So your reply is mostly a lie.

Science and technology are more related to the term theology. Techology is the worlds fastest growing religion. A lot of Atheists to go on and on about the subject.

I'm proud to say that my religious views are very in keeping with my parents and how they raised me.

And I'm not sure what you mean about science and technology, and what they have to do with religion.

Most likely you had a religious background.

Maybe your ashamed of your parents and the name makes you feel like you have power over the church. You don't believe. You want to believe in the power of science or technology.

In the end we are all afraid.

But there weren't any zombies in there. The closest parallel to Matheson's mutated plague survivors is vampires.

I was pointing up the whole "one person different in a sea of the same" concept, which you could reduce both to. So I was being facetious, but only because I think likening "I Am Legend" to "Night of the Living Dead" is a biiiiig stretch.

That said, I'm not a tremendous fan of either – I saw Dawn of the Dead first, and only watched Night many years later. And while I read Matheson's story I found it dull and pointless with tons of plotholes and a tiresome, anti-hero, anticlimactic ending.

You're being facetious, of course, but for the sake of argument, I couldn't say that was the point of "I Am Legend". Especially given the end, wherein the main character was subsumed by those inferior to himself. But nevermind the end, throughout the entire book, he's not king. He has to hide in the daytime, cower in the nightime. He wasn't any more of a king to the vampires or infected humans than serial killers are kings to us.