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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2446694" data-attributes="member: 14159">I don't think the visions came from the Cylons, because the Cylons appear to want Roslin dead.  Remember that back to the mini-series, Aaron Doral, the person on Colonial One who kept trying to convince her not to order the FTL jump even as the cylons were bearing down, the one who was being obstructive and obstinate the moment Roslin started to take command in the aftermath and prevent her from taking command.  He turned out to be a Cylon infiltrator just a few episodes in.  Thus if the Cylons had their way, Colonial One and Roslin would have been wiped out in the initial strike when it didn't FTL jump when she ordered it to as the Cylons were bearing down on them.  The Cylon centurions also fired on Roslin in last week's episode, literally missing her by less than an inch as they shot through her clothes and missed her.As for the dangers of a government lead by religious ideology, a good chunk of human governments in the real world are lead significantly, if not primarily by religous motivations and with religious beliefs in place of scientific ones (I'll not mention anything specific to try and keep this away from No Politics/No Religion), but it's another level of realism in the series that the Colonials are also guided by their faith as much as they are their logic, and sometimes the two clash, sometimes explosively (Roslin is Faith, Adama is Logic).Of course, the fact that the ancient prophecy seems to precisely fit Roslin's condition (the last leader of humanity leading it to a new home, not living to see the new homeland, right down to the details of the visions).  It looks like a sci-fi analogy of the story of Moses actually (given that the original name for BSG was "Adam's Ark" when it was first concieved in '69, with Adama literally being a slight renaming of Adam, and the show always having this theme, it fits perfectly).The idea of perfectly atheistic futuristic human governments lead by an infallible belief in science may work in Star Trek, but it's not very realistic, and it's way against the grain for BSG.</blockquote>

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