Science VS Religion effect: Andromeda

To tell the truth, I don't even know if my brother and family is religious. They don't go to church, that's for certain, but we never talk about it.

My parents went to church and they must have noticed something when their younger son choose to sleep in on sundays instead of going with them. But never ever did they say a word, let alone called me out. They always encouraged me to think for myself and it was my father actually, who brought me on my path. By taking me to the museum of natural history, showing me all the dinosaur skeletons and telling me they are millions and millions of years old. Science classes at school did the rest, since in our country there never was "teach the controversy" but science as it is. Not even in the early 70ies.

Oddly the I feel the same way option doesn't actually sound like Ryder necessarily feels the same way.

What I found interesting about talking to Suvi about her views is it felt like it was foreshadowing what we discover later in the game.

To clarify: I'm an agnostic myself, and don't really care if people believe or don't. I grew up in a pretty religiously diverse background with a Hindu dad from India and a Christian American mom, and sort of came to the conclusion that there is no right or wrong answer on this kind of thing (if there is some higher power). It's better to live and let live. Ryder did tell Suvi she's welcome to her beliefs, at least, but I would have rather bypassed the debate altogether. It's just a small complaint to the mechanics of the dialogue itself, nothing major.

And Godwin's Law strikes. 

I scanned the Tempest up and down and found no gas chambers. Maybe Hahne-Kedar had them recalled before the Initiative set off. 

To be fair, AA is far more cultish (being a cult and all). 

One thing I do like about Suvi's convo, if you straight answer yes she is deluding herself, she agrees.

Yes, good point, about Drack especially. It takes time to really get to know him, and I found it really rewarding. Wish more of the crew were like that.

The new religion = seeing agendas everywhere.

Do agendas have wings? Or just capes? Are they accepting donations? When it rains, am I being kissed by agendas? When I get an itch on my arm, is it an agenda reminding me to do something? When the end of the world comes, will agendas be angry at me for not believing in them?



Thank god I'm an atheist!

I just wanted to mention that the conversation with Suvi is not the only place where spirituality is brought up.

If Vederia becomes the new asari pathfinder, Ryder can have a conversation with her about her beliefs.  There's also the angaran reincarnation belief, and an example of some artifact bringing forth supposed past-life memories.  You're left to draw your own conclusions about that - the situation is not much different from Javik's ability to "read" people and even glean information about former occupants of the Normandy, supposedly having to do with biological markers.

I see it all as world-building, and opportunities for Ryder to express their own feelings about these matters.