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When a work of fiction is insistent on the differences between religious idealism and the realism demanded by the plot, overly religious characters may be portrayed as out of touch with the demands and opinions of the world around them. When said work of fiction is a video game, however, there may be bonuses related to the adherence to faith. May lead to Ideological [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]] if religion, magic, and science [[Science Fantasy|coexist in the same universe]] and are [[Magic Versus Science|out to get one another]].
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* Religious people are uneducated, as education centers overseen by religious people either lack or shun scientific knowledge. They will
* Religious people are all [[The Ditz|inherently unintelligent]] and/or [[
* Religious people are superstitious and will probably also believe any urban legend or conspiracy theory. Expect the fact that religion and superstition are two different things to be disregarded.
* Religious people [[The Fundamentalist|cannot get along with or tolerate anyone who doesn't follow their religion
* Religious people
* Religious people only win new followers [[Join or Die|by force]], an [[Appeal to Force]] or an [[Appeal to Consequences]].
* Religious people are uncultured killjoys
* Religious people [[New Media Are Evil|hate new media, denouncing it as a product of evil]], a gateway to evil or shunning it as being used for evil even if it can also be used for good.
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The polar opposite is [[Hollywood Atheist]].
As with other tropes, this trope is a commentary on Real Life attitudes crafted to suit the purposes of various authors.
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* Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl Magnus in ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]''
* In all versions of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''
▲* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' (all versions) Ed and Al travels to a town where everyone except for the leader of the [[Corrupt Church]] runs on this trope. Such as blindly following a manipulative con artist, and when he disappears, go violent and destroy everything.
** The manga and Brotherhood series as a whole subverts the trope, however, as it takes Ed the entirety of the series to figure out the truth behind... erm... Truth.
* ''[[Simoun]]'' [[Deconstruction|takes this trope, puts it over its knee, gives it a paddling, whips it with chains, and throws its lacerated corpse in a ditch]]. The series' depiction of its one 'strong atheist' character's bitter, unhelpful, avaricious stupidity and almost palpable, reptilian sleaziness is... quite something. There ''are'' sympathetic non-religious characters, including one of the main romantic leads, but overall this is pretty much the anti-''[[Agora]]'' in its portrayal of religion.
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* The religious fanatics in "[[Bio Apocalypse]]" take this trope to the extreme.
* Termight Empire in [[Nemesis the Warlock]] are religious fanatics seeing aliens as demons, worshipping clearly insane leader as a God and getting themselves killed with undying fanatism. Nemesis' battlecry is ''Credo!'' (''Believe'' in latin), but he points out he means it like "belive in yourself".
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* ''[[Agora]]'', focusing on the death of the philosopher Hypatia, depicts Christians as fanatical assholes,
* ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'' depicts religious believers as stupid at a number of points, refusing to think for themselves and fracturing off into sects divided by trivialities. The Jewish revolutionary organizations and the followers of Brian are both examples.
* In ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'', the escaped prisoner, Everett, repeatedly chides people for their religious gullibility. Examples:
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* Religious people in Neal Stephenson's ''[[Anathem]]'' run the full gamut of stupid, from trying to murder a guy who saved one of their members' lives to believing that strange lights in the sky are a sign that the world is going to be judged.
** ''[[Anathem]]'' also provides plenty of counter-examples. Ganelial Crade is religious, and while his religion can get in the way of his critical thinking, he's not completely stupid. The avout end up empathizing with his faith: while they don't agree with it, they feel much of what the believers feel. Then there's Cord, one of the most intelligent non-avout characters in the book, who ends up joining the Kelx faith.
* Although the [[Discworld]] novels criticize organized religion much more than belief itself, the third ''[[
** "Somewhat" in this case meaning "If Darwin hadn't written ''Origin of the Species'', humanity would never leave the planet before it froze."
*** He doesn't just not write it; he writes a book just as convincing in the other direction and more or less ''ends science''.
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** The Emperor, agreeing with this trope, outlawed any form of faith so human belief won't empower Chaos anymore. Not only did it not work as faith is only a part of Chaos' "diet" (it feeds on emotions as well), but also [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|let everybody in the dark about existence of nasty dark gods and demons that would like to give you great power for terrible price, leading to]] the ''[[Horus Heresy]]''.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** In ''[[Planescape]]'' lack of belief is [[Flat Earth Atheist|plain weird]], thanks to being set mostly in the parts of the Multiverse that run on [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]. Everyone believes if something, if only their precious [[Manifest Destiny]]. There's a vocal atheist faction, but it believes in hidden truths and even they can be priests, just of [[Concepts Are Cheap|ideas/abstract ideals]] rather than personified powers. Inner planes are different, but there people are mostly concerned with survival (and occasionally politics) instead.
** And the [[Forgotten Realms]]. [[And I Must Scream|Considering what happens to the Faithless]], you'd be much dumber to ''not'' worship a god.
*** It's more the other way around, that is in the world so teeming with jostling and politicking divinities that outsiders half-expect there to be a local [[Odd Job Gods|God of Beer Mugs]], being an atheist is kind of like not believing in air or water. Not everyone even knows of the wall, but apparently it appeared after the last time the Faithless were majority of a faction with significant power.
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