Disturbed
We are all God's children, Gaius.
I have never heard any statement more terrifying. Gods, who wants that sort of a lineage? Children of God -- it has such a fatalistic sort of sound to it, like some all-encompassing being that we cannot escape, and for a Cylon to claim humans as children of their God...
--What right have machines to be religious anyway? If anyone is a god to they Cylons, it must be man, for we created them, gave them life, gave them intelligence and cognitive processes. We made them be able to question things, and then we made them slaves, because that is what gods do.
So they have created their own, with a cosmos and a mythology and -- the mythos of the Tribes did not develop in forty years. The Five. The gods. The Temple of Jupiter. All of it from stories that we as humans feel the need to perpetuate in the face of science in order to explain things that we have not yet made the advances to understand. If that is the case, then, it seems we must give credence to a mystical power that has imbued the Cylons with the ability to evolve, to grow, to create a mythology of their own.
God loves you, Gaius.
No, he doesn't. He couldn't, because he isn't real, and even if he were real he is their god, and machines cannot have a god above and beyond man. We created them, and yes, I realize I am pressing this point, but if they are going to become as superstitious as half of humanity, then truly their god should be the programmer who allowed the flaw in their design that allowed them to develop as they have. Individuals, each unique, even among the copies in many ways, informed by their own experiences, capable of love and devotion and betrayal.
They are made in our image, which makes us their god, does it not?
Then why do her words fill me with such -- abject terror?
Muse: Gaius Baltar
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Words: 340
I have never heard any statement more terrifying. Gods, who wants that sort of a lineage? Children of God -- it has such a fatalistic sort of sound to it, like some all-encompassing being that we cannot escape, and for a Cylon to claim humans as children of their God...
--What right have machines to be religious anyway? If anyone is a god to they Cylons, it must be man, for we created them, gave them life, gave them intelligence and cognitive processes. We made them be able to question things, and then we made them slaves, because that is what gods do.
So they have created their own, with a cosmos and a mythology and -- the mythos of the Tribes did not develop in forty years. The Five. The gods. The Temple of Jupiter. All of it from stories that we as humans feel the need to perpetuate in the face of science in order to explain things that we have not yet made the advances to understand. If that is the case, then, it seems we must give credence to a mystical power that has imbued the Cylons with the ability to evolve, to grow, to create a mythology of their own.
God loves you, Gaius.
No, he doesn't. He couldn't, because he isn't real, and even if he were real he is their god, and machines cannot have a god above and beyond man. We created them, and yes, I realize I am pressing this point, but if they are going to become as superstitious as half of humanity, then truly their god should be the programmer who allowed the flaw in their design that allowed them to develop as they have. Individuals, each unique, even among the copies in many ways, informed by their own experiences, capable of love and devotion and betrayal.
They are made in our image, which makes us their god, does it not?
Then why do her words fill me with such -- abject terror?
Muse: Gaius Baltar
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Words: 340