Cylon religion

Religious pluralism plays out strangely in Hollywood and various writers' versions of it. I should really write a blog post about this someday. In Spielberg's Indiana Jones universe, pretty much all religions are true (the violated Ark of the Covenant releases death-angels; the Sankara/Sivalinga stones restore life to an Indian village; the Holy Grail miraculously heals Henry Jones's bullet wound; aliens take off in a catastrophic, Book of Job-like whirlwind and disappear into some other aspect of space-time), and there are funky, "extra-dimensional" aliens as well. In George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe, there are competing religions, some of which are magically efficacious (the religion of the Old Gods, the religion of R'hllor and the Red Priests, the Ironborn's religion of the Drowned God), and some of which are little more than ineffectual window dressing (the Faith of the Seven, with the possible exception of the Braavosi mysticism that gave rise to the Faceless Men, with its concentration on The Stranger, a.k.a. death). In the universe of "Battlestar Galactica," if you include the lore from the spinoff series Caprica (which lasted only one season), there are strains of human polytheism, a minority monotheistic religion adopted by the Cylons, plus varying degrees of atheism and agnosticism. In the Star Wars universe beyond the films, there are different schools of thought interpreting the Force in their own ways—schools that go far beyond mere Jedi and Sith. But in none of these worlds is there the explosion of religious variety we see on our own Earth. That said, the video below does a decent job of introducing the uninitiated to the religion of the Cylons (sometimes referred to collectively as the Cylon). Enjoy.