History PlayingWith / OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions

** People with a grasp on logic call out successfully society on how hypocritical and lacking in common sense favoring some superstitions over others is.

** Somebody discovers a long-forgotten religious text. He reads it, becomes engrossed with it, and begins preaching it's tenats in public. This leads to a massive religious revival.

* '''Exaggerated''': In an advanced civilization, people have all but forgotten that religion ever existed.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** The Revival Leader and his followers are all arrested and thrown in an incinerator by the police.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Religion ebbs and flows, and events that are MaybeMagicMaybeMundane never get fully explained.

** Old superstitutions are replaced by new superstitions which the 'advanced society' claims are different somehow.

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''':
** The loss of religion has terrible social and political ramifications, as the civilization begins moving the passion and devotion once associated with religion into secular belief systems, resulting in crusades as violent as the days of old.
** Alternatively, there is no religion in society because the society is TheEmpire or the PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny and religion is brutally and violently suppressed by those in power who view it as a threat.
** Alternatively: The reason why the people had stopped to believe in religion was because they found out that their "holy men" were corrupt, hypocritical and power-hungry, causing them to lose their faith.
* '''Reconstructed''': Secular programs devoted towards bettering society replace religion, avoiding the aforementioned terrible social and political ramifications.

* '''Exaggerated''': In an advanced civilization, having a religion is punished by death.

** An advanced civilization considers religion to be a quaint relic of the past. [[EldritchAbomination Something]] [[PhysicalGod else]] begs to differ.

* '''Reconstructed''': Secular programs devoted towards bettering society replace religion, avoiding the inevitable terrible social and political ramifications.

** Thanks to the new crap they have in the future, they no longer find religion a big deal.

** "We've outgrown those silly superstitions. Now we all know that [[{{Scientology}} Xenu]] is the true god."

* *The loss of religion has terrible social and political ramifications, as the civilization begins moving the passion and devotion once associated with religion into secular belief systems, resulting in crusades as violent as the days of old.

* '''Justified''': The advent of space travel, along with several other social factors, eroded religion to nothingness in this advanced civilization.

* '''Inverted''': The advanced civilization is more deeply spiritual than we are now.

* '''Downplayed''': Religion still exists in a highly advanced civilization, but since faith is seen as a more personal thing, open displays of belief are rare.
* '''Subverted''': An advanced civilization considers religion to be a quaint relic of the past. [[EldritchAbomination Something]] [[PhysicalGod else]] begs to differ.

*** "We've outgrown those silly superstitions. Now we all know that [[{{Scientology}} Xenu]] is the true god."

* '''Double Subverted''': Upon discovering [[EldritchAbomination something powerful enough to justifiably call itself a god]], the people of the advanced civilization [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch it out]].
** Alternately, the civilization's religion(s) turn out to be the worshipers of [[NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus something easily explained by the science of the future]].
* '''Parodied''': The civilization's people are {{Flat Earth Atheist}}s who deal with PsychicPowers, {{Physical God}}s, and the afterlife every day, but constantly find some ridiculous way to rationalize their way around it.

* '''Deconstructed''': The loss of religion has terrible social and political ramifications, as the civilization begins moving the passion and devotion once associated with religion into secular belief systems, resulting in crusades as violent as the days of old.
** Alternatively, there is no religion in society because the society is TheEmpire or the PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny and religion is brutally and violently suppressed by those in power who view it as a threat.
** Alternatively: The reason why the people had stopped to believe in religion was because they found out that their "holy men" were corrupt, hypocritical and powerhungry, causing them to lose their faith.
* '''Reconstructed''': Secular programs devoted towards bettering society replace religion, avoiding the inevitable terrible social and political ramifications.

* '''Enforced''': The author of the work is an atheist, and assumes [[AuthorTract any advanced civilization would necessarily abandon religion]].

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** [[SouthPark Atheist Fanatics form different sects and go to war with each other over science.]]

** Alternatively, there is no religion in society because the society is TheEmpire or the [=~People's Republic Of Tyranny~=] and religion is brutally and violently suppressed by those in power who view it as a threat.

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* '''Downplayed''': Religion still exists in a highly advanced civilization, but since faith is seen as a more personal thing, open display of belief are rare.

* '''Downplayed''': Religion still exists in a highly advanced civilization, but since faith is seen as a personal thing, open display of belief are rare.

** The advanced civilization considers disbelief in religion to be quaint and unreasonable.

* '''Subverted''': An advanced civilization considers religion to be a quaint relic of the past. [[EldritchAbomination Something else]] begs to differ.