Avatar is the most demonic movie ever made.
Monday, March 1, 2010 at 8:41AM In a recent sermon, Mark Driscoll, pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, denounced Avatar as "the most demonic, satanic movie I've ever seen."
Driscoll denounced its "demonic paganism" and its portrayal of a "false Jesus" and a "false heaven." He also took issue with the film's depiction of "connecting, literally, with trees and animals and beasts and birds." Driscoll also said, "That any Christian could watch that without seeing the overt demonism is beyond me."
Well, count me and many of my friends among them. Did James Cameron take a "Christian worldview" into this imaginative, fictional world? Nope. But did I find it "overtly demonic"? Heck no -- and even on the contrary. I saw some distinctly Christian themes in the ideas of self-sacrifice, unconditional love, incarnation, and even a model for missions. (Driscoll even takes our review to task in his sermon.)
Taking Driscoll to task, Houston Chronicle faith-and-art blogger Menachem Wecker, in a post titled "Does God Hate Blue People?", writes, "I don't think that Driscoll is correct that the Na'vi are demonic or that the film is demonic. If anything, Avatar should be applauded for celebrating a spiritual approach to life." He also notes that he was "struck" by the film's "Christian undertones."
What a nuggett. He has latched on to the new popular thing to simultaneously create press for himself and inflict the most amount of guilt possible on his large audience whom he knows went and saw the movie just like everybody else. Truly a master manipulator.
I had to add douchebag to the tags... I want someday, people to look up douchebag and this guy shows up. LOL
Oh.. and the quoted bit of the contrarian story above, is from the Christianity today blog, the same one he pokes a stick at in the video.
Reader Comments (2)
Avatar was a generally bad film. The story was as predictable as they get and the characters were one dimensional. The only "overt" anything about the movie was it's anti-military, anti-technology and anti-corporate message which feed of our cultural guilt.
Visuals were pretty good at times, and at others they just looked cartoony the way everything would be glowing at once. Personally I give it 2/10.
I always find it amusing how buthurt christians get all hot n bothered by movies that have nothing to do with them.
For the most part you are right. But you had to like that hard ass marine guy.