Doesn't that kinda make Scar correct in his dismissal of Mufasa and Simba and make him the good guy? And yes I'm aware some societies had adoptable heirs, like the Roman emperors.
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Star Trek has done this. Probably a few times.
Kai Winn in DS9 is a miserable busybody cat lady because she's never actually had any spiritual experiences with the wormhole aliens the Bajorans call The Prophets.
These are known deities that multiple characters meet and interact with, who for centuries would basically send Bajor voicemail in the form of the Orbs. Using one of these would have different effects depending on precisely which one it was, but it included time travel, vision quests, and a whole slew of other things due to the non corporeal and non linear existence of the Prophets who could both perceive and manipulate the galaxy in ways beyond understanding. They even flat out delete an entire Dominion fleet at one point. They really are God-like in what they can do, however extremely detached from reality because they neither exist in it or experience it the same way any of the cast do.
Which leads to Kai Winn being the person she is, and taking the actions she does. She hooks up with the evil versions of the Prophets, the Pah-Wraith, because the Prophets never spoke to her. But the Prophets never speak to her because they know she eventually hooks up with the Pah-Wraith... 🙄
She's entirely a villain of their own making and everything she does which almost leads to the destruction of the Prophets, Bajor, DS9, and the galaxy could have been avoided if the Prophets understood their own lack of awareness of time and linear existence.
It's a slightly different twist on someone using time travel and going back to meet someone they know to be bad only to be the catalyst that makes said person bad in the first place, but it's still the same general principle of using foreknowledge to create a predestination paradox.
Unfortunately, Kai Winn is a basically just an insert for "religion is bad, m'kay" logic that the liberals who watch the show believe. Star Trek normally fails when it comes to religion, and DS9 is the series that actively tries to force the writers to try and give religion some value in the universe, and they still can't help themselves but insert a "evil conservative" character into show that has no redeeming qualities and is the cause of all problems.
I've never seen a Star Trek, but reading his description really jumped out to me as some Leftist's idea of how people who "don't hear god talk to them" become evil over it because they are obsessive dumb religoids. So I guess its spoton as what they always do.
Religion ends up being a corrupting influence to the Left, the same way every totalitarian ideology does. Frankly, it's what happened to a lot of atheists.
I always considered the atheists who adopted Leftism to (as many have pointed out) swapped one religion for another. In the atheist cultural experience, you would say these people didn't engage in "Deconversion".
Deconversion is the actual process of truly leaving all religious behavior and magical thinking. It is a point where I would agree with the edge lords on Reddit that if someone claimed they were an atheist and found God, it's because they weren't really an atheist because they didn't engage in deconversion.
What that really looks like is that you genuinely don't replace God with anything, you drop the concept altogether. You don't search for a replacement, because you don't actually need one at all. You have to actually place the mantel of moral responsibility onto yourself and deal with it in an appropriate manner.
But, because Leftists always shirk responsibility, particularly moral responsibility to deontological assertions and historical meta-narratives, they never actually de-convert from religious thinking. In fact, they engage in worse magical thinking than some of the worst religious zealots. They are the ones dragging Carrie into the closet.
Ironically, only an atheist would be so narcissistic and delusional to think such a thing is possible.
Psychology is filled with concepts and names of fundamental human mental traits that are magic thinking in all its forms, and while it doesn't name drop religion specifically it sets all the foundations for how religion comes to be. The Fundamental Attribution Error and Loci of Control are two that comes to mind immediately, and I'm sure I could pull more if given a refresher (its been a long time, I'm losing my education from disuse).
It is inherently anti-science to think such a thing is possible, because it denies Psychology as a whole to basically say "nu uh I'm more special." Which is the same traits they decry in religious folks.
Its in this way they leave themselves so open to that Leftist indoctrination, because they keep cutting off the branches (religion and God) while ignoring the roots (human instincts) that are easily hijacked once those branches are out of the way. Even worse, because they think themselves above it and absolved of the "silly superstitions" they pay less attention to those roots and their effects.
I wouldn't entirely say that, especially when you have multiple foil examples of religious figures who aren't assholes and do challenge Winn quite often (Bareil, Opaka, Sisko to some extent).
She is however playing a somewhat common kind of villain though. The uptight, controlling, power hungry, self-serving, finger wagging sort of virtue-signaling villain who tries to pretend like they're a self-sacrificing hero for the people.
In a way she's practically reprising her role as the bitch-nurse from One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest.
I agree that it's not entirely that, because after Gene Roddenberry died, they tried to add depth to the character. I think Gene couldn't see the character outside of his bias.
While I'm sure in her (character's) mind that's true, the more likely truth is that she came up with that as an excuse for her being a miserable cunt, long after a lifetime of actively choosing to be a miserable cunt. She just doesn't want to admit that she's simply a terrible person.
Dukat's character followed a largely similar pattern. Trying to lay every possible thing out there to blame instead of himself for how he managed the station during the occupation. Coming up with rationalization after rationalization for why he does such slimy shit, like constantly trying to use his position of power to seduce and bone Bajoran women. Why he treats his own daughter like shit. Etc etc etc.
It's something that we can see in common with deranged political sorts (especially on the left today), who'll excuse every possible failing they have and mistake they make, claiming it's for the greater good. And lying through their teeth about just about everything for as long as they draw breath.