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The Gospel According to Spock

Daniel Burke

Star Trek founder Gene Roddenberry didn’t have much use for religion.

He once said: “Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.”

But that hasn’t stopped the folks at Beliefnet from seeing how the 10 Commandments apply to Star Trek.


From destroying alien idols to coveting thy spacebuddy’s consort, it seems that some sins never change, they just move to a different galaxy.

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