Battlestar Aggregatica

Hmmm... I think this guy is trying to make some sort of comparison to Nazi Germany. Is he off his rocker or what? I think he might be reading a little too deeply into the plot. He should check out our "Who's Hottest?" poll.

Source: Galactica shows its cards

During the early years of the Third Reich, movies were encouraged which portrayed the Jews in a negative light, and prepared the way for the acceptance of the Holocaust by the German people. Those movies are very much on my mind right tonight. I know I shouldn't be surprised at the constant preaching of relativism and socially Leftist values in the movies and on TV, but tonight's episode of the Sci-Fi channel's new version of Battlestar Galactica stuns me even so. And for the first time, I'm a little shook. Until tonight, I don't think I realized how far down that same road we've gone.

It seems that the Cylons- the evil robots who virtually exterminated the human race, sent the remnants of the Twelve Colonies to flight, and- having "evolved" to resemble human beings, have now infiltrated the Galactica, but who operate chiefly through the trusted human who betrayed the human race to its virtual extinction, Dr. Gaius- are something very closely resembling conservative Christians. They believe in one true god, you see, with whom a personal relationship is essential to the salvation of one's soul. None of the nice, tolerant polytheism of Galactica's generic faith in "The Lords of Kobol." The Cylons are monotheists who believe that faith in their deity is the only way to eternal salvation. Tsk, tsk!

When Gaius is reluctant to subscribe to this religion, the Cylons "out" him as the traitor. He makes an eloquently insulting denunciation of the whole concept of religion as something appealing only to superstitious, mindless idiots in doing that, by the way. Only when he prays to the "one true god" and makes a commitment of exclusive faith in him do they intervene to bail him out.

Never have I seen such a blatant and transparent slander of the Christian faith on any television program or in any movie. Moreover, it isn't even only Christianity that's under attack here. Judaism, Islam, and any other religion with enough substance to believe that truth matters, that it is possible to be wrong about ultimate questions, and that being wrong has consequences were effectively identified with a race of heartless robots whose chief characteristic- other than a committed monotheism- is a genocidal hatred of the human race.

That Hollywood types think that way is no surprise; even if we hadn't noticed it ourselves, Michael Medved has been writing about that fact for years. But it's surprising and disturbing that they can put a TV program on the air which says it so transparently and openly- and apparently with no fear ot criticism from anyone they apparently feel that they need to worry about.

Will Christianity- and perhaps Judaism and Islam and every other religion with an ounce of substance- eventually be outlawed, and its adherents persecuted? It still seems a stretch. But then, before tonight I really didn't believe that the militant atheistic relativists would dare be quite so "in your face" about calling religious believers potentially genocidal Nazi robots.

So much for tolerance.

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