Lol it’s literally a ‘not-so-subtle’ one to one knock off of Scientology. The entire structure of the church of unitology, how they operate and even the language the story uses, right down to the name unitlology / Scientology being derivative. The entire thing is just trolling Scientology hard
@@JonathanLukeAvery all the better, fanatic cultism is best left in fiction where it truly belongs. I'm still kinda disappointed that Scientology is even a thing, although thankfully they do not have the (apparent) reach or influence that Unitology does in terms of having everyone from the executives of the most successful company in existence (CEC) to literally the only single government figure in their pocket.
That’s the tragedy of it. Michael was just an ordainary man who wanted to make the world better, who wanted to save us from what he saw as the ultimate threat. Instead, his name was used to legitimize a religion based around the worship of the very thing he was against. I can only think that the Brethren were playing with him, letting him toy around until they had what they needed, before forcing him to serve them… _as all must one day serve._
A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased. The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."
Any cause can be taken to the extreme. The church just used that natural tendency to the maximum by actively encouraging its followers to embrace their radical side and reject all other viewpoints outright. Psychologists to them are “infidels” that seek to “profane the beauty of the church,” I.E, the brainwashing they get put through.
No problem with that. You can work with materialism to defeat it. Like you can make money working for the corporation, to buy a house in the woods and break out from a corporate life. No contradiction here (I would be a good unitology preacher, aren't I?)
Unitology is a commentary on the extremes of any religion. If that faith isn't in open arms against non-believers, it's the under table machinations of rich devotees that influence society. Even as a Christian, I still fear the the ability of man to twist good messages for their own gains.
I wouldn't say the extremes of religion It shows the extremes of Ideologies im getting tired of people in the comments going "omg unitologists are the same as Christians!"
@@TheInSaNeTenno I believe it was created as a jab at some of the fringe crazy ass cults like scientology yeah, but a lot of Christian haters like to say Unitology is the same as Christianity even though Unitology basically has the exact same structure as Scientology And its core tenets rely around one scientist who met a godlike being who then became a martyr (which is almost a near match to Scientologys founding)
@@TheInSaNeTenno The devs nearly got sued by them lol. It is VERY much on the nose with it tbf. Unitology, Scientology, indoctrination, "buy our stuff and give us money!"...
Scientology had been a dead religion for years by the time the Marker was found. It was mostly because of the general collapse of humanity’s collective faith, started during catastrophic events like the Trinity Hurricanes and the Lunar Wars. Everyone just sort of…stopped caring. Much of the universe was still unknown, but we were convinced that we knew enough to determine a single fact; God didn’t exist, there was no afterlife, and the world ain’t getting any better. Then the Marker. Suddenly, there’s something new to latch on to, something that not only provides answers to question we thought had been answered, but _plausible_ answers, with _tangible_ proof. So, naturally, we clung to it for dear life. While this new religion had the vitality to overtake most others, it didn’t actually do anything to them. Most rival faiths just…faded away. Leaving mankind as either Strictly Atheist or Unitologist.
It does blow my mind that a lot of people don’t see a lot of red flags when it comes to this church, like why would a church need large sums of money and political power for their faith.🐱
@@WiseFish People who assume themselves to be less easily influenced are usually mistaken. You believe what you want to believe and if you chosen group tells you anything you are less bias.
It’s easy to say oh look why would anyone join this cult when in real world cults use manipulation to get people to join and it’s scary how well some pull it off.
I'm sorry how nobody saw the writing on the wall for a group of people who literally preserve their dead in cryo storage and has a advanced private army called the oracles and the only way to advance in the organization is how much you donate welp too late now ALTMAN BE PRAISED
I personally believe that Unitology, or at least the Circle, are much more of a sect than a religion. Otherwise, why would the Unitologists try to fight necromorphs in Dead Space 3 ? Wouldn't it make them closer to the Convergence?
In Dead Space 3 the Unitologists that were encountered are part of an extremist faction called The Circle led by Danek, and the reason they fight Necromorphs during gameplay is explained in the game's dialogue as part of the natural human fight or flight instinct. So if you think about it Danek and the Circle are trying to kill Isaac and the Necromorphs are just getting in the way due to being hostile to everyone, meaning that it's basically a free-for-all fight between Isaac and the Eudora's crew, The Circle and the Necromorphs.
@@WiseFish To be fair it's probably more to do with RUclips's awful algorithm than your upload schedule, looked at your channel and there's months of videos that I just haven't seen anywhere in my recommended or home page etc. Great video though dude, love the channel
Only if it’s active. If it’s dormant, it just whispers to you. During an active outbreak, the whispers become LOUD SCREAMING THAT YOU JUST CAN’T IGNOREMAKEUSWHOLEMAKEUSWHOLEMAKEUSWHOLEMAKEUSWHOLE
The beginning of this video is already wrong, on so many points. For a start he never moved there with his girlfriend. He took a position because she was already there studying the locals. He also never found the signal. He shared a lab with another geophysicist who worked for a different company. He discovered the signal, not altman. He also wasn't haveing headaches for weeks before they found the marker. They all started to feel its effects the moment it went off. Also altman going public happened after he was inducted into the program by dredger corp. He escaped the compound and returned to America to go public. He was pulled in originally by dredger corp because he was in contact with someone who set up their computers, and he wanted to discuss the signal with altman. It was him who told altman that dredger corp was setting up a company to study the marker. Your stuff is usually spot on, but i couldnt watch the rest because so much is wrong in the first four mins.
I’ve always had this idea of a cinematic universe where we follow Altman first as he fights to contain the black marker, then later we meet Isaac, and it’s slowly revealed through minor hints and quirks that Isaac is, somehow, a direct descendent of Altman, and could be said to be Michael reincarnated, so that he could finish what he started.
Remake tells the same story as the original but for some reason none of it stuck with me in 2008 but the 2023 version seems to put the story across better because I suddenly have become absorbed into the dead space lore
Funnily enough, unitology is the only other religion is consider making my self a part of. And it actually has an end game, unlike scientology. I can't wait for convergence.
Believe it or not, Unitologist do make a point about convergence. After death, they are unified and how do they do they know what comes after (non believers) there could be a Paradise after death and finely... praise the Marker.
I know that there wont be a continuation of the Dead Space franchise nor an ending but...i always wonder if the Moon Brethen were once an alien race trying to cheat death in order to live forever but something went very wrong and accidentally created a death hivemind and end up causing the Plague of death on space.
I'd rather worship Gaben than the Markers, and by extension the Brethren Moons. Anyway, I'm sure many of us would like to see a video about the Sovereign Colonies, the unsung heroes of Tau Volantis that stopped a Convergence Event while sacrificing public support for their own government before being disbanded by the end of the Secessionist Wars, and maybe a video regarding EarthGov and how they doomed humanity as well.
If you think about it, Dead Space is the biggest and most successful Unitology outreach program to date. It even proves it's real and chronicles the hardships of a non-believer slowly coming around and finally reaching convergence.
Excuse me ! I’m very offended how you depicted our lord and savior Jesus Christ as a random person’s face and not the holy chad he is 😡 P.s. I’m joking, love your lord videos ❤
You know what's weird, I've always been a lore nerd as far as buying games, like I need good story lore....... but for some reason dead space just doesn't have it at all for me, I just bought them because the games and the way they play is absolutely amazing! Lol
Join the Unitology church today!!...turn into a Monsterous Necromorph today !!and kill more people 🤣🤣 completed Deadspace 2 loved it. Need to play Deadspace 1 the remake , Deadspace extraction and Deadspace 3!!
Nice video and fascinating topic. Side note: the truth is that 50% if not more of the people playing Dead Space and commenting on this video have the same basis of morality that Unitologists do: that moral decisions should be weighted toward maximizing collective good rather than individual good. Unitologists' "extreme" version of this, albeit coupled with an unfalsifiable religion, is simply the logical conclusion of following this ethics.
Im 100% sure that if Markers would exist in our universe, people would create the same fking religion around it. I mean these idiots literally saw what actually Marker is doing and they still wanted to be part of all this mess, only a small % of people like Terrence Kyne could see all this shít for what it is and let go of all their beliefs easily when seeing whats all their religion is about.
Man the entire religion resembled Christianity so much so with the blend Islamic fanaticism in seeing themselves "right" or "true" as if they're the only one religion out their after them, folding them to their affiliation specifically Imperial Evangelical Industrial Complex.
I clipped the sement and reported to the sponorblock plugin for multiple browsers. Aren't you supposed to have a notification in your video for a paid sponsorship? I reported the video for the lack of it. Why promote a drink that contains lead?
This is the problem I have with religion, you cant denounce your religious beliefs, without being killed and you have to kill all those who don't believe in your own same belief(s). But have to love video game religions to me it makes scientology seem innocent compared to unitology.
After all the shit the unitology did to my GOAT Isaac, corrupting his mother, killing both his parents, and stealing their bodies. I'm suprised he didn't go all Wolfenstein on them after what he saw on Ishimura.
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"Indoctrinated Church Of Unitology "
Which -religion- cult is not indoctrination?
Dead Space devs really went above and beyond with the lore. Altman be praised.
May his light shine upon us all.
Lol it’s literally a ‘not-so-subtle’ one to one knock off of Scientology. The entire structure of the church of unitology, how they operate and even the language the story uses, right down to the name unitlology / Scientology being derivative.
The entire thing is just trolling Scientology hard
Altman be praised.
@@michaelfitzgerald38 Kane lives-oops wrong religion
@@JonathanLukeAvery all the better, fanatic cultism is best left in fiction where it truly belongs. I'm still kinda disappointed that Scientology is even a thing, although thankfully they do not have the (apparent) reach or influence that Unitology does in terms of having everyone from the executives of the most successful company in existence (CEC) to literally the only single government figure in their pocket.
The irony of all of it is that Altman would be against the faith.
That’s the tragedy of it. Michael was just an ordainary man who wanted to make the world better, who wanted to save us from what he saw as the ultimate threat.
Instead, his name was used to legitimize a religion based around the worship of the very thing he was against. I can only think that the Brethren were playing with him, letting him toy around until they had what they needed, before forcing him to serve them… _as all must one day serve._
Just like the imaginary friend of any other cult.
A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased. The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."
Love it 😅
What a dad joke, lmao (I mean that in a 100% good way, btw)
A Faith that shouldn’t have ever existed. Any Dead Space veteran knows the end result of these fanatics.
No different than the radical religions we have today.
Cake. Lots of cake 🎂
@@LordVortex888 what
@@LordVortex888 There is no different between religious radicals and idelogical or other movements groups though.
Any cause can be taken to the extreme. The church just used that natural tendency to the maximum by actively encouraging its followers to embrace their radical side and reject all other viewpoints outright. Psychologists to them are “infidels” that seek to “profane the beauty of the church,” I.E, the brainwashing they get put through.
I’ve always wanted to know more about Scientology……errr unitology!
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Ah yes, praise Xenu
"We seek an end to materialism. Buy our pins today!"
Eh. Cults aren't known for being the most... logical, if you catch my drift.
No problem with that. You can work with materialism to defeat it. Like you can make money working for the corporation, to buy a house in the woods and break out from a corporate life. No contradiction here (I would be a good unitology preacher, aren't I?)
Unitology is a commentary on the extremes of any religion. If that faith isn't in open arms against non-believers, it's the under table machinations of rich devotees that influence society. Even as a Christian, I still fear the the ability of man to twist good messages for their own gains.
I wouldn't say the extremes of religion
It shows the extremes of Ideologies im getting tired of people in the comments going "omg unitologists are the same as Christians!"
Like a christians I’m with
@@nicholasbrown668 Honestly I always thought Unitology was a jab at Scientology or something?
@@TheInSaNeTenno I believe it was created as a jab at some of the fringe crazy ass cults like scientology yeah, but a lot of Christian haters like to say Unitology is the same as Christianity even though Unitology basically has the exact same structure as Scientology
And its core tenets rely around one scientist who met a godlike being who then became a martyr (which is almost a near match to Scientologys founding)
@@TheInSaNeTenno The devs nearly got sued by them lol. It is VERY much on the nose with it tbf. Unitology, Scientology, indoctrination, "buy our stuff and give us money!"...
In the dead space universe i imagine scientologists and unitologists have a lot of conflict with each other. Great work on the video wisefish.
Imagine Markers in the Borderlands universe.
Scientology had been a dead religion for years by the time the Marker was found. It was mostly because of the general collapse of humanity’s collective faith, started during catastrophic events like the Trinity Hurricanes and the Lunar Wars. Everyone just sort of…stopped caring. Much of the universe was still unknown, but we were convinced that we knew enough to determine a single fact; God didn’t exist, there was no afterlife, and the world ain’t getting any better.
Then the Marker. Suddenly, there’s something new to latch on to, something that not only provides answers to question we thought had been answered, but _plausible_ answers, with _tangible_ proof. So, naturally, we clung to it for dear life.
While this new religion had the vitality to overtake most others, it didn’t actually do anything to them. Most rival faiths just…faded away. Leaving mankind as either Strictly Atheist or Unitologist.
@johnk.7523 Or 40k.
Actually, that would probably just be a typical Tuesday for the Imperium, lmao.
It does blow my mind that a lot of people don’t see a lot of red flags when it comes to this church, like why would a church need large sums of money and political power for their faith.🐱
Signal is making their mind believe that it’s a good thing is my thinking. That and I guess people are easily influenced lol
Now explain why people do the same for real world churchs?!
@@swig9931Depends which churches and religious organizations you are talking about. Not everyone is a violent fanatic and a serial evangelist.
@@WiseFish People who assume themselves to be less easily influenced are usually mistaken. You believe what you want to believe and if you chosen group tells you anything you are less bias.
It’s easy to say oh look why would anyone join this cult when in real world cults use manipulation to get people to join and it’s scary how well some pull it off.
I'm sorry how nobody saw the writing on the wall for a group of people who literally preserve their dead in cryo storage and has a advanced private army called the oracles and the only way to advance in the organization is how much you donate welp too late now ALTMAN BE PRAISED
I personally believe that Unitology, or at least the Circle, are much more of a sect than a religion. Otherwise, why would the Unitologists try to fight necromorphs in Dead Space 3 ? Wouldn't it make them closer to the Convergence?
In Dead Space 3 the Unitologists that were encountered are part of an extremist faction called The Circle led by Danek, and the reason they fight Necromorphs during gameplay is explained in the game's dialogue as part of the natural human fight or flight instinct.
So if you think about it Danek and the Circle are trying to kill Isaac and the Necromorphs are just getting in the way due to being hostile to everyone, meaning that it's basically a free-for-all fight between Isaac and the Eudora's crew, The Circle and the Necromorphs.
Necromorphs don’t make distinctions based around religion. Atheist or Unitologist, we’re all just meat to them.
Man I haven't seen your channel pop up in my feed for ages, gonna binge now that you're doing Dead Space lore lol
Glad you came back, I am trying to get a bit more consistent with my uploads
@@WiseFish To be fair it's probably more to do with RUclips's awful algorithm than your upload schedule, looked at your channel and there's months of videos that I just haven't seen anywhere in my recommended or home page etc. Great video though dude, love the channel
Finally, the real truth of Scientology..no wait, Unitology. Or is it The Super Adventures Club?
All praise the super adventures club!
Mercer was the craziest Unitologist.
Ironic, the one thing that can keep them safe from the necromorphs drives them to madness and even suicidal
Only if it’s active. If it’s dormant, it just whispers to you. During an active outbreak, the whispers become LOUD SCREAMING THAT YOU JUST CAN’T IGNOREMAKEUSWHOLEMAKEUSWHOLEMAKEUSWHOLEMAKEUSWHOLE
Altman be praised!
Altman be praised
What I find funny is that it cannon that every unitologist is stupid
Thank you for the Dead Space content recently! Love your channel in general, so enjoying the diversity.
Algorithmic chasing babeeeeee!
lmao the picture of gaben. Glad the church of steam is still getting love
The beginning of this video is already wrong, on so many points. For a start he never moved there with his girlfriend. He took a position because she was already there studying the locals. He also never found the signal. He shared a lab with another geophysicist who worked for a different company. He discovered the signal, not altman.
He also wasn't haveing headaches for weeks before they found the marker. They all started to feel its effects the moment it went off.
Also altman going public happened after he was inducted into the program by dredger corp. He escaped the compound and returned to America to go public. He was pulled in originally by dredger corp because he was in contact with someone who set up their computers, and he wanted to discuss the signal with altman. It was him who told altman that dredger corp was setting up a company to study the marker.
Your stuff is usually spot on, but i couldnt watch the rest because so much is wrong in the first four mins.
Many thanks for this excellent video! Really appreciate your well written, narrated and produced work!
Dude a dead space spinoff taking place on earth, call it Dead Space: Altman be praised. Bro Altman main character. That shit would be bad ass
Dead Space: Martyr, a novel about Altman and the Origins of unitology. Good read.
@@SuperSeriouslyJoking it is a good read, and the game idea would be based off the book
I’ve always had this idea of a cinematic universe where we follow Altman first as he fights to contain the black marker, then later we meet Isaac, and it’s slowly revealed through minor hints and quirks that Isaac is, somehow, a direct descendent of Altman, and could be said to be Michael reincarnated, so that he could finish what he started.
Remake tells the same story as the original but for some reason none of it stuck with me in 2008 but the 2023 version seems to put the story across better because I suddenly have become absorbed into the dead space lore
For the Glory of the Many.
Beware the machine mother...
Funnily enough, unitology is the only other religion is consider making my self a part of. And it actually has an end game, unlike scientology. I can't wait for convergence.
Have fun being a galactic tick.
_Signed, the Tyranids_
_Also, we have taken the liberty of relieving you of several million citizens_
_Thanks_
25:58 lmao “as well as the willing as well”
Unitology church is basically Unification church IRL, but instead of Altman we have Sun Myung Moon
The most important theme of Dead Space is the dangers of blind faith.
My god please make more dead space/resident evil lore videos. I was so happy to see you had more then cyber punk
Wisefish be praised
The fact they throw Altman in a room with a necromorph and only give him a spoon is just sick 😂
Believe it or not, Unitologist do make a point about convergence. After death, they are unified and how do they do they know what comes after (non believers) there could be a Paradise after death and finely... praise the Marker.
Is the marker getting to you? Lol 🤔😰
I know that there wont be a continuation of the Dead Space franchise nor an ending but...i always wonder if the Moon Brethen were once an alien race trying to cheat death in order to live forever but something went very wrong and accidentally created a death hivemind and end up causing the Plague of death on space.
Ah yes the group that caused the necromorph outbreak on Titan
Gabe be praised!!!
I love these dead space lore videos
I'd rather worship Gaben than the Markers, and by extension the Brethren Moons.
Anyway, I'm sure many of us would like to see a video about the Sovereign Colonies, the unsung heroes of Tau Volantis that stopped a Convergence Event while sacrificing public support for their own government before being disbanded by the end of the Secessionist Wars, and maybe a video regarding EarthGov and how they doomed humanity as well.
Awesome video dude, grab a beer or similar carbonated beverage on me.
Thank you so much dude I shall drink in your name. Massively appreciate it!
I was wondering why the Earth Gov would bother make him a martyr just to form a dangerous religious group and make them a threat to them.
Very fascinating lore. Dead Space has some great material.
If you think about it, Dead Space is the biggest and most successful Unitology outreach program to date. It even proves it's real and chronicles the hardships of a non-believer slowly coming around and finally reaching convergence.
I hope you are joking😂
OMG GFUEL ACTUALLY EXISTS??? I thought it was a meme thing from that drama dude.
*Altman be Praised*
Excuse me ! I’m very offended how you depicted our lord and savior Jesus Christ as a random person’s face and not the holy chad he is 😡
P.s. I’m joking, love your lord videos ❤
Lore*
You know what's weird, I've always been a lore nerd as far as buying games, like I need good story lore....... but for some reason dead space just doesn't have it at all for me, I just bought them because the games and the way they play is absolutely amazing! Lol
Hold up now did he just say divine Arian
As in the Arian race
😅 Wow I really wasn't expecting that
Man, Christianit- I mean, scientol- I mean, Unitology sure sounds evil.
I know right spooky stuff 😬 it sure isn’t like the stuff you said 😅
great video love dead space vids
Anyone who has even heard the Halo theme music knows a "great journey" is never a good thing.
dead space martyr is not canon unless EA has put out a statement?
What? Martyr is very much canon.
Thanks! Great video👍👍!
Altman be praised, this is a detalied video
Join the Unitology church today!!...turn into a Monsterous Necromorph today !!and kill more people 🤣🤣 completed Deadspace 2 loved it.
Need to play Deadspace 1 the remake , Deadspace extraction and Deadspace 3!!
Nice video and fascinating topic.
Side note: the truth is that 50% if not more of the people playing Dead Space and commenting on this video have the same basis of morality that Unitologists do: that moral decisions should be weighted toward maximizing collective good rather than individual good. Unitologists' "extreme" version of this, albeit coupled with an unfalsifiable religion, is simply the logical conclusion of following this ethics.
Scientology and how it’s getting more and more exposed is making it seem like the real life version of Unitology.
You could make a religion out of this!
Im 100% sure that if Markers would exist in our universe, people would create the same fking religion around it. I mean these idiots literally saw what actually Marker is doing and they still wanted to be part of all this mess, only a small % of people like Terrence Kyne could see all this shít for what it is and let go of all their beliefs easily when seeing whats all their religion is about.
Man the entire religion resembled Christianity so much so with the blend Islamic fanaticism in seeing themselves "right" or "true" as if they're the only one religion out their after them, folding them to their affiliation specifically Imperial Evangelical Industrial Complex.
Hail god gaben 🙏
Oh no, they've converted you and have you spreading their religion! XD J/k j/k Great and detailed lore vid! Well played.
Hot
I clipped the sement and reported to the sponorblock plugin for multiple browsers.
Aren't you supposed to have a notification in your video for a paid sponsorship? I reported the video for the lack of it. Why promote a drink that contains lead?
The lead shit was only gfuel in flint Michigan.
"Indoctrinated Church Of Unitology "
Which -religion- cult is not indoctrination?
Unitology is dodgy...
Maybe watch some Atheist videos BEFORE you start mocking other "gods-believers". EVEN if they are fictional.
Unitologists remind me of the woke
This is the problem I have with religion, you cant denounce your religious beliefs, without being killed and you have to kill all those who don't believe in your own same belief(s). But have to love video game religions to me it makes scientology seem innocent compared to unitology.
You reiligous people are killers ?
you literally can in a lot of countries
so basically Islam?
Pretty much all of the 3 Abrahamic religions, actually. And maybe some Polytheistic religions too
No it’s basically Scientology/Ancient Aliens stuff with a heavy emphasis on the escapist fantasies of these ideas
After all the shit the unitology did to my GOAT Isaac, corrupting his mother, killing both his parents, and stealing their bodies. I'm suprised he didn't go all Wolfenstein on them after what he saw on Ishimura.
Altman be praised!
Altman be Praised 💯
Altman be praised!