Timeline for Did any Star Trek actors have issues with the anti-religious nature of the series?
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| Jun 8, 2021 at 17:47 | comment | added | JohnHunt | @lucasbachmann; I can tell you that Pope JPII acknowledged that The Son Of God could do his thing on alien species. He noted that Jesus died for the Sins Of Humanity, and that this might not cover other sentient species. TV regulated christian content pretty heavily. My guess is that this was to avoid the demonstrated displeasure of a heavily christian, even fundamentalist, audience. | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 6:40 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | @jim I wonder how space Jesus for space Rome really played with a religious audience. The idea itself would be presumably quite dissonant to an actual christian. Despite Kirk and crew seeming in awe of the idea of a duplicate christiantiy rising - ultimately it is nothing more than another Roman motif - a phase Romans go through. While a Jesus for each planet or a Jesus that goes from one planet to another occurs in science fiction often enough - theologically it is difficult. I recall a story about a starship that frantically goes from planet to planet always just missing Jesus. | |
| Jun 7, 2021 at 14:11 | history | edited | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2021 at 8:37 | comment | added | jim | In the episode "Bread and Circuses", there was a reference made to "The Children of the Sun" which confused Spock, but near the end it was realised that it meant to "The Children of the Son", with Kirk commenting "Caesar and Christ. They had them both. And the Word is spreading only now." | |
| Jun 7, 2021 at 4:02 | history | answered | JohnHunt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |