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* ''{{Film/Avatar}}'': The Na'vi worship some nebulous Earth-mother-type goddess, and the humans scoff at this -- until the scientists figure out that Pandoran life (especially trees) is actually connected into a HiveMind, and the Na'vi goddess is quite real. They even explicitly say that they've basically found scientific proof that the goddess really exists.
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* ''{{Film/Avatar}}'': The Na'vi worship some nebulous Earth-mother-type goddess, and the humans scoff at this -- until the scientists figure out that Pandoran life (especially trees) is actually connected into a HiveMind, and the Na'vi goddess is quite real. They even explicitly say that they've basically found scientific proof that the goddess really exists.
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* Philip K. Dick's ''A Maze of Death'' describes a world where God and a Jesus-like manifestation of him are obviously real, and prayers are a commonplace way of solving problems, though they have to be transmitted by radio onto "god planets". There's a FlatEarthAtheist who believes this "God" is just a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien.
** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy and superstitions work perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind of a fundamentalist old man).
** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy and superstitions work perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind of a fundamentalist old man).
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* Philip K. Dick's ''A Maze of Death'' describes a world where God and a Jesus-like manifestation of him are obviously real, and prayers are a commonplace way of solving problems, though they have to be transmitted by radio onto "god planets". There's a FlatEarthAtheist who believes this "God" is just a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien.
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** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy and superstitions work perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind of a fundamentalist old man).
** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy and superstitions work perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind of a fundamentalist old man).
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* Played straight in ''TalesOfEternia''. The Seyfert religion is based around faith ''and'' science, but there's still no actual ''evidence'' for Seyfert's existence. Turns out that he is very real and [[GodIsGood a really cool guy]] to boot. Heck, he even [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming congratulates you for saving the world in the ending]].
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* ''{{Jack}}'':''Webcomic/{{Jack}}'': Anna, after seeing a literal angel:
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* Arguably the {{Aesop}} of the LeftBehind series. [[Anvilicious If you do not accept Christ as your Lord and Savior]], you will be left behind to suffer the Tribulation on Earth, followed by an eternity of damnation if you die during the Tribulation without accepting Christ then.
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* Arguably the {{Aesop}} of the LeftBehind series. [[Anvilicious [[{{Anvilicious}} If you do not accept Christ as your Lord and Savior]], you will be left behind to suffer the Tribulation on Earth, followed by an eternity of damnation if you die during the Tribulation without accepting Christ then.
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* Arguably the {{Aesop}} of the LeftBehind series. [[Anvilicious If you do not accept Christ as your Lord and Savior]], you will be left behind to suffer the Tribulation on Earth, followed by an eternity of damnation if you die during the Tribulation without accepting Christ then.
** In ''Kingdom Come'', it's accept Jesus Christ and you'll get to live past 100 years of age and straight to the end of the Millennium; deny Him [[DeathsHourglass when you reach 100, and you'll die and go to Hell]]. [[LaResistance The Other Light faction]] sees GodIsEvil because of this and has prepared for that contingency by passing its teachings on to the next generation of its converts so that the generation that gets to [[FinalBattle confront God and Jesus at the end of the Millennium]] will be "assured victory" when [[SealedEvilInACan Satan is released]]. [[CurbStompBattle Unfortunately for them,]] [[YouCantFightFate it didn't turn out as they hoped.]]
** In ''Kingdom Come'', it's accept Jesus Christ and you'll get to live past 100 years of age and straight to the end of the Millennium; deny Him [[DeathsHourglass when you reach 100, and you'll die and go to Hell]]. [[LaResistance The Other Light faction]] sees GodIsEvil because of this and has prepared for that contingency by passing its teachings on to the next generation of its converts so that the generation that gets to [[FinalBattle confront God and Jesus at the end of the Millennium]] will be "assured victory" when [[SealedEvilInACan Satan is released]]. [[CurbStompBattle Unfortunately for them,]] [[YouCantFightFate it didn't turn out as they hoped.]]
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** Of course, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the corrupt corporation]] couldn't care less, they just want the {{Unobtainium}}
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-->- Well, I guess that's it for my [[RougeAnglesOfSatin athiest]] status.
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* In YuGiOh, the religion that was right is the religion of the ''ancient Egyptians'', which was actually fairly spot-on.
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The religion in question need not be that of the author, or , although it can.
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Done by a very large number of devout authors in response to ReligionIsWrong being so popular.
Note that the proof must be correct in-story, it doesn't have to make any sense in Real Life. Note also that having a PhysicalGod doesn't qualify: You must have a faith-based religion first.
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Done by a very large number of devout authors in response to ReligionIsWrong being so popular.
popular. However, the use of this trope does not necessarily illustrate the author's own beliefs — the overall story is (usually) being sold as fiction, after all. The in-story religion may range anywhere from a symbolic version of the author's faith, to a nonbeliever's {{deconstruction}} of a real-world religion, to [[WhatIf a simple thought experiment for its own sake]] without any theological ax to grind.
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* Philip K. Dick's ''A Maze of Death'' describes a world where God and Jesus are obviously real and their avatars walk the earth. There's at least one FlatEarthAtheist, though.
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* Philip K. Dick's ''A Maze of Death'' describes a world where God and Jesus a Jesus-like manifestation of him are obviously real real, and their avatars walk the earth. prayers are a commonplace way of solving problems, though they have to be transmitted by radio onto "god planets". There's at least one FlatEarthAtheist, though.a FlatEarthAtheist who believes this "God" is just a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien.
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So, we have a CrystalDragonJesus cult which has something purely metaphysical as a Crystal Dragon. Let it be the Church of the Moon Goddess. Then we invent spaceships, fly to the moon and meet the Moon Goddess herself; she's very glad to see us and is actually as beautiful and benevolent as we thought.
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So, we have a CrystalDragonJesus cult which has something purely metaphysical as a Crystal Dragon. Let it be the Church of the Moon Goddess. Then we invent spaceships, fly to the moon and meet the Moon Goddess herself; [[GodIsGood she's very glad to see us and is actually as beautiful and benevolent as we thought.
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* On ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine,'' the Bajoran religion is based on the godlike "Prophets" who reside in the "Celestial Temple." At the beginning of the series a wormhole is opened very close to the planet, and {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s living within it admit that they are, in fact, the Prophets and have a continued interest in Bajor's future. The Federation [[MagicByAnyOtherName prefers to call these beings "Wormhole Aliens]]," but as you can imagine, the Bajoran religious movement gets a nice boost after the Occupation had caused to many to doubt the Prophets' existence.
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* This trope works in every single {{cosmic horror story}}: if there is an evil cult worshipping an entity, the entity exists.
* This trope works in every single {{cosmic horror story}}: if there is an evil cult worshipping an entity, the entity exists.
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* Religion that deals with TheForce in ''StarWars'' is most certainly this: it does involve faith because, for example, Han Solo didn't believe in Force, but it is proven true.
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Basically, an inversion of ReligionIsWrong.
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Note that the proof must be correct in-story, it doesn't have to make any sense in Real Life. Note also that having a PhysicalGod doesn't qualify: You must have a faith-based religion first.
Compare EasyEvangelism and ScienceIsWrong, AllMythsAreTrue.
Compare EasyEvangelism and ScienceIsWrong, AllMythsAreTrue.
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Compare EasyEvangelism and ScienceIsWrong, AllMythsAreTrue. Contrast ReligionIsWrong.
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* In ''FrankenFran'', the WanderingJew is real, and he confirms everything we know from TheBible about Jesus. Two chapters later we find out that the Flying Spaghetti Monster [[AllMythsAreTrue is also real]]. [[CaptainObvious Franken Fran is weird]].
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* In ''FrankenFran'', the WanderingJew is real, and he confirms everything we know from TheBible about Jesus. Two chapters later we find out that the Flying Spaghetti Monster [[AllMythsAreTrue [[CrossoverCosmology is also real]]. [[CaptainObvious Franken Fran is weird]].
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** Technically, the Flying Spaghetti Monster [[spoiler:''became'' real during the course of a chapter.]]
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** Or, rather, we can prove scientifically that ''angels'' (fallen and not) exist, and are suspiciously like the usual mythic pantheon personality-wise. We still only have their word on the matter that God exists, though.
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* DoubleSubverted in the Movementarians episode of ''TheSimpsons''.
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* Played straight in ''TalesOfEternia''. The Seyfert religion is based around faith ''and'' science, but there's still no actual ''evidence'' for Seyfert's existence. Turns out that he is very real and [[GodIsGood a really cool guy]] to boot. Heck, he even [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming congratulates you for saving the world in the ending]].
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** There was also a famous philosopher in universe who managed to prove the existence of God. However, proving God existed logically proved him wrong, and he promptly ceased to exist. He did leave one final message behind for his creation though: [[spoiler: WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE]].
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Moved Job to literature. There was never a movie made.
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* In RobertHeinlein's ''Job: A Comedy of Justice'' there really is a Heaven, and God, and all that stuff. It's not the same as it is described in TheBible but it's there.
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* In RobertHeinlein's ''Job: A Comedy of Justice'' there really is a Heaven, and God, and all that stuff. It's not the same as it is described in TheBible but it's there.
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Ex-CUSE me?! A CULT? SCREW that! Religion =/= cult, Mr./Mrs.-Whomever-The-Heck-Wrote-That.
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** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy works perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfMind of a fundamentalist old man).
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** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy works and superstitions work perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfMind JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind of a fundamentalist old man).
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** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy works perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfMind of a fundamentalist old man).
** His ''Eye in the Sky'' contains, among others, a world where God is blatantly real (and quite ornery) and gives regular TV transmissions; meanwhile, bars are stocked with vending machines that materialize items from nothing for free, and medieval alchemy works perfectly. (It's actually a JourneyToTheCenterOfMind of a fundamentalist old man).
