The Religious Legacy of “Tron”
December 18, 2010 at 9:30 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Christianity, Deism, Ecumenicalism, Hollywood, Jeff Bridges, Judaism, New Age, NewsReal Blog, religion, The Concession Stand, Tron, Tron: Legacy
by Walter Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Featuring computer graphics which where state-of-the-art in 1982, Disney’s Tron became a cult classic among science fiction fans. While the film has not aged well, its high-concept has contributed to its endurance.
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Tron was its role as religious allegory. The film depicted a computer-generated world where programs were created in the image of their human users. Those users were thus viewed as deities from the programs’ perspective. The villains in the film were aberrant programs who sought to wrest control of the system in which they operated. To this end, they propagated the idea that the users did not exist. When programmer Kevin Flynn is pulled into their digital realm, he takes on the role of religious avatar, challenging the programs’ paradigm.
The long-awaited sequel, Tron: Legacy, takes the allegory much further. The Judeo-Christian references are quite bold for a modern Hollywood production. Yet the writers are clearly not attempting to evangelize a particular faith. Quite the contrary, the religious legacy of Tron is an ecumenical mix of various faiths which dispenses with the notion of an all-powerful God. The film suggests that creation is an unpredictable phenomenon which can baffle and surpass its creator. As we consider how this plays out, be warned, there will be spoilers.
“Agenda: Grinding America Down,” NewsReal Interviews Filmmaker Curtis Bowers
December 6, 2010 at 7:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Academic Infidels, Agenda: Grinding America Down, Agendas of the Left, Christianity, Communisim, Communist Party USA, education, Group Think, Hollywood, homeschooling, In The Family Way, Judaism, NewsReal Blog, politics, religion, social engineering, Socialism, Tactics of the Left, tea party, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Glenn Beck has, with evermore frequency, paused to appreciate the extent to which his beliefs have changed in recent years. He has come to accept the existence of agendas which he would have dismissed as conspiracy theory only a few years ago. His experience has not been unique.
Many concerned citizens, possessed by an instinctive sense that the country is on the wrong track, have sought to understand why. Among them is Curtis Bowers, a former Idaho state representative and auteur of an outstanding new documentary film called Agenda: Grinding America Down.
Produced independently by Bowers and his immediate family, Agenda nonetheless stands toe-to-toe with the best professionally produced films of its type. The production quality is top notch. The content is relevant. Best of all, the information is structured in a rational, topical, and compelling manner.
Bowers shines light upon the communist movement in America, connecting the dots from Karl Marx through the Fabian socialists to ACORN and the Communist Party USA. The result is a scathing exposé the likes of which has driven the Left nuts.
“Religulous:” 9 Answers to Bill Maher’s Anti-Religious Zealotry
November 28, 2010 at 4:45 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: atheism, Bill Maher, Christianity, Doubt, freedom of religion, Hollywood, Judaism, NewsReal Blog, religion, Religulous, richard dawkins, Sam Harris, Skepticism, Steven Weinberg, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
This much I guarantee, if you care at all about the world in which you live and hold to a particular view which dictates how that world may be improved, you will be offended by what you are about to read. Given the nature of the subject matter, provocation cannot be avoided. We’re going to exam the most sacred and fundamental beliefs which undergird our thoughts, feelings, traditions, and actions. We’re going to consider ideas people die for. We’re going to consider about ideas people kill for. We’re going to do so because debate has sprung up in America, and around the world, regarding whether people of faith ought to have the right to live according to their beliefs. The stakes of that debate are nothing less than individual liberty, and extend to matters life and death.
One of the chief voices in popular culture articulating the anti-religion argument is Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time and among the most antagonistic leftist ideologues participating in our public discourse. In 2008, Maher produced Religulous, a documentary-style film in which he interviews “some of religion’s oddest adherents.” The film is more than a critique of religion. It is a call to arms for the purpose of uprooting and destroying religion. Cinema Blend critic Josh Tyler articulated the purpose succinctly.
Early on in Religulous, Bill Maher throws up a bar chart illustrating the number of people in America who are non-religious. That number is 16%, more than blacks, more than Jews, more than numerous other minority groups who seem to have no problem making themselves heard and getting Congress to do their bidding. Maher wonders aloud why non-religious people are so underground, and why they aren’t having an impact on the national discussion. His film is aimed squarely at that 16% of the country, and almost no one else. His goal, and he clearly has one, is to give those people the motivation they need to come out of the closet and do something… before it’s too late.
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Will 2012 Bring the End of the World As We Know It?
October 19, 2010 at 6:05 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: 2012, Christianity, David Icke, Hollywood, Jacque Fresco, João Amorim, Judaism, New Age, NewsReal Blog, The Concession Stand, Time for Change, Venus Project
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
When I was younger, I used to enjoy listening to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM, an overnight radio talk show devoted to fringe topics like the paranormal, conspiracy theories, and UFOs. A recurring subject was the end of the world. One of the apocalyptic prophecies commonly discussed was derived from the Mayan calendar and its final date of December 21, 2012.
To a teenager coming of age in the ‘90’s, 2012 seemed a long way off. Since then, talk of 2012 and what it may bode has escalated. There was even an over-the-top disaster film tackling the subject last spring.
As the date draws near, focus has shifted from anticipating the end of the world to anticipating the end of an age. Priests of the New Thought, like self-described “conspiriacist” David Icke, speak of a coming “enlightenment” or “awakening” or “shift in consciousness.” Continue Reading Will 2012 Bring the End of the World As We Know It?…
“V” Is For Victory: 10 Brazenly Conservative Themes in ABC’s Alien Invasion Remake
October 18, 2010 at 1:34 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: ABC, Christian idolatry, Cloward-Piven Strategy, cult of personality, Devil, Environment, environmentalism, family values, Fundamental Transformation, Green Jobs, health care, Hollywood, Jouralism, Judaism, Lucifer, NewsReal Blog, parenting, propaganda, Rules for Radicals, Socialsim, The Concession Stand, Trojan Horse, V
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
It’s not the kind of entertainment you’ve come to expect from Hollywood. ABC’s remake of the 1983 television miniseries V tackles plainly modern issues from a decisively conservative perspective.
Though the science fiction and fantasy genres are often utilized to comment on controversial political issues, the messages conveyed are typically left of center. Star Trek is perhaps the consummate example of a science fiction show which impressed upon its audience a leftist view of culture, religion, and politics. Its back-story presented an Earth which had progressed beyond divisions of race, nationality, religion, and politics. The United Federation of Planets was a stand in for the United Nations, portrayed as a wholly benevolent entity unburdened by corruption. The message was explict. This can be our future. We can cast off sin through sheer force of will and craft a post-modern utopia. Continue Reading “V” Is For Victory: 10 Brazenly Conservative Themes in ABC’s Alien Invasion Remake…
Atheist Richard Dawkins Fails Religion 101
October 12, 2010 at 12:30 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Bill Maher, Christianity, HBO, Hollywood, Judaism, NewsReal Blog, Real Time with Bill Maher, religion, richard dawkins, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Richard Dawkins is one of my favorite people. The evangelical atheist provides boundless entertainment weaving snarky pseudo-intellectual rants against believers. There’s something about watching someone so confident of their infallibility, yet so effortlessly humbled that is immensely satisfying.
Together with Religulous host and fellow militant atheist Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time, Dawkins recently demonstrated an embarrassing ignorance of the most fundamental aspect of religion. Continue Reading Atheist Richard Dawkins Fails Religion 101…
The Ancient Republic of Israel
June 19, 2010 at 5:11 am | Posted in Political, Religous | Leave a commentTags: Christianity, Israel, Judaism, king, liberty, politics, religion, republic, Samuel, tyranny
Fightin Words on Sentinel Radio with Walter Hudson and David Lutchen. Chris Naron, RightNation’s “Conservative Mindcleaner,” was scheduled to join us to discuss the transition of the ancient nation of Israel from a republic under God to a despotic kingdom. There are lessons applicable to today’s American nation, as Thomas Paine detailed in his revolutionary pamphlet “Common Sense.” Naron was unable to make it, but we carried on. He will join us next week.
Tea Party Should Shrug Off Atlas
March 9, 2010 at 6:32 am | Posted in Political, Religous, Society and Culture | 13 CommentsTags: Atlas Shrugged, ayn rand, Christianity, Judaism, objectivism, tea party
by Walter Scott Hudson, Op-Ed for the New Patriot Journal
Tea Partiers should be wary of the ideology underlying a novel popular within the movement. Signs reading “Who is John Galt?” became a common sight at rallies last year. They reference Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand, which is considered an affirmation of individual rights and the free market. However, according to a central advocate of Rand’s worldview, there is a deeper message within the novel which the Tea Party must embrace if it hopes to affect libertarian change.
On February 23rd, in a lecture hall at the University of Minnesota, Rand advocate Craig Biddle, editor of The Objective Standard and author of “Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It,” delivered a presentation entitled “Capitalism: The Only Moral Social System.” Biddle argued capitalism is the only system which recognizes the requirements for human life. Those requirements, according to the Objectivist philosophy Biddle advocates, are productivity and rational thought.
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