What Battlestar Galactica taught me about faith
For the past two weeks, my wife and I have been on maternity leave. To help pass the time, we signed up for a free, one-month subscription to Netflix and started watching (of all things) Battlestar Galactica. If you were a follower back in 2004, you know why we love it. If you’ve never heard of it, don’t start watching it unless you have nothing pressing in your life – it’s addicting. The show is set in outer space. Humans are displaced after a world war attack by human-created robots known as Cylons. The show is full of rich, biblical parallels, questions surrounding one’s theological anthropology and scenes dedicated to explaining God’s relationship to creation. And I can’t help but see the connections from this show to our faith. The brightest and most obvious to me is God’s relationship to our understanding of both time and space. In the show, time is of the essence. As Cylons attempt to eradicate the human race, key leaders are forced to use “faster than light” techno