I was so lucky to meet Carl Sagan in 1993. I told him that next to my Dad, he was my greatest hero. He said that was one of the nicest things that he has ever been told.
Carl Sagan was genius. I love astronomy but this is the best film ever. All the actors are great. They understood the whole story. God bless Carl and Anne.
Cool, how were you casted how did that work cause there are maybe like 1000 people what did they do to get that many people there? Oh at which minut someone can maybe see you anr your wife?
One of the most thought provoking movies of our time. Jodie Foster is the quintessential scientist. The opening scenes, the zooming out, to show the size of our universe is breath taking. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
Thank you for uploading this. Contact is one of my favorite films. I still cry when Ellie fades out, the stars fade in, and we see that final title card: "For Carl". He meant so much to me as kid, and I still miss his presence in the world so much. _C.Q., C.Q. Carl, are you there? Come back..._
Thank you for this. I love the film but have never seen how it was made. This is such a wonderful tribute to the people who did that but also to the man who made the film possible: Carl Sagan. I'm so sorry he didn't get to see the finished film.
For me this movie tapped into a feeling that these questions were going to be answered as we approached the year 2000. At the time I thought it was really profound, the fact that it seemed to cover so many years of Ellie’s life. The climax didn’t bother me. I thought it was pretty sentimental. The film was tied up for me nicely when the government knew that there was 18 hours of static on her video recording unit. And then they awarded her with a “healthy grant”. That’s important to me - just want to have a job.
Ty for yuploading this. My partner and i watched this flick last night and i kept thinking to myself how much i couldnt wait to see a behind the scenes of it bc it was *that good* Such a great movie, so fkin well made
I know they are out there. I know they are here to watch us. I saw one of the white tic tacs flying in the sky, breaking all laws of motion and laws of aerodynamics. Their vehicles can accelerate or decelerate instantaneously, then changing its line of motion by 90 degrees. There is no inertia. They can fly so fast, disappear in an instant.
I truly honor and respect the great mind and love of humanity that Mr. Sagan had. But also let's face, the best line in this flick had nothing to do with aliens, and I'm guessing was definitely not in the book: "I'm a man of the cloth.......without the cloth!!" You and your abs sure are, MM!!
It was *SUCH* a shame that Carl never got to see the finished product. I personally believe that he would have been MASSIVELY moved by it. "Contact" was a tremendous book, but the film truly captured the essence of what it meant when the right types of humans (and the wrong ones) became involved in the quest for... well... "what is out there". My only hope is that humanity doesn't wait too long before it collectively unites to solve hunger, thirst, poverty, homelessness, depression, violence, and all the temporal, terrestrial, worldly problems... so that it can pursue its far more inspiring CELESTIAL goals. Sure, obstacles will present themselves, but if mankind unilaterally acts as a GLOBAL TEAM... there's absolutely no reason why it can't find universal peace, harmony, adventure, love, compassion, and a true sense of *purpose*. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Time is the only resource for which no creature may bargain..." --Diamond Dragons (book I) 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
There're unquestionably other lifeforms but they may well be and are more likely that not, not within our sensual range (ie, our own senses or those we create like radio, etc) and exist on another plain. This is not at all a bizarre possibility. Consider that we all accept a radio signal that travels from our local FM station. It travels to us and through us all the time and yet we're not aware that it exists until we use technology to receive it, ie, a radio. In its simplest form it is an intelligent energy - you can understand it, but remember, without the radio you cannot hear it or interpret it or appreciate its very existence. By the same token, other lifeforms in the Universe will be more advanced than us if they possess communication technology - our own in comparison is in its embryonic state, its very infancy of evolution because we've only had it for 100 years or so. What we use in a bid to 'hear' messages from elsewhere in the Universe is also likely to be a minute and extremely narrow number of mediums to those that exist - that is, we really probably don't yet know of millions of other 'wavelengths' that exist beyond the ones we commonly use, and those wavelengths quite likely far exceed the speed of light. We dictate that nothing can exceed the speed of light - how ignorant to conclude this, as we may well not be aware of a form that can, as its beyond our current knowledge and equipment - how can you build a machine that detects something that's a total unknown? So how can you know it doesn't exist?! Regards.
What if there is a lot of signals, outcalls, messages right now passing by our planet(and have been going on a long time) but we have not yet discover the technology to pick it up/understand it. :D
@@KraitoKrombongus Correct Kraito - they Do exist ( I know) and hence raise the awareness. But I do not have the answer to this, only a realisation. I knew this form of thinking from aged 5 - I am from Oxford and Second Side Up FM, its on here, TH-cam and the BBC iPlayer, among others. By the way, I am not relating to personal sentient aura's here but intella-gallatic (spelling) connection, likely faster than light. Mark.
@@KraitoKrombongus Please / Kindly re-read what I stated = that what you ask is asked. Why /how would we know of other unknown wavelengths, etc, and a lot more beyond our current understanding, if they're not within our reach, our technology or imagination?
@@marknestbox Maybe we all are affected by it without knowing, when the past 100 years have moved civilization so fast, we are on the path to evolve to get ready for whats is waiting. And yes I believe there is more, we have discovered speed of light in our own understanding because we can see the light and combined it with our method of counting to get a answer that satisfy us. But how to learn something that is not yet discovered? Does it start with one of our secret weapon imagination or as an transmission from the unknown.
@@KraitoKrombongus The truth will likely arrive gradually and not a meteoric like realisation, but Yes, what we are discussing is a reality, definitely, and I suspect that the same is known and covered up. We have 5 senses and the intellect - that is the start and Not the end, We may even be co-habiting this planet, as ludicrous as that sound. M. SSU.
3:28 They showed one of the scenes that makes a mistake with the math. She says there's 400 billion stars in our galaxy which is correct. Then says imagine if 1 in a million had planets which would result in 400,000. Next she says imagine if 1 in 1,000,000 stars had planets with life. It would then be 0.4, (when we know there's at least 1, us). Then she said imagine 1 in a million had intelligent life, which is still 0, but with 6 more 0s in the decimal, so nonsensical In _Cosmos_ Carl Sagan said imagine 1/4 stars had planets, which now that we discovered exo-planets it's probably between 1/2 to 1. Carl then said imagine if every one of those solar systems had 2 planets capable of sustaining life, but 1/2 actually developed life, leading to a factor of 1 (not 1 in 1 million) and 1/10 had intelligent life and 1/10 had technological civilizations capable of radio astronomy then the result would be 400 billion /4 /10 / 10 = 1 billion technological civilizations in the galaxy. But the real question is how many are alive now? If they only survive 1/100 million of the life of the planet or star (i.e. 80 years) then there might be only 10 civilizations in the galaxy today. If technological civilizations are more likely to survive for say -800,000,000- [edit:] 80,000,000 years or 1/100 the life of our star, then there could be 10 million civilizations in our galaxy today.
Recent studies have shown that no exoplanets have the right conditions for life, in the few thousand we've discovered, so I have a feeling the conditions for life are actually rare.
@@aldunlop4622 "Rare" is a questionable term in this regard. 1/400 would be 1 billion or 0.25%. We probably need to investigate 1 billion stars or 1% of those in the galaxy to get a good sample before saying "Nothing to see here."
Hello 👋 hello from Athens, Greece 🇬🇷."The Contact" it is for me, far the best approach of Extraterrestrial life and Religion. And Jodie Foster's performance it's absolute the right one for this role, cause combines the dynamic woman who knows well that what she is looking for is somewhere out there, and beyond any other knowledge,where she was looking since she was a small child but also later in the most specialized colleges where she was always looking for an answer that in the end is not in the very expensive machines that she would very much like to get into,and to travel in her consciousness, to find the true value where God himself is and where he finds her in the most difficult moment of her life, where all the .... "expert scientists" fall εραup to devour her and challenge the most beautiful moment of her life, where she meets the aliens in her father's face, where he gives her the answers.LOVE EVERYWHERE, that is the only answer, the love of God 🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼🇬🇷🧿🧿
Well put, I believe the movie demonstrates the search that comes from every man's eternal soul, but the truth is that there is only ONE TRUTH and it only comes by God Almighty thru Jesus Christ and His Word, the Holy Bible. One day every individual will know the ultimate Truth. The question is that will it be too late for that individual's eternal soul. John 3:3,7,16,17 10:9 14:6 Acts 4:12 Without Jesus Christ there's NO HOPE of eternal salvation for your soul. 💟✝️
Lets look at the Universe as multidimensional system, not only 3D. Our human physical senses are very limited, but if we start to co-operate with the spiritual side of our being, things start to happen. Like people doing holotropic breathing have been able to tell about certain plant ´s cell structures that only scientists with microscopes could see! That person could travel in the nonphysical looking into the physical. Stanislav Grof has written books about holotropic breathing. I have done 5 sessions and I promise you, with a good trained therapist it is amazing! Tripping without drugs.
I truly believe that every individual will find out that ultimately it is God Almighty ----- (the Holy God of the Bible, the Creator of the world 🌎 and the universe)----- that we (mankind) have been seeking all this time. The question is, will it be too late for that individual's soul for eternity---- eternal life ❓ There's only ONE TRUTH... Jesus Christ is our only Hope for eternal life in heavenly bliss with Him. John 3:3,7,16,17 10:9 Acts 4:12 1 John 5:11,12,13 Ephesians 2:8,9 Romans 10:9,10,13 Trust in Jesus Christ only, or no man will make it to any kind of eternal bliss that he seeks. Matthew 7:13,14 Please find and read those verses in God's Word. God's love and peace to you. ✝️ 😌
This is a great movie with big ideas. My only complaints with it are the inclusion of Pres. Clinton and the suicide bomber. Using Clinton added realism at the time but makes it seem dated now. Having a fictional president would have made it more timeless. Also, I wish they had not had the suicide bomber wear a Christian cross. Although he is portrayed as a cultist, it is a gross distortion of Christianity. Christians do not engage in suicide bombings. If the filmmakers didn’t want to offend people of faiths that have used suicide bombers, then they should not have connected him to any particular religion and just made him a generic nut job. Other than those two criticisms, I think this is a powerful and under appreciated film.
The budget of contact was stressed by building two machines each one third of a trillion Bucks. no wonder they could not hire Michael Jackson as Alien!
Blessings in an abundance of the faith. I salute you. 😘🙏Grace and peace be unto you and to this place. God bless you. 🤍🤍🤍Thank you. Will you believe and receive Jesus Christ as your LORD and personal saviour??? I do. 🤍🤍🤍
I love what you said and this is a very thought-provoking movie. Better to trust in the TRUE God than in Science or any other forms of so called "religions". I truly believe that it is God Almighty the holy God of the Bible through Jesus Christ that every individual will stand before Him because one day every individual will ultimately know the Truth, but hopefully it will not be too late for their own eternal soul. Trust in Jesus Christ now for your eternal soul before it is too late! God's love and peace to you all that may find yourselves reading this. 💟✝️ John 3:3,7,16,17 10:9 Acts 4:12
What? That wouldn't work...Palmer is in the book and the point of his character is religion and science interconnected. The movie needed both viewpoints
@@kaylakoerper6892Yes, you are correct about the involvement of Palmer being in the movie 🎥.... But it's more like the One and only TRUE God Almighty of the Bible... not just merely "religion" as the movie portrays or even how most people view God or even spirituality. They either do not believe in God nor do they trust in God through Jesus Christ ✝️ for a relationship and therefore just refer to it as just merely "religion" ---- it's a very vague, aloof and/or distant term to them... In other words NOT real, sadly 😔
I love Carl Sagan's work. But I have difficulty classifying him as a "great" man, since he basically ran off and left his child and wife based on an affair with Ann Druyen. They all tell their version of the story, but everyone knows what the truth is.
I was so lucky to meet Carl Sagan in 1993. I told him that next to my Dad, he was my greatest hero. He said that was one of the nicest things that he has ever been told.
Carl Sagan was genius. I love astronomy but this is the best film ever. All the actors are great. They understood the whole story. God bless Carl and Anne.
My wife and I were extras for the scenes shot at the Cape. I still have the ball cap from the set.
Cool, how were you casted how did that work cause there are maybe like 1000 people what did they do to get that many people there?
Oh at which minut someone can maybe see you anr your wife?
@@migalorsdarwin1930 There were hundreds of extras for that scene. We couldn’t pick ourselves out of the crowd.
One of the most thought provoking movies of our time. Jodie Foster is the quintessential scientist. The opening scenes, the zooming out, to show the size of our universe is breath taking. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
Thank you for recording, uploading and preserving this piece of beauty.
Thank you for uploading this. Contact is one of my favorite films. I still cry when Ellie fades out, the stars fade in, and we see that final title card: "For Carl". He meant so much to me as kid, and I still miss his presence in the world so much. _C.Q., C.Q. Carl, are you there? Come back..._
Contact is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for uploading this video.
Beautiful, just beautiful. We miss you Carl. I was so touched by this film that I had to go see it again the following day.
One of my favorites movies, i love this smart vision of this subject
A really great film. Suspense, drama and sci-fi mixed with deep and profound thoughts. The casting was perfect. One of my favorites.
Thank you for this. I love the film but have never seen how it was made. This is such a wonderful tribute to the people who did that but also to the man who made the film possible: Carl Sagan. I'm so sorry he didn't get to see the finished film.
THANK YOU FOR THIS
.... For Carl
I still cry when I see that.
My favorite movie of all times!
Same
@@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyouAll special and visual effects, courtesy of Industrial Light and Magic and Sony Pictures Imageworks
For me this movie tapped into a feeling that these questions were going to be answered as we approached the year 2000. At the time I thought it was really profound, the fact that it seemed to cover so many years of Ellie’s life. The climax didn’t bother me. I thought it was pretty sentimental. The film was tied up for me nicely when the government knew that there was 18 hours of static on her video recording unit. And then they awarded her with a “healthy grant”. That’s important to me - just want to have a job.
Mr. Hadden the cool chracter
Hey! My brother and I wrote and directed this show! 😊
I believe you
Wow...I'm mesmerized
My favourite movie.
Ty for yuploading this. My partner and i watched this flick last night and i kept thinking to myself how much i couldnt wait to see a behind the scenes of it bc it was *that good*
Such a great movie, so fkin well made
Brilliant film. Really
I know they are out there. I know they are here to watch us. I saw one of the white tic tacs flying in the sky, breaking all laws of motion and laws of aerodynamics. Their vehicles can accelerate or decelerate instantaneously, then changing its line of motion by 90 degrees. There is no inertia. They can fly so fast, disappear in an instant.
I truly honor and respect the great mind and love of humanity that Mr. Sagan had. But also let's face, the best line in this flick had nothing to do with aliens, and I'm guessing was definitely not in the book: "I'm a man of the cloth.......without the cloth!!" You and your abs sure are, MM!!
My favorite movie ever
Un des mes films de science-fiction préférés. Jodie Foster était phénoménale dans ce personnage.
Music: Alan Silvestri(1997)
And now Arecibo is gone :(
@mack9992004 It was in the James Bond film _Goldeneye_ too, I think.
This film made me think
It was *SUCH* a shame that Carl never got to see the finished product. I personally believe that he would have been MASSIVELY moved by it. "Contact" was a tremendous book, but the film truly captured the essence of what it meant when the right types of humans (and the wrong ones) became involved in the quest for... well... "what is out there".
My only hope is that humanity doesn't wait too long before it collectively unites to solve hunger, thirst, poverty, homelessness, depression, violence, and all the temporal, terrestrial, worldly problems... so that it can pursue its far more inspiring CELESTIAL goals. Sure, obstacles will present themselves, but if mankind unilaterally acts as a GLOBAL TEAM... there's absolutely no reason why it can't find universal peace, harmony, adventure, love, compassion, and a true sense of *purpose*.
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
"Time is the only resource for which no creature may bargain..." --Diamond Dragons (book I)
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
I wish they would make a sequel to this movie. Continue on with the discovery of the aliens. Revisit them.
Wonderfull Movie✨✨✨
Thanks!
Does anyone know what the supposed 1/24th scale model of the machine was of, specifically? I wish I could find any photos...
I bet Katya is here...
For Carl
There're unquestionably other lifeforms but they may well be and are more likely that not, not within our sensual range (ie, our own senses or those we create like radio, etc) and exist on another plain. This is not at all a bizarre possibility. Consider that we all accept a radio signal that travels from our local FM station. It travels to us and through us all the time and yet we're not aware that it exists until we use technology to receive it, ie, a radio. In its simplest form it is an intelligent energy - you can understand it, but remember, without the radio you cannot hear it or interpret it or appreciate its very existence. By the same token, other lifeforms in the Universe will be more advanced than us if they possess communication technology - our own in comparison is in its embryonic state, its very infancy of evolution because we've only had it for 100 years or so. What we use in a bid to 'hear' messages from elsewhere in the Universe is also likely to be a minute and extremely narrow number of mediums to those that exist - that is, we really probably don't yet know of millions of other 'wavelengths' that exist beyond the ones we commonly use, and those wavelengths quite likely far exceed the speed of light. We dictate that nothing can exceed the speed of light - how ignorant to conclude this, as we may well not be aware of a form that can, as its beyond our current knowledge and equipment - how can you build a machine that detects something that's a total unknown? So how can you know it doesn't exist?! Regards.
What if there is a lot of signals, outcalls, messages right now passing by our planet(and have been going on a long time) but we have not yet discover the technology to pick it up/understand it. :D
@@KraitoKrombongus Correct Kraito - they Do exist ( I know) and hence raise the awareness. But I do not have the answer to this, only a realisation. I knew this form of thinking from aged 5 - I am from Oxford and Second Side Up FM, its on here, TH-cam and the BBC iPlayer, among others. By the way, I am not relating to personal sentient aura's here but intella-gallatic (spelling) connection, likely faster than light. Mark.
@@KraitoKrombongus Please / Kindly re-read what I stated = that what you ask is asked. Why /how would we know of other unknown wavelengths, etc, and a lot more beyond our current understanding, if they're not within our reach, our technology or imagination?
@@marknestbox Maybe we all are affected by it without knowing, when the past 100 years have moved civilization so fast, we are on the path to evolve to get ready for whats is waiting. And yes I believe there is more, we have discovered speed of light in our own understanding because we can see the light and combined it with our method of counting to get a answer that satisfy us. But how to learn something that is not yet discovered? Does it start with one of our secret weapon imagination or as an transmission from the unknown.
@@KraitoKrombongus The truth will likely arrive gradually and not a meteoric like realisation, but Yes, what we are discussing is a reality, definitely, and I suspect that the same is known and covered up. We have 5 senses and the intellect - that is the start and Not the end, We may even be co-habiting this planet, as ludicrous as that sound. M. SSU.
3:28 They showed one of the scenes that makes a mistake with the math. She says there's 400 billion stars in our galaxy which is correct. Then says imagine if 1 in a million had planets which would result in 400,000. Next she says imagine if 1 in 1,000,000 stars had planets with life. It would then be 0.4, (when we know there's at least 1, us). Then she said imagine 1 in a million had intelligent life, which is still 0, but with 6 more 0s in the decimal, so nonsensical
In _Cosmos_ Carl Sagan said imagine 1/4 stars had planets, which now that we discovered exo-planets it's probably between 1/2 to 1. Carl then said imagine if every one of those solar systems had 2 planets capable of sustaining life, but 1/2 actually developed life, leading to a factor of 1 (not 1 in 1 million) and 1/10 had intelligent life and 1/10 had technological civilizations capable of radio astronomy then the result would be 400 billion /4 /10 / 10 = 1 billion technological civilizations in the galaxy. But the real question is how many are alive now? If they only survive 1/100 million of the life of the planet or star (i.e. 80 years) then there might be only 10 civilizations in the galaxy today. If technological civilizations are more likely to survive for say -800,000,000- [edit:] 80,000,000 years or 1/100 the life of our star, then there could be 10 million civilizations in our galaxy today.
Recent studies have shown that no exoplanets have the right conditions for life, in the few thousand we've discovered, so I have a feeling the conditions for life are actually rare.
@@aldunlop4622 "Rare" is a questionable term in this regard. 1/400 would be 1 billion or 0.25%. We probably need to investigate 1 billion stars or 1% of those in the galaxy to get a good sample before saying "Nothing to see here."
Hello 👋 hello from Athens, Greece 🇬🇷."The Contact" it is for me, far the best approach of Extraterrestrial life and Religion. And Jodie Foster's performance it's absolute the right one for this role, cause combines the dynamic woman who knows well that what she is looking for is somewhere out there, and beyond any other knowledge,where she was looking since she was a small child but also later in the most specialized colleges where she was always looking for an answer that in the end is not in the very expensive machines that she would very much like to get into,and to travel in her consciousness, to find the true value where God himself is and where he finds her in the most difficult moment of her life, where all the .... "expert scientists" fall εραup to devour her and challenge the most beautiful moment of her life, where she meets the aliens in her father's face, where he gives her the answers.LOVE EVERYWHERE, that is the only answer, the love of God 🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼🇬🇷🧿🧿
Well put, I believe the movie demonstrates the search that comes from every man's eternal soul, but the truth is that there is only ONE TRUTH and it only comes by God Almighty thru Jesus Christ and His Word, the Holy Bible.
One day every individual will know the ultimate Truth. The question is that will it be too late for that individual's eternal soul.
John 3:3,7,16,17 10:9 14:6
Acts 4:12
Without Jesus Christ there's NO HOPE of eternal salvation for your soul. 💟✝️
Helical scan is REALLY HORRIBLE, tape tension issues, head switch issues, chroma issues etc.
Hi Gaia
Can’t believe you made this without a single phone as a camera
Jodie fosters knuckles
Lets look at the Universe as multidimensional system, not only 3D. Our human physical senses are very limited, but if we start to co-operate with the spiritual side of our being, things start to happen. Like people doing holotropic breathing have been able to tell about certain plant ´s cell structures that only scientists with microscopes could see! That person could travel in the nonphysical looking into the physical. Stanislav Grof has written books about holotropic breathing. I have done 5 sessions and I promise you, with a good trained therapist it is amazing! Tripping without drugs.
I truly believe that every individual will find out that ultimately it is God Almighty ----- (the Holy God of the Bible, the Creator of the world 🌎 and the universe)----- that we (mankind) have been seeking all this time.
The question is, will it be too late for that individual's soul for eternity---- eternal life ❓
There's only ONE TRUTH... Jesus Christ is our only Hope for eternal life in heavenly bliss with Him.
John 3:3,7,16,17 10:9 Acts 4:12 1 John 5:11,12,13 Ephesians 2:8,9 Romans 10:9,10,13
Trust in Jesus Christ only, or no man will make it to any kind of eternal bliss that he seeks. Matthew 7:13,14
Please find and read those verses in God's Word. God's love and peace to you. ✝️ 😌
This is a great movie with big ideas. My only complaints with it are the inclusion of Pres. Clinton and the suicide bomber. Using Clinton added realism at the time but makes it seem dated now. Having a fictional president would have made it more timeless. Also, I wish they had not had the suicide bomber wear a Christian cross. Although he is portrayed as a cultist, it is a gross distortion of Christianity. Christians do not engage in suicide bombings. If the filmmakers didn’t want to offend people of faiths that have used suicide bombers, then they should not have connected him to any particular religion and just made him a generic nut job. Other than those two criticisms, I think this is a powerful and under appreciated film.
Satan thought Christianity was ignorant and consistently degraded the religion.
1985
1992
The budget of contact was stressed by building two machines each one third of a trillion Bucks. no wonder they could not hire Michael Jackson as Alien!
Blessings in an abundance of the faith. I salute you. 😘🙏Grace and peace be unto you and to this place. God bless you. 🤍🤍🤍Thank you. Will you believe and receive Jesus Christ as your LORD and personal saviour??? I do. 🤍🤍🤍
I love what you said and this is a very thought-provoking movie.
Better to trust in the TRUE God than in Science or any other forms of so called "religions".
I truly believe that it is God Almighty the holy God of the Bible through Jesus Christ that every individual will stand before Him because one day every individual will ultimately know the Truth, but hopefully it will not be too late for their own eternal soul.
Trust in Jesus Christ now for your eternal soul before it is too late! God's love and peace to you all that may find yourselves reading this. 💟✝️
John 3:3,7,16,17 10:9 Acts 4:12
LOL
Musk looks old
The book was far better. The film is a cartoon.
Jodie Foster is the best!
Great movie if u take out Palmer.
What? That wouldn't work...Palmer is in the book and the point of his character is religion and science interconnected. The movie needed both viewpoints
@@kaylakoerper6892Yes, you are correct about the involvement of Palmer being in the movie 🎥.... But it's more like the One and only TRUE God Almighty of the Bible... not just merely "religion" as the movie portrays or even how most people view God or even spirituality.
They either do not believe in God nor do they trust in God through Jesus Christ ✝️ for a relationship and therefore just refer to it as just merely "religion" ---- it's a very vague, aloof and/or distant term to them... In other words NOT real, sadly 😔
I love Carl Sagan's work. But I have difficulty classifying him as a "great" man, since he basically ran off and left his child and wife based on an affair with Ann Druyen. They all tell their version of the story, but everyone knows what the truth is.