Another show representing religious beliefs was Joss Whedon's 'Firefly'. In the first episode 'Serenity', the main character, Malcolm Reynolds, wore a religious medallion but lost his faith after his side lost the rebellion. Years later, Book, a type of missionary, joins the crew first as a passenger and then decides to stay, since he has no real destination.
One fun interaction is between Book, and River, who is, shall we say, slightly crazy because the government played with her brain. The episode is 'Jaynestown'.
Book: What are we up to, sweetheart?
River: Fixing your Bible.
Book: I-uh-what?
River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, faulty logistics - it doesn't make sense.
Book: No,no you can't...
River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of
Eden - eleven inherent parallels already there. Eleven, important number, prime number, one goes into the house of eleven eleven times but always comes out one -
Book: River, just take it easy. You shouldn't -
River: Noah's ark is a problem -
Book: Really.
River: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon - only way to fit five-thousand species of mammal on the same boat.
Book:Gimme that! River! You don't fix the Bible!
River: It's broken. It doesn't make sense.
Book: It's not about making sense. It's about believing in something and letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about "faith". You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you.
I'd say the writer nailed part of it correctly. Faith does fix us. What is left out is the element of Christ, but the inclusion of Book in a futuristic, transplanted group of descendants from Earth, shows that in spite of the wish to destroy God, belief in Him will follow humanity to the stars.
Dialogue taken from 'Firefly, The Official Companion, Volume 2'.
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