Science fiction is the dominant religion of modernity. A lazy, wishful, and comforting extension of a default way of knowing about real things to a way of imagining nice things. Older epochs of religion simply do that with less powerful default ways of knowing
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In the 80s I was six years old watching grown ups speak in tongues and burn John Denver records in bonfires so “religious but not spiritual” still holds a fair amount of novelty for me
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