On a new strand. Theists look to religion to inform and re-enforce their beliefs but that's also kinda true of atheists too.

In my early teens when my political and philisophical opinions where very much still forming, Babylon5 inspired and re-assured me. The message of the show of tolerance and resistence in the face of oppression were very powerful. This scene kinda sums up how I feel about things...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvmtHGwRSuQ

^ Beautiful stuff.

Some very powerful episodes in the show were about religious faith like 'Passing through Gethsemane'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m9GQ3thO8o

(Shame that clip ^ doesn't have the powerful episode end)

If I have a 'good book' it was that show. Anybody else have similar things that informed them in such a way?

(btw B5 creator/writer J. Michael Straczynski was raised Catholic and is now an atheist if anybody was wondering)