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In Response to my thoughts on "V"

I agreed with your point partially about how "it was an example of what people can do with Christianity on a political level to justify things." This movie did address this in a way. However, this movie reminded me of what a totalitarian government can do, not necessarily with Christianity, but with any religion that can be accepted by the people. The Christianity was not the ultimate tool being used-It was merely an idea used to further reinforce the ideas of a select few. This movie showed the raping of the Christian idea and relegating it to a few select points while hopelessly twisting every other good and right idea of the religion. If observed from a slightly different angle, it also showed the dangers of an over-institutionalized Christianity. By this, I mean, what happens when people focus more on fixed ideas of Christianity, where the church is more important than the faith in God. The Government portrayed in "V" seemed to be one where the prime minister was turned into a god of the religion. This government reminded me of what Hitler did in Nazi Germany, convincing the people of seeming truths and controlling their actions through a type of state religion in which the people lived to serve the state. My point is essentially summed up where you write "People use Christianity to fight for or against women, homosexuality, violence, war".they can twist the bible to find any position they want." This is just a sad fact of the world we live in. People will use religion, whether it is Islam, Christianity, or any other religion, as an excuse to fight a war and further a cause that is unjust. This movie, though fiction in the way it was told, is not that much different from our twisted reality of modern religion. ~Sam

posted by Kerry at 7:40 PM