violent-darts:

mihrsuri:

iveforgottenmyusername:

jumpingjacktrash:

pipistrellus:

one thing that makes me sad about startrekverse is that alongside genuinely utopian things like “in the future there will be no poverty or hunger or crimes or illness” there is also “in the future there will be no religion” like what is this a john lennon song. i am sending you my least amused face

it saddens me that apparently a utopian future involves “”transcending”” religion which apparently universally and inherently holds humanity back?? whaaat. give me a break

i dont want to imagine a utopian SPACE FUTURE which has no, like, hijabi starfleet officers, or space rabbis bickering about what counts as “sunset” when you are on a space station. or what counts as “friday” for that matter

BUT MOST OF ALL

I DONT WANT TO IMAGINE A SPACE FUTURE IN WHICH EVERYONE DOES NOT VALIANTLY PRETEND THAT THERE IS NO ONE HOME ON THEIR STARSHIP WHEN THE MORMON MISSIONARY PODS COME BEETLING BY WITH THEIR DIGITAL PAMPHLETS

AND I AM WILLING TO BET THAT YOU DONT WANT TO IMAGINE THAT EITHER

i was nodding along all serious and then my tea came out my nose

“Captain, we’re being hailed”

“On Screen”

“Hello Captain, this is the Mormon Faith Ship Joseph Smith, have you thought about letting Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ into your life?”

“…You have reached the holographic life size double of Captain Pipistrellus, please leave a message after the beep. Um… beep?”

SPACE RABBIS THOUGH I HAVE ALL THE FEELINGS (also Jewish Julian Bashir like thank you @cosmictuesdays for inspiring me in this I just…I love it). And look my people (Jewish, Iranian/Syrian) are absolutely going to be debating what counts as sunset and whether or not a food is kosher and 😀

I want to see where pantheistic paganism goes when we have more than one planet, dude. 

I also want to see the polytheists who are completely unfazed by the Prophets, and the syncretic practice people who adopt Kahless into their pantheons, and whether or not that offends or delights the Klingons or if the Klingons can even decide. 

What happens with gods who are so intensely astrally associated when you’re no longer anywhere near That Sun or Those Planets or That Moon? I mean I know what happens with MY type of faith, but what about the others? Is Sol particularly special? Or is Apollo the god of ALL suns? 

@lauraantoniou