Movies
What can you learn from old civilizations Gods?
March/28/2008
Karen and I just finished watching Troy the movie and what's
of most interest to me is how they portray
the worst decision made based of their
belief in Apollo. A God that no one today
believes in.
If you look at the world today you see people making bad decisions based on their belief in God. A God who doesn't even have a name. It would be like naming your dog "JD" for just dog.
I'm telling all of you believers out there, one day, when future civilizations look back upon your beliefs, they will criticize the decisions you made based on a God that no one believes in. I sincerely hope we are beyond the point where future civilizations will believe in any God at all. History has shown that we are almost there. Think of all the prior civilizations and the large number of Gods they believed in. The number of Gods kept getting smaller and smaller until the majority today are only hanging on to what I hope is the last one.
If you look at the world today you see people making bad decisions based on their belief in God. A God who doesn't even have a name. It would be like naming your dog "JD" for just dog.
I'm telling all of you believers out there, one day, when future civilizations look back upon your beliefs, they will criticize the decisions you made based on a God that no one believes in. I sincerely hope we are beyond the point where future civilizations will believe in any God at all. History has shown that we are almost there. Think of all the prior civilizations and the large number of Gods they believed in. The number of Gods kept getting smaller and smaller until the majority today are only hanging on to what I hope is the last one.
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Stargate: The Ark of Truth
March/15/2008
Last night Karen and I watched "Stargate: The Ark
of Truth", this was the first time I really
noticed how much religion plays a part in Sci-fi.
Most of the bad guys in Stargate are false Gods.
But they have people worship them and they have
books to live by. The Gauld were more hands on
but the Ori were more inline with the religions
in the world today. They had their holy book and
if you didn't worship you would spend eternity in
hell fire. Very original.
I think what amazes me most is how I watched this show for 10 years and never thought about it's relationship to real religion. Now it seems almost comical. The crazy stuff they come up with isn't any less crazy than the real stuff. Have you seen the drama with Scientology.
Even the robots in Battlestar Gallactica "Praise the Gods."
I wonder if almost all Sci-fi writers are atheists? One of my favorite Sci-fi writers, Joss Whedon, is an atheist. He produced the awesome TV series Buffy and Firefly.
I think what amazes me most is how I watched this show for 10 years and never thought about it's relationship to real religion. Now it seems almost comical. The crazy stuff they come up with isn't any less crazy than the real stuff. Have you seen the drama with Scientology.
Even the robots in Battlestar Gallactica "Praise the Gods."
I wonder if almost all Sci-fi writers are atheists? One of my favorite Sci-fi writers, Joss Whedon, is an atheist. He produced the awesome TV series Buffy and Firefly.
What we know.
November/04/2007