History Main / RobotReligion

* In ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' synthetics tend to worship [[DeusEstMachina the Archailects]] [[MachineWorship just like the majority of bionts]], but there are robot-specific religions such as Machine Ghost Dance, Kja Observance and Virtual_Kja Observance.

** An interesting quirk comes from Japan's Comic Bom Bom way back in 1985, predating every other ''Transformers'' example on this page. In it, following an interstellar war various alien races came together to maintain peace, building an observational space station named Cybertron with a powerful computer at its core. As time went on, the space station developed sentience and TurnedAgainstItsMasters, slowly drawing in resources to build itself up into a gigantic planet and leaving much of the galaxy a barren wasteland. As time went on, the planet slowly evolved its own flora and fauna, eventually giving rise to the Transformers.

** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' fleshes out the Transformers' religion more than any other series. It even gives a new creation myth, with Primus and four equals, one of whom betrayed the others. Various characters believe in religion, Drift being TheFundamentalist, Flywheels being a "Neoprimalist", Ore and Ratchet being atheists. Some believe that their alt-mode is tied into their religion, possibly as a descension from their god. The Quest that the book focuses on is in part, religiously sought. There are even different depictions of religion's facets: [[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Scoop]] and his team devote themselve to helping people as part of their holy way, while Dai Atlas and the Circle of Light are a neutral faction who keep to themselves, but ultimately stand for what's right. Star Saber, on the other hand, became infamous as [[RedBaron "the Dark Evangelist"]] for his radical ideals, which included the destruction of all nonbelievers. This last part caused the Circle to expel him.

Robots have their own religion and they worship a [[ShapedLikeItself robot god
]]. For robots who are Christians or Hindus or followers of any other ''human'' religion, see instead ReligiousRobot. (And FantasticReligiousWeirdness.)

Basically, [[ShapedLikeItself robots who have their own religion]]. For robots who are Christians or Hindus or followers of any other ''human'' religion, see instead ReligiousRobot. (And FantasticReligiousWeirdness.)

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' fleshes out the Transformers' religion more than any other series. It even gives a new creation myth, with Primus and four equals, one of whom betrayed the others. Various characters believe in religion, Drift being TheFundamentalist, Flywheels being a "Neoprimalist", Ore and Ratchet being atheists. Some believe that their alt-mode is tied into their religion, possibly as a descension from their god. The Quest that the book focuses on is in part, religiously sought. There are even different depictions of religion's facets: [[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Scoop]] and his team devote themselve to helping people as part of their holy way, while Dai Atlas and the Circle of Light are a neutral faction who keep to themselves, but ultimately stand for what's right. Star Saber, on the other hand, became infamous as [[RedBaron "the Dark Evangelist"]] for his radical ideals, which included the destruction of all nonbelievers. This last part caused the Circle to expel him.
* Meanwhile, in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', Optimus Prime is having to deal with the fact that he's seen as a religious figure on the rediscovered colony of Caminus. Given that he's personally disturbed by the legacy of the Primes and the number of them who were power-hungry lunatics, he finds the Camien's reverence for him intensely unsettling and really wishes they'd stop.

* The Church of the Machine in ''VideoGame/PunishingGrayRaven'' is composed of robots that have achieved sentience after looking at the artwork of an enigmatic figure known as the Sagemachina. Various robots are on a "pilgrimage" to discover the whereabouts of the Sage, as their leader, Mother Arcana, claims to have had a vision that the Sage will return to guide them to space. Even then, they're not sure if they're really following in the Sage's footsteps -- When Haicma asks whether the voyage to space is really what the Sage wants, Arcana admits their only answer to that is "We'll ask when we find them". [[spoiler:Amusingly, it turns out the Sage is Nanami, an anime and Toku quoting GenkiGirl, though just as well, without her positive influence, the Church is capable of going on a humanity-exterminating crusade in one BadFuture.]]

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', there is the Silicon Heaven belief system, which Kryten, the Hudzen-10 and possibly all Divadroid mechanoids are programmed to believe in. The basic principles are that mechanoids must serve humanity loyally and obediently throughout their runtime, and when they expire, they will go to an afterlife of blissful rest as a reward for their service. Lister finds the faith extremely objectional, both because this faith is programmed into mechanoids (meaning they have no choice), and because he's uncomfortably aware that [[ScamReligion Divadroid made Silicon Heaven up as an easy way to enforce mechanoids to serve humanity instead of rebelling]]. Occasionally mention is also made of a "Silicon Hell", mostly for disobedient mechanoids.
** The books state that cheap and nasty appliances that couldn't possibly pose any kind of threat to Mankind don't get a belief chip installed, resulting in atheist toasters and skutters.
** Kryten's faith in Silicon Heaven is one of his intellectual blind spots - even though he, ironically, mocks "Human Heaven" as being something that somebody made up to keep humanity from going nuts.
-->'''Kryten:''' "No silicon heaven? Then...where would all the calculators go?"

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' ("Future Stock")

* The characters in Toys/{{Bionicle}} revere Mata Nui as their "Great Spirit". He's actually [[spoiler:A HumongousMecha ship that contains their entire "universe" .]]

* Many robots in ''VideoGame/{{Primordia}}'' have forgotten that humanity even existed, but some of those who do remember worship "Man the All-Builder" as a sort of creator deity. Horatio, the main character, is a devout follower of the religion, but his creation is skeptical.

* ''FanFic/{{Eugenesis}}'' notes that Cybertron, back before the Great War, used to have just one religion. What with [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Unicron returning and killing Primus in front of His creations]] and everything else that's happened, the First Church of Primus has completely fractured. The flashpoint seems to have been when [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] launched the Underbase, repository of all Cybertronian wisdom, into space to stop Megatron getting his hands on it.

* The various iterations of ''{{Transformers}}'' {{canon}} are rife with this kind of thing. ''And it's all true''. Robot God (Primus) had a throw-down with the Robot Devil (Unicron) in ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', several characters have been to the afterlife and come back, [[OurSoulsAreDifferent sparks]] are not only tangible but can actually be transplanted from one body to another, and sacred artifacts of Primus generally drive the plot as [[PlotDevice devices]] responsible for Transformer procreation or leadership. ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' even included a Robot ''Bible'' in the series finale. It was a book on tape.

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* The Church of the Machine in ''VideoGame/PunishingGrayRaven'' is composed of robots that have achieved sentience after looking at the artwork of an enigmatic figure known as the Sagemachina. Various robots are on a "pilgrimage" to discover the whereabouts of the Sage, as their leader, Mother Arcana, claims to have had a vision that the Sage will return to guide them to space. Even then, they're not sure if they're really following in the Sage's footsteps -- When Haicma asks whether the voyage to space is really want the Sage wants, Arcana admits their only answer to that is "We'll ask when we find them". [[spoiler:Amusingly, it turns out the Sage is Nanami, an anime and Toku quoting GenkiGirl, though just as well, without her positive influence, the Church is capable of going on a humanity-exterminating crusade in one BadFuture.]]

** The "Iron Gods" Adventure Path is about an AI attempting to ascend to Godhood. The party can kick his ass and ascend ''another'' AI in his place.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'' Has a race of robots on the planet Abollon. Abandoned by their creators centuries ago, several of them decided to create their own god. The AI then set out to find similar intelligences to itself, and found the aforementioned Brigh as well as the AI from ''Iron Gods''. The three of them merged into a tripartate entity called Triune.

* The Creator/{{Wildstorm}} universe has the robotic Church of Gort, mostly seen in stories about Maxine Manchester, a cyborg member of the ComicBook/WildCATs. The psychopathic Maxine converts to the Church and becomes a devout believer in the sanctity of machine life. Organic life she's less concerned with.

** The other mainly-Warforged religion centers around the Lord of Blades, a mysterious and charismatic warforged prophet who has made many apocalyptic speeches to the warforged in Mournland. Their message is simple: the warforged were made to rule Eberron, [[FantasticRacism and the other races must be enslaved or exterminated]]. While the faithful have rites, prayers, and spirituality, they place no value on the spiritual existance, because, after all, their god and everything needed is physical.

** The Reforged philosophy is the odd one out of the Warforged Mysteries. They eschew mechanical enhancement in favor of becoming more like living beings, whether it's by emulating their biological functions or trying to replicate them, so that they may fit better in with them. They largely hang around in their enclaves, where they can indulge in the various aspects of living, and practice them, along with either a library, a garden, or some other quiet place for them to meditate on the nature of life.

* They're not ''robots'' exactly, but Warforged in the ''TabletopGame/Eberron'' setting for Dungeons and Dragons have a few religions "of their own" [[note]]there's nothing in the game mechanics stopping Warforged from following any god in the setting, or a member of any other race from following one of the Warforged religions, but the latter in particular is rare[[/note]], collectively known as "the Warforged Mysteries."

* They're not ''robots'' exactly, but Warforged in the Eberron setting for Dungeons and Dragons have two religions "of their own" [[note]]there's nothing in the game mechanics stopping Warforged from following any god in the setting, or a member of any other race from following one of the Warforged religions, but the latter in particular is rare[[/note]]. One is worship of the Becoming God, a god whose followers are perfectly aware does not yet exist because they are in the process of ''building'' it. The other mainly-Warforged religion centers around the Lord of Blades. Because of how faith in general works in the Eberron setting, clerics of the Becoming God get magical powers just like clerics of any other god.

* {{TabletopGame/Pathfinder}} has the deity Brigh, goddess of invention. Although she has regular humanoid clergy, she is also a particularly popular object of worship for awakened constructs (created beings like golems and robots who have gained sentience), because she sees them as being just as valid as any other sort of person. While Brigh's origin is not known, one popular myth is that she herself was a clockwork being who somehow ascended to divinity.

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* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': The Court robots treat their long-dead creator's StalkerShrine to the equally-dead Jeanne like a holy place in part because he programmed all his creations with the guilt he felt over her death. They also regard [[GadgeteerGenius Kat]] as an angel after she helps rediscover the site and then repairs/redesigns some of his original creations, the current robots' ancestors.

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* ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'' has [=MetsubouJinrai.net=], an underground ApocalypseCult of [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot HumaGears]] who worship the downed Satelite Ark as sacred and seek to carry out its will to KillAllHumans.

* The [[Literature/{{Foundation}} Second Foundation Trilogy]], by Bear, Brin, and Benford, took Isaac Asimov's robots and showed this as part of their society, based on the Three Laws (with the Zeroth Law being a former heresy that has taken over). In effect, robots worship their creators, humans--in part by keeping us ignorant of their existence.