That was fascinating, is this a movie about the android we made meeting our makers? That would be very interesting.
Ridley Scott is one of those enigmatic personalities who defy categorization - maybe intentionally. Who knows? He professes to be an atheist, yet one may discern a reverence for spirituality in many (all) of his serious films. All he will say in any detail about the subject, that I have read or heard, is that he is fascinated by the "process of religious questing" perhaps from a psychological viewpoint of how it effects people both negatively and positively.
Scott may be an example of someone who, though he self-identifies as an atheist, may be more-correctly described as a skeptic waiting for evidence that he can accept of God's existence. If he is keeping his own true feelings about God to himself, he is probably wise, owing to the almost Satanic bigotry and intolerance for theism which exists in his chosen field (film-making). If he did not say that he was an atheist, he might well incur a lot of opposition and interference in his career that he would otherwise not encounter. So I can't fault him for being realistic.
Being a self-identified Jew in Nazi Germany would not have been a good idea either, and sadly we have reached a place that is almost that same level of danger in our current time, in regard to popular attitudes of many of those in power toward Christianity, deism or theism in general. Of all ideologues, I have noticed that militant atheists tend to be among the least tolerant and most vindictive / sadistic of all ideologues.
Note how the principle in Gladiator enters Heaven at the end of his life, even though it was devoted to killing. Also the character Shaw is (whether intentionally or incidentally) a perfect example of a person of faith being sustained by it both materially and through "luck" (which I do not believe in) that is more correctly viewed as "providence". Those would both be concepts more-commonly seen in Christian, Vedantist or Catholic doctrine - the idea that people of faith receive intervention or aid directly from God if they maintain a life of piety and perseverance.
Even if Scott is authentically an atheist as he claims, he is apparently smart and well-informed enough to understand, as CG Jung did, that people who have strong spirituality are often more successful, personally resilient to crisis, happier, healthier, more benevolent and socially valuable human beings than those who do not.
See, apart from theological issues, Christianity is one of the most advanced moral systems that the world has ever known. The fundamental doctrines of Christianity align very strongly with most of the fundamental precepts of mental health, especially when applied with honesty, humility and comprehensive respect for the spirit of the teachings.
