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In Reply to: Estelle- I had a further comment re. Avatar posted by down below, if you care to peek. Shawn on March 09, 2010 at 14:57:29:
the movie did most certainly have "green" political overtones, but if you must make anything biblical out of it, it would be that God did create everything to work in harmony together and gave us dominion over it to care for and protect it, not to trash it.
I saw nowhere that it said anything about primitive being good or any of the crap he said.
Now don't get me wrong. He is entitled to his own opinion. But one thing I absolutely cannot stand is when someone who is a prominent religious figure uses their position to tell other people what to think - and they do - because he says so - and they haven't even seen the movie to decide for themselves. Why? Because they don't want to because of what he said, yet he saw it.
Harry Potter is considered satanic by a bunch of people who never read the book or saw the movie. Yet Cinderella is fine, where fairy godmothers turn pumpkins into coaches, rats into coachmen and rags into gowns. That's okay.
Anyway, maybe it is because I'm not a Christian, but I saw Avatar as a political statement about what will happen to our world if we continue to live the way we are going rather than learn to live with it, with what God gave us - engineered food, babies whose sex and eye color is decided, trees that are only seen at arboritums instead of in yards. Is that the world God made for us to protect?
And in that respect, if primitive, where people respected what God made for them, cared for it and thanked him for it, even when it was killed to provide food, what is so bad about that.
I'm sorry, but that guy is nuts.
And my philosophy is religion is bad, spirituality is good.