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Originally Posted by willravel
Picard was an agnostic*, but his lack of respect for Q was what allowed him to separate Q from the concept of god.
* In season 2, episode 2, "Where Silence Has Lease", an entity introducing itself as Nagilum took the form of Data to ask Picard about his thoughts on death. Picard readily explains that he recognizes that there is a complexity to the universe that everything has a purpose, but he avoids the idea of an afterlife altogether.
In season 6, episode 15, Picard is heavily injured in an attack, and he either hallucinates or dies and meets Q. Q introduced himself as god, but Picard say if there is a god, Q isn't it.
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I dont think this proves Picard was an agnostic, you could believe in God and not in an afterlife. That really wasnt the point of my post anyway, StarTrek is a fictional series and Picard is a fictional character (although some may disagree!
) It was just an example of a an omnipotent species that was godlike, but wasnt God. I suppose the more advanced a species, the more advanced your "God" must be. The Q would have made a sufficent "God" to stone age humans, but nowadays....you gotta do better than that!
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