G’day all.

Chris Ho-Stuart <> writes:

>Haven’t seen the Matrix… but I have heard some people drawing

>parallels between it and the gospel!

I’m floored. You’re a geek and you haven’t seen “The Matrix”?! Next thing you’ll be telling me you’ve never seen “Tron”. 🙂

The spiritual parable film seems to be a common idea nowadays. I think of “Pleasantville” and “The Truman Show”. The Matrix does deal with concepts common to a lot of religions, but seems to drop many Christian-specific hints. I won’t give away the details since you haven’t seen it.

I don’t believe that the Wachowski brothers are actually Christian, but they certainly seem familiar with the material.

>Loved the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (and all the rest of them)

>as a kid;

I did think they got better as the series progressed.

>One major difference between believers and unbelievers is that

>unbelievers feel quite free to evaluate (or judge) the actions

>attributed to God. Believers often find this blasphemous…

FWIW, I don’t think it’s blasphemy to question God. About a third of the Psalms and most of the prophets did it, so you’re in good company. Frankly, if I were God, I’d prefer it to being ignored.

>Back on to the subject of stories: IMHO a more interesting and

>thought provoking effort by Lewis is “The Great Divorce”. Have

>you read it?

No, I haven’t, sorry. I’ll put it on my list, though.

I went off C.S. Lewis for a while a couple of years ago. I was part of a bible study group where several of the members were treating Lewis’ work in a way that I could only describe as mildly idolatrous. Of course that wasn’t Lewis’ fault, but it left a sour taste.

Cheers, Andrew Bromage