This paper examines how contemporary science-fiction narratives articulate the relationship between religion, ideology, and artificial intelligence, while tracing how these symbolic formations circulate in public discourse as frameworks for interpreting technological futures, socio-political tensions, and transcendence. It asks how cultural texts connect religion with AI, what ideological patterns emerge from these connections, and how such narratives shape understandings of social order, human agency, and humanity's future. Building on qualitative research on religious interpretations of AI conducted with religious experts, the paper extends this inquiry from empirical religious discourse into popular culture and media. That earlier research showed that theological and cultural backgrounds generate distinct readings of AI, that religious and technological discourses are often dialectically intertwined, and that AI is often framed as an anthropological or existential challenge rather than a purely technical development. It further develops the proposed concept of technohierophany, understood as the mediated manifestation of sacralized meaning or quasi-religious authority through technological forms. The analysis focuses on Dune, Warhammer 40,000, The Matrix, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Hyperion. These case studies were selected for their representations of AI prohibition, religious syncretism, messianism, political order, technological hubris, and competing visions of humanity, as well as for the circulation of their vocabularies in media discourse, political rhetoric, and ideological interpretation. Using an AI-narrative typology structured along technophilic-technophobic and affective-instrumental axes, together with qualitative narrative and discourse analysis, the paper argues that popular culture not only reflects debates but actively shapes the symbolic frameworks through which religion, ideology, and artificial intelligence are imagined and contested.