| “ | We will never advance unless you resist the urge to seek solace in fantasy. You are atheists. Peaceful, technocratic. And it's the only path to progress. | ” |
| — Mother to her Generation-1 children[src] | ||
Atheism is, in the broadest sense, an absence of belief in the existence of deities. In Raised by Wolves, the Atheists have become an united faction that opposed the Mithraic church, a religion dedicated to the sun god Sol that dominated Earth in the 22nd century. The conflict between the non-believers and the belivers, the Religious War, devastated Earth and brought the human race to the edge of extinction.[1][2]
By 2145, the Mithraic had won the Religious War and defeated the Atheists, but Earth had entered a terminal ecological decline. A select 1,000 Mithraic colonists departed for the "new world" of Kepler-22b aboard the Ark of Heaven to build a new civilization. In secret, however, the Atheist engineer Campion Sturges sent two androids and multiple human embyros to the planet Kepler-22b aboard a smaller, faster ship to start a pacifist atheist colony 12 years before the Ark would arrive.
Unknown to both the Mithraic and the android colony, the Atheists hijacked a second Mithraic colony ship, the Tarantula, and placed it in the charge of the Trust. The ship arrived at Kepler-22b only some weeks after the Ark of Heaven.[3] This Atheist collective established Atheist Colony One in Kepler-22b's tropical zone.
Overview[]
The Atheists were a technocratic, anti-religious faction that opposed the rise of the Mithraic church in the 22nd century. They considered themselves to have "opened their eyes" to the wider possibilities and truths of the universe compared to the Mithraic believers, and espoused that all human potential came from within the individual, and was not a gift from Sol or any other deity.
Unfortunately for the Atheists, the Mithraics possessed superior technology. While the Atheists rounded up orphans of the Religious War and trained them as child soldiers and suicide bombers, the Mithraics mass-produced Necromancers, an especially lethal variety of weaponized android. According to Mithraic dogma, their advanced technology was created by following formulas that had been decoded from ancient Mithraic scriptures, and these formulas were therefore gifts from heaven and proof of Sol's existence. The Atheists considered this claim to be nothing more than propaganda.
The defection of Campion Sturges from the Mithraics at some point during the war prevented the Atheists from being quickly wiped out. Sturges used his wealth and expertise with Mithraic technology to help the Atheists survive. He also built the Trust, a quantum computer that the Atheists considered to be an ideal leader for humanity since it was impartial, always truthful, and incapable of emotions.
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Mother: "Belief in the unreal can comfort the human mind, but it also weakens it. The civilization you're seeding here will be built on humanity's belief in itself, not an imagined deity."
Campion: "And if it's not imagined? They [the Mithraic] won the war, after all. What if praying will make Spiria better?"[1]
Trivia[]
- The atheists lost the Religious War on Earth.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Raised by Wolves. Raised by Wolves. Season 1. Episode 1. HBO Max.
- ↑ Pentagram. Raised by Wolves. Season 1. Episode 2. HBO Max.
- ↑ The Beginning. Raised by Wolves. Season 1. Episode 10. HBO Max.