G R O W Y O U R W I N G S

Was googling BSG just for the fun of it and ran across this blog entry:  Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer: Religion and Faith on Battlestar Galactica -- Seth Perry

It's one of the things I love about BSG--the questions of faith and religion.  This is an older blog entry--sounds like it was written during S2.  But some things I liked:

It wasn't until the recent closing episodes of the second season that the show began to really round out the religious feature of its universe. The prophecy-heavy plotline on the human side seems to have played itself out for now, and the inevitability of those prophecies appears more explicitly in question.

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Galactica has been deservedly lauded for providing a novel setting for the playing out of real-life political, social, and moral issues, which is what the best science fiction always does. With the clear infusion of questions of faith into its theological trappings, the show can explore the way religion works in the real world -- as a series of stops and starts, buoyed by faith and beset with doubt, among an assortment of individuals who believe different things to different degrees.