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Kasz216 on 09 August 2010
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Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
pearljammer said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

 And where the hell are the Muslims on TV?

There is quite a popular show in Canada that is centred on a Muslim family - Little Mosque on the Prairie. It's pretty good, too.

I have to agree, though, atheists are grossly under-represented in television. A good writer would no doubt be able to make an interesting openly atheist character.


An interseting openly atheist character sure... but a charcter who was interesting because he was atheist?  Not  likely the case.   There just isn't anything you can do with atheism.


While I'm not saying that atheists are under-represented on TV (because personally I couldn't care) I disagree that atheism can't be interesting in a character. Have you seen Bones at all?

Yeah, I love the show.  The only reason bones atheism is interesting is because Booth is a strict Catholic.

Atheism is only interesting as a reflection vs a belief system.  

Which, they just don't do much with religion on TV, period.  Religion in general is underrepresented because most shows dont' dealw ith it.

Atheism can really only be the "reaction."  Therefore won't always be present because some stories are purely internal.  For example, another underrepresented group on TV are agoraphobics.  

Because unless you are doing a story about agoriphobia... all it does is limit your character down the line.

 

Atheism being the absense of god, just rules god out as a story or plot telling device.  Unless there are very strong logical reasons for someone to be an atheist, or you have a plan for using it... It's kind of pointless...

and something nobody will ever notice.

Like Dumbeldore being gay.  Well written atheists on most shows, likely will go unrecognized as atheists... because they're just like regular people who don't believe in god.

It's like being someone who doesn't like seafood.  Unless presented with the issue, it isn't going to come up.   People are't going to just assume you don't like seafood.  They'll assume your like everybody else.

And chances are... it won't come up.  Well seafood is actually much more likely, since people go out and eat dozens more times then they go to church or talk about god.