His father taught science but also comparative religion which led to Christopher getting kinda… confused. He ended up disagreeing with his father a lot before his father passed away when he was fairly young. This is talked about in Discovery Season 2.
Due to this, Pike has a sort of ‘nostalgia’ for Christianity with the connection to his father. There are a couple of scenes (in SNW) where he talked about the fact that he doesn’t pray and isn’t into it himself but that his father asked him to. He does pray in a scene but it is even started off by him talking to his father by saying “You win dad” and starts reciting the lords prayer. He’s not actually religious himself but in the scene in which it happens it’s done as a demonstration that Pike has done literally everything that he can in all of his science prowess and in a sign of sheer desperation falls back to the worry he had with the loss of his father and starts focusing on something his father taught him.
He’s not really Christian.
His father taught science but also comparative religion which led to Christopher getting kinda… confused. He ended up disagreeing with his father a lot before his father passed away when he was fairly young. This is talked about in Discovery Season 2.
Due to this, Pike has a sort of ‘nostalgia’ for Christianity with the connection to his father. There are a couple of scenes (in SNW) where he talked about the fact that he doesn’t pray and isn’t into it himself but that his father asked him to. He does pray in a scene but it is even started off by him talking to his father by saying “You win dad” and starts reciting the lords prayer. He’s not actually religious himself but in the scene in which it happens it’s done as a demonstration that Pike has done literally everything that he can in all of his science prowess and in a sign of sheer desperation falls back to the worry he had with the loss of his father and starts focusing on something his father taught him.