>>714756639The Dead Space novel Martyr broke down Altman's discovery of the marker on Earth.
He was not a prophet by any stretch and did his level best at destroying the fucking thing recognizing the marker as the messed up cosmic horror that it was. He was killed for his troubles, his findings on researching it twisted into the basis for Unitology, and Altman would consider the religion and it's followers as batshit insane.
It's a very heavy handed take on religion being used as control device for large populations, however, unlike many, I fully support religion being used in such a matter to promote social cohesion despite being firmly in the camp of "Religion is fundamentally bullshit".