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Avatar: Demonic or Inspirational?

Posted by John Saddington on Feb 26, 2010

There have been a number of viewpoints from a number of different individuals (such as Mark Driscoll below) that have cropped up about James Cameron’s Avatar.

And since this is a creative community I thought I’d posit the question here: What’s your take on the movie?

John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCreate.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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46 Responses to “Avatar: Demonic or Inspirational?”

  1. Kendall Conner
    Monday, March 1, 2010 at 11:03 am

    I must admit that I used to be a faithful Christian.

    That is…before I saw Avatar. It was so enlightening to me. It really made me aware of the beauty that is around us each and everyday. I was able to finally connect with the plants and animals around my home. I have noticed that since I saw Avatar, I have become so much closer to my horses. How are my houseplants, you ask? They have grown twice their size since I have began quoting the movie to them. Why would I need any other religion – clearly the people of Pandora had it all figured out.

    Oh, wait. JUST KIDDING! I have not changed any of my theology because of this film. If anything, it inspired me to be more creative for Jesus and the Church.

    Get real, dude.

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  2. Ileana Ortiz
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 8:07 pm

    Avatar was a movie. A technologically game-changing one at that. That’s all it is. That’s all it was.

    If he was offended by Avatar, maybe next week’s message will be on Pocahontas?

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  3. Ileana Ortiz
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    Also, I kind of found it ironic when he docked Avatar for not wanting to develop culture or progress, when he so openly is not a fan of Internet Campuses, and a lot of other technological advances.

    Just my observation.

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  4. PhillipGibb
    Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    wow, that’s quite a slating of the film – calling it demonic. But why then say “Go see it for yourselves”, I certainly would not encourage people to see a demonic film. But there in lies the big deception, that it does not appear overtly demonic. Then again, I find it hard to agree – even that I am a Christian – that this film was more than pure commercialism at it’s best.

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  5. Aihwa
    Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    The church is very, afraid of Avatar. I don’t get it.

    Are you afraid the people are starting to think for themselves rather than follow you?

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