share this philosophy with every other sentient in the galaxy and that UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans in doing so. This tends to put them squarely into ScaryDogmaticAliens trope, but with the twist that their dogma is secular in a setting where supernatural forces are real.

* The Order from the ''SilentHill'' series either falls under this trope or under ReligionOfEvil. 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 well-intentioned that in ''SilentHill4'' it's revealed that the Order [[spoiler: runs an OrphanageOfFear that makes the OliverTwist orphanage look like the fireworks, candy, and puppy dog store.]]

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* {{ComicBook/Batwoman}}: Has the Religion of Crime Sect. While the regular church falls under ReligionOfEvil, the Sect that recurs in the series falls under this trope. The leader, Kyle Abbot broke off from the original group because a difference of ideals (that and the original group's association with Apokalips would lead to disastrous consequences for the earth). While the still worship Crime, their doctrine isn't elaborated on, and Abbot always appears as an ally to Batwoman in her ongoing, standing with her against the monsters summoned by the BigBad and even bringing the whole sect to aid her in the final battle.

* In AlanDeanFoster'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.

If the long-term goals of the religion's dogma include freeing their GodOfEvil from his long imprisonment so that he may resume his reign of terror, then they're doing so not because they're [[PathOfInspiration deluded into believing]] that [[CorruptChurch their god is made out of happiness and rainbows]] or because they plan to become his unholy rampaging army when he returns. Instead, they probably don't have any long-term plans once the [[CosmicKeystone magical shackles]] are broken. There may be a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, but it's the god's revenge, not the worshippers'.

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* The Goa'uld and their followers in ''StargateSG1'' 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...