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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 916073" data-attributes="member: 463">As an atheist myself, like JMS, JMS' treating of Earth religions with respect - including future-fictional ones, presumably - never bothered me.&nbsp; The Minbari and some other alien religions In think get a fair amount of sympathetic treatment in B5, also.&nbsp; Of course, none of them are being presented as literally 'true' - and there's a strong if sometimes subtle implication that many or all of the more revelatory/transcendent ones are works of Vorlon psycho-historical manipulation, also.&nbsp; He could have created a world where future real-world religions were engaged in blood-crazed jihads against each other, but that wouldn't make much sense for the B5 universe where for plot purposes the humans need to be capable of the role of neutral mediators - ie humans _need_ to be more tolerant &amp; reasonable than most other species, or the plot doesn't work.&nbsp; I agree this is a similar notion to Trek's; and the differences in seeing how it's handled are one of B5's interesting features.&nbsp; Note that in B5 humans, while apparently developing a greater degree of mutual tolerance/respect than now, don't seem nearly as homogenous as in Star Trek.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 916073, member: 463"] As an atheist myself, like JMS, JMS' treating of Earth religions with respect - including future-fictional ones, presumably - never bothered me. The Minbari and some other alien religions In think get a fair amount of sympathetic treatment in B5, also. Of course, none of them are being presented as literally 'true' - and there's a strong if sometimes subtle implication that many or all of the more revelatory/transcendent ones are works of Vorlon psycho-historical manipulation, also. He could have created a world where future real-world religions were engaged in blood-crazed jihads against each other, but that wouldn't make much sense for the B5 universe where for plot purposes the humans need to be capable of the role of neutral mediators - ie humans _need_ to be more tolerant & reasonable than most other species, or the plot doesn't work. I agree this is a similar notion to Trek's; and the differences in seeing how it's handled are one of B5's interesting features. Note that in B5 humans, while apparently developing a greater degree of mutual tolerance/respect than now, don't seem nearly as homogenous as in Star Trek. [/QUOTE]

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