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Religion

Religion or Faith is a recurring theme in The Walking Dead. It is characterized by a belief in a higher power and, usually, an afterlife.


Occurrences

  • Donna disapproves of Andrea and Amy sleeping together with Dale in the RV, and dubs it "unchristian". (Issue 5)
  • Hershel Greene is a strong Christian and believes the zombie apocalypse could be the '7 Years of Tribulation' described in the Bible but does not understand why God didn't take a Christian like himself to Heaven before the Apocalypse began. (Comic Series)
  • Andrew turns to religion to rid himself of his addiction to narcotics. He also believes he caused the apocalypse by praying to God to get sober, as the outbreak started the very next day, with Andrew being unable to acquire any more narcotics from that point on. (Comic Series)
  • Otis prays in his cell. (Issue 21)
  • Prior to the outbreak, Gabriel Stokes was a father at a church and maintains his faith. (Comic Series)
  • Andrea prays for Dale in Gabriel's church. (Issue 64)
  • Numerous Alexandrians are religious. (Comic Series)
  • Spencer Monroe prays for "strength to do what must be done". (Issue 108)
  • Earl Sutton is shown to be religious and dislikes Paul Monroe's nickname (Jesus), considering it blasphemous. (Issue 109)
  • Negan seems to believe in an afterlife, as he believes his wife is in Heaven, and wants to die so he can be with her when confronted by Maggie. (Issue 174) Later, however, he identifies himself as an atheist, and admits that he just likes to think his wife is in Heaven to cope with the loss better. (Negan Lives)
  • During his rant, Sebastian claims that people almost view Rick as a god. (Issue 191)

Season 1

  • T-Dog drives a church van in an attempt at rescuing elderly people in the time between the walker outbreak and his first scene on the series. It is implied that he has Christian beliefs and takes them very seriously.

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

  • Carl asks Carol if Patrick was a Catholic and Carol responded that Patrick stated he was a "practicing atheist." (Infected)

Season 5

Season 6

Season 8

Season 11

  • Gabriel's faith is shown to be wavering with Gabriel telling Nicholls that "God isn't here anymore." (Hunted)
  • Due to their experiences in Afghanistan, the Reapers are religious, their leader Pope fanatically so. Pope admits to Daryl that his faith had wavered at one point until the group survived Operation Cobalt completely unharmed. Pope states that Daryl escaping from his fire test unharmed is a Baptism by Fire from God. (Rendition)
  • When asked if he is religious, Daryl admits that he used to be, but he isn't anymore. Now Daryl mostly just believes in himself rather than in God. (Rendition)
  • After moving to the Commonwealth, Gabriel experiences a renewal of his faith and begins working as a priest in a church there. (Warlords)

Season 1

Season 2

  • Celia Flores believes the infected are not dead, but at the next stage of life.

Season 3

Season 5

  • Isabelle is a Catholic nun of the Abbey of Saint Bernadette and member of a "progressive religious group".[1] (TBA)

Season 1

The Final Season

Rise of the Governor

  • Nick Parsons is religious and has read the Bible multiple times. He believes that the apocalypse is the Devil's way to make the dead stay on Earth. Nick becomes increasingly fanatical as time goes on, slowly losing his sanity and snapping completely after killing Philip Blake.
  • Gene Gavin declares to the people of Woodbury that the outbreak has been foretold by the Bible and that they might in fact be living in the End Times and this might be the last battle between God and Satan. Gavin declares that, as far as the people of Woodbury are concerned, he has been appointed, by default, the Messiah. (Chaos Theory)

Descent

Invasion

Alone, Together

  • One of the reasons Timothy Stinnot doesn't carry a gun is because he might be tempted to commit suicide if he was surrounded by walkers, and he was brought up to think that "suicide is a one-way ticket straight to hell". Although he admits that he is skeptical of this, he'd also like to hedge his bets.

Typhoon

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Trivia

  • The crucifix is a symbol of Christianity.
  • Afterlife is a belief of most religions. (Islam, Christianity, etc.)

References

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