In the episode, "Who Mourns For Adonis" Kirk gives the line, "Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate."

I read somewhere that this was inserted at the insistence of the producers who wanted to maintain an Abrahamic religion at a minimum. One would also point to the many scenes in the chapel throughout TOS for essentially the same reason. enter link description here

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"In the 1960s it may not have been opportune to create a decidedly atheist TV show, so Roddenberry may have been forced to drop (anti-)religious references to keep it at least secular."

In the episode, "Who Mourns For Adonis" Kirk gives the line, "Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate."

I read somewhere that this was inserted at the insistence of the producers who wanted to maintain an Abrahamic religion at a minimum. One would also point to the many scenes in the chapel throughout TOS for essentially the same reason.

And then: (source)

"In the 1960s it may not have been opportune to create a decidedly atheist TV show, so Roddenberry may have been forced to drop (anti-)religious references to keep it at least secular."