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* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': In ''ComicBook/Aquaman2011'', belief does this to the people of Atlantis. Years of hatred, arrogance, bigotry and paranoid delusions have made them believe just about anything and everything horrible about the surface world and its people. A [[HiddenAgendaVillain mystic cabal]] from a separate dimension used this in their attempt to overtake the main DC universe by turning the people and the Atlantean army against their king.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The Adeptus Mechanicus believe that all knowledge ''already exists'', and that it must be found from ruins of the past rather than reinvented. They tend to call any new technologies, human or alien, heresy unless they can be called a "modification" of an existing STC technology. The Predator Annihilator is a well known example of this. In this case, though, they're kinda right, because the majority of human technological prowess was lost during the Age of Strife, and they're trying to recover it from various Forge Worlds. Besides the trauma of the many horrific technologies that were used during the Age of Strife itself, a major contributing factor to the terrible damage said age caused upon the old human interstellar civilization was the preceding [[RobotWar war with the Men of Iron]], which explains why the Martian Tech-priests and the Imperium in general are so wary [[ScienceIsBad to the point of superstition of the very concept of scientific innovation]], and why they renamed the pre-Age of Strife period from "'''Golden''' Age of Technology" as it was called back then to "'''Dark''' Age of Technology". They're terrified that someone would unleash another technological catastrophe that may very well finish off what the Men of Iron and the Age of Strife started.
** Their behavior towards the Necrons is a shining example of this. What do you do when there's an army of dormant killbots that's lain undisturbed for countless millennia? Why, wake them up to revere them and then act surprised when they get disintegrated to a man (and if they're told not to, [[Literature/CiaphasCain by someone who actually knows what he's talking about]], they go and do it anyway). Not helping this is the all-but-stated fact that the Omnissiah they worship (as an aspect of the Emperor, to keep the Inquisition off their backs) is in fact the Void Dragon, one of the Necrons' gods.
** Even the mainline [[CrystalDragonJesus Imperial Church]] has this. [[InvokedTrope One of their creeds]] is "Blessed is the mind too small for doubt."
** The Warhammer 40000 universe plays with this trope, because there is actually little space for belief. All tenets of religion ([[PhysicalGod the existence of God-Emperor and ruinous powers of Chaos to name a few]]) are based on fact. The members of the clergy (especially members of the Inquisition and the Adeptus Mechanicus) are usually the best-educated people around.
** The Emperor, agreeing with this trope, outlawed any form of faith so human belief wouldn't empower Chaos anymore. Not only did it not work as faith is only a part of Chaos, as it feeds on emotions as well, but also [[NiceJobBreakingItHero let everybody in the dark about the existence of nasty dark gods and demons be vulnerable to their offers of attaining great power for a terrible price]]. This led to the Literature/HorusHeresy.
** The Sisters of Battle tend to let their faith and holy zeal overcome their tactical sense, leading to getting slaughtered pointlessly.
** This is the general view of the Tau Empire. Their species has an innate resistance to the Warp that basically makes them immune to the psychic temptations and explosions that plague humanity (and don't even use Warp travel), so they simply don't get that the powers of Chaos are real, writing off daemons appearing in realspace as a particularly unpleasant species of alien.
** And then there's the orks, though in their case it's more being naturally stupid and their belief being a collective psychic power that occasionally fails entertainingly, so it's all good (they've gone to war over which of their twin gods is which, [[BloodKnight and couldn't care less]]).
** The Imperials with the most single-minded devotion to the Emperor are the Ogryns, a human subspecies of very stupid giants that require surgery just to rise to childlike intelligence and also possess unquestioning faith in the GodEmperor. Where regular humans fall to Chaos to satisfy their ambition or bloodlust, Ogryns are basically tricked into thinking the Emperor doesn't like their manipulator's enemies.
** The Adeptus Mechanicus believe that all knowledge ''already exists'', and that it must be found from ruins of the past rather than reinvented. They tend to call any new technologies, human or alien, heresy unless they can be called a "modification" of an existing STC technology. The Predator Annihilator is a well known example of this. In this case, though, they're kinda right, because the majority of human technological prowess was lost during the Age of Strife, and they're trying to recover it from various Forge Worlds. Besides the trauma of the many horrific technologies that were used during the Age of Strife itself, a major contributing factor to the terrible damage said age caused upon the old human interstellar civilization was the preceding [[RobotWar war with the Men of Iron]], which explains why the Martian Tech-priests and the Imperium in general are so wary [[ScienceIsBad to the point of superstition of the very concept of scientific innovation]], and why they renamed the pre-Age of Strife period from "'''Golden''' Age of Technology" as it was called back then to "'''Dark''' Age of Technology". They're terrified that someone would unleash another technological catastrophe that may very well finish off what the Men of Iron and the Age of Strife started.
** Their behavior towards the Necrons is a shining example of this. What do you do when there's an army of dormant killbots that's lain undisturbed for countless millennia? Why, wake them up to revere them and then act surprised when they get disintegrated to a man (and if they're told not to, [[Literature/CiaphasCain by someone who actually knows what he's talking about]], they go and do it anyway). Not helping this is the all-but-stated fact that the Omnissiah they worship (as an aspect of the Emperor, to keep the Inquisition off their backs) is in fact the Void Dragon, one of the Necrons' gods.
** Even the mainline [[CrystalDragonJesus Imperial Church]] has this. [[InvokedTrope One of their creeds]] is "Blessed is the mind too small for doubt."
** The Warhammer 40000 universe plays with this trope, because there is actually little space for belief. All tenets of religion ([[PhysicalGod the existence of God-Emperor and ruinous powers of Chaos to name a few]]) are based on fact. The members of the clergy (especially members of the Inquisition and the Adeptus Mechanicus) are usually the best-educated people around.
** The Emperor, agreeing with this trope, outlawed any form of faith so human belief wouldn't empower Chaos anymore. Not only did it not work as faith is only a part of Chaos, as it feeds on emotions as well, but also [[NiceJobBreakingItHero let everybody in the dark about the existence of nasty dark gods and demons be vulnerable to their offers of attaining great power for a terrible price]]. This led to the Literature/HorusHeresy.
** The Sisters of Battle tend to let their faith and holy zeal overcome their tactical sense, leading to getting slaughtered pointlessly.
** This is the general view of the Tau Empire. Their species has an innate resistance to the Warp that basically makes them immune to the psychic temptations and explosions that plague humanity (and don't even use Warp travel), so they simply don't get that the powers of Chaos are real, writing off daemons appearing in realspace as a particularly unpleasant species of alien.
** And then there's the orks, though in their case it's more being naturally stupid and their belief being a collective psychic power that occasionally fails entertainingly, so it's all good (they've gone to war over which of their twin gods is which, [[BloodKnight and couldn't care less]]).
** The Imperials with the most single-minded devotion to the Emperor are the Ogryns, a human subspecies of very stupid giants that require surgery just to rise to childlike intelligence and also possess unquestioning faith in the GodEmperor. Where regular humans fall to Chaos to satisfy their ambition or bloodlust, Ogryns are basically tricked into thinking the Emperor doesn't like their manipulator's enemies.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
**40000}}'': One of the many, many things the setting satirizes is religious fundementalism, so this trope crops up a quite a bit. The Adeptus religion of the GodEmperor and the Cult Mechanicus both outright encourage their followers to believe that unquestioningly, and to treat all knowledge ''already exists'', and that it must be found from ruins of doubt as a crime punishable by death. New ideas, attempts to understand the past rather than reinvented. They tend to call any new technologies, human or alien, heresy unless they can be called a "modification" of an existing STC technology. The Predator Annihilator is a well known example of this. In this case, though, they're kinda right, because the majority of human technological prowess was lost during the Age of Strife, and they're trying to recover it from various Forge Worlds. Besides the trauma of the many horrific technologies that were used during the Age of Strife itself, a major contributing factor to the terrible damage said age caused upon the old human interstellar civilization was the preceding [[RobotWar war with the Men of Iron]], which explains why the Martian Tech-priests and the Imperium in general are so wary [[ScienceIsBad to the point of superstition of the very concept of scientific innovation]], and why they renamed the pre-Age of Strife period from "'''Golden''' Age of Technology" as it was called back then to "'''Dark''' Age of Technology". They're terrified that someone would unleash another technological catastrophe that may very well finish off what the Men of Iron and the Age of Strife started.
** Their behavior towards the Necrons is a shining example of this. What do you do when there's an army of dormant killbots that's lain undisturbed for countless millennia? Why, wake them up to revere them and then act surprised when they get disintegrated to a man (and if they're told not to, [[Literature/CiaphasCain by someone who actually knows what he's talking about]], they go and do it anyway). Not helping this is the all-but-stated fact that the Omnissiah they worship (as an aspect of the Emperor, to keep the Inquisition off their backs) is in fact the Void Dragon, one of the Necrons' gods.
** Even the mainline [[CrystalDragonJesus Imperial Church]] has this. [[InvokedTrope Oneperspective of their creeds]] is "Blessed is the mind too small for doubt."
** The Warhammer 40000 universe plays with this trope, because there is actually little space for belief. All tenets of religion ([[PhysicalGod the existence of God-Emperor and ruinous powers of Chaos to name a few]]) are based on fact. The members of the clergy (especially members of the Inquisitionenemies, and the Adeptus Mechanicus) invention of new techologies are usually the best-educated people around.
** The Emperor, agreeing with this trope, outlawed any form of faith so human belief wouldn't empower Chaos anymore. Not only did it not work as faith is only a part of Chaos, as it feeds on emotions as well, but also [[NiceJobBreakingItHero let everybody in the dark about the existence of nasty dark gods and demons be vulnerable to their offers of attaining great power for a terrible price]]. This led to the Literature/HorusHeresy.
** The Sisters of Battle tend to let their faith and holy zeal overcome their tactical sense, leading to getting slaughtered pointlessly.
** This is the general view of the Tau Empire. Their species has an innate resistance to the Warp that basically makes them immune to the psychic temptations and explosions that plague humanity (and don't even use Warp travel), so they simply don't get that the powers of Chaos are real, writing off daemons appearing in realspace as a particularly unpleasant species of alien.
** And then there's the orks, though in their case it's more being naturally stupid and their belief being a collective psychic power that occasionally fails entertainingly, so it's all good (they've gone to war over which of their twin gods is which, [[BloodKnight and couldn't care less]]).
** The Imperials with the most single-minded devotion to the Emperor are the Ogryns, a human subspecies of very stupid giants that require surgery just to rise to childlike intelligence and also possess unquestioning faith in the GodEmperor. Where regular humans fall to Chaos to satisfy their ambition or bloodlust, Ogryns are basically tricked into thinking the Emperor doesn't like their manipulator's enemies.likewise intolerable "heresies."
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** Their behavior towards the Necrons is a shining example of this. What do you do when there's an army of dormant killbots that's lain undisturbed for countless millennia? Why, wake them up to revere them and then act surprised when they get disintegrated to a man (and if they're told not to, [[Literature/CiaphasCain by someone who actually knows what he's talking about]], they go and do it anyway). Not helping this is the all-but-stated fact that the Omnissiah they worship (as an aspect of the Emperor, to keep the Inquisition off their backs) is in fact the Void Dragon, one of the Necrons' gods.
** Even the mainline [[CrystalDragonJesus Imperial Church]] has this. [[InvokedTrope One
** The Warhammer 40000 universe plays with this trope, because there is actually little space for belief. All tenets of religion ([[PhysicalGod the existence of God-Emperor and ruinous powers of Chaos to name a few]]) are based on fact. The members of the clergy (especially members of the Inquisition
** The Emperor, agreeing with this trope, outlawed any form of faith so human belief wouldn't empower Chaos anymore. Not only did it not work as faith is only a part of Chaos, as it feeds on emotions as well, but also [[NiceJobBreakingItHero let everybody in the dark about the existence of nasty dark gods and demons be vulnerable to their offers of attaining great power for a terrible price]]. This led to the Literature/HorusHeresy.
** The Sisters of Battle tend to let their faith and holy zeal overcome their tactical sense, leading to getting slaughtered pointlessly.
** This is the general view of the Tau Empire. Their species has an innate resistance to the Warp that basically makes them immune to the psychic temptations and explosions that plague humanity (and don't even use Warp travel), so they simply don't get that the powers of Chaos are real, writing off daemons appearing in realspace as a particularly unpleasant species of alien.
** And then there's the orks, though in their case it's more being naturally stupid and their belief being a collective psychic power that occasionally fails entertainingly, so it's all good (they've gone to war over which of their twin gods is which, [[BloodKnight and couldn't care less]]).
** The Imperials with the most single-minded devotion to the Emperor are the Ogryns, a human subspecies of very stupid giants that require surgery just to rise to childlike intelligence and also possess unquestioning faith in the GodEmperor. Where regular humans fall to Chaos to satisfy their ambition or bloodlust, Ogryns are basically tricked into thinking the Emperor doesn't like their manipulator's enemies.
