Organic_Panic

Greetings lads, my name is doctor Earle, and I'm just going to be blunt with you. I am here to crush
the one thing you hold nearest and dearest to your heart. It's not going to be easy, for either of us, but it's best to rip this bandaid off while you're still a new recruit. If I don't, you'll go insane trying to fit every little thing into your particular theology. And loonies are no good to any of us so let's just get right on into it.

If you want to survive here, you need to give up religion.

I can probably guess that once you learned about the unexplainable nature of our universe you probably thought that that meant that your god exists. And they probably do exist. But by that logic, so do everybody else's gods. Whenever I give this seminar, you inductees always think I'm going to tell you to be straight up atheists, but that's not the case. Do you want to meet God? He's chilling in site 17, you can even request a luncheon with him or something. I'm not here to tell you that your religion is or isn't wrong, I'm here to tell you that your religious devotion to your religion is wrong.

You're scientists.

Put your hands down. I don't care if you're a field agent or a "City Slicker" or whatever. By joining the Foundation, you dedicated your lives to science. And as Scientists, you need to keep an open mind. throughout your time here, you will meet entities from many different pantheons, some mainstream, some occult. The truth is, there is no one set pantheon and no pantheon is truly accurate. When people see powerful entities, their first instinct is to worship them. They make up stories that are only partially based on the truth to trick themselves into thinking they know what's going on. Sometimes they even include a little something for themselves.

Your religion is one of these stories, and you're going to have to come to terms with that. As I said, scientists need to keep an open mind. Did Einstein let his dependency on Newtonian physics keep him from discovering General Relativity? No. Did Darwin let his Creationist upbringing stop him from cataloging evolution? No! Did Plato let the general consensus of the time stop him from teaching his students that the earth was round? Hell no!

So why should you, modern scientists who know a hell of a lot more about the true nature of reality than those guys, let your religious dependencies stop you from doing your jobs!

And remember, above all else; we Secure, we Contain, and we Protect.