User blog comment:Bookworm1138/The Federation: Good or Bad?/@comment-1340488-20090924154207

TNG's Hide and Q, published DURING the early era of TNG, when Gene Roddenberry was still part of the production...

Jean-Luc Picard: "No. I know Hamlet. And what he said with irony I prefer to say with conviction. "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god... ""

Any person who believes in God will tell you that man can NEVER achieve on their own a state of ANY faculty wherein they may say WITH CONVICTION that they are on a state of god-hood (Picard saying "I say with conviction" negates when he later says "I see us one day becoming that." If he didn't believe they were ALREADY on par with God, then why the hell did he say "WITH CONVICTION"?)

Two pseudo-religions, however, DO preach that man can achieve a state of god-hood: those are atheistic humanism and LaVeyan-satanism. Bookworm1138 15:42, September 24, 2009 (UTC)