A special three-part publication
Mar 26, 2026
Star Wars movies offer a spirituality that resonates with many religious believers, but there are downsides to studios being in the mythmaking business.
Nietzsche’s “death of God” expands online, where algorithms fracture discourse and turn shared values into divisive anti-values.
AI doomsaying mirrors religious apocalypticism, where prophets of destruction also promise salvation, revealing a faith in technology disguised as fear of it.
Teaching climate fiction helps students face loss without fatalism, imagine ethical lives, and sustain hope amid environmental crisis.
Climate skeptics, including leaders in the Pentagon, frame environmentalism as a “religion” to justify rolling back climate policy.
Del Toro revives Shelley’s myth of creation and blasphemy, but history reveals older traditions where 'playing God' was seen as sacred, not sinful.