Christmas Movie Hit Promotes Pantheism

By Bill Bray

Special to ASSIST News Service

WILLIAMSBURG, VA (ASSIST News) – The Christmas box office mega hit Avatar carries a dangerously pro-pantheism message according to Christian critics and student workers who reviewed the film here during it’s opening days.

     Avatar opened days before the Christmas school break, pulling in $77 million on the first weekend.  That box office gross was six times more than the second place Christmas film from Disney, The Princess and the Frog. Despite bad weather across much of the country, Avatar pulled in an average of $22,313 per screen, almost guaranteeing that it will be the blockbuster hit of the coming Christmas film season.

     The stunningly beautiful science fiction film from the producers of Titanic features Sigourney Weaver as a scientist defending an indigenous population from invasion by humans. The humans use military might to exploit the planet Pandora for its mineral wealth, destroying the environment and trampling on both the religious beliefs and culture of the local inhabitants.

      The film clearly contradicts biblical revelation about the true God and promotes the ideas that form the fundamental beliefs of animism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism.  The film is a very attractive and intellectually up to date representation of some very old false doctrines about the nature of creation.

      The film will have a strongly anti-Christian impact, promoting pluralism and giving pseudo scientific validation to the idea that God inhabits and animates nature, and even that nature should be worshipped.

About the writer:  Bill Bray is a frequent contributor to ASSIST News Service and also serves as president of the Overseas Students Mission based in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is currently in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia leading international students on a Christmas tour to expose to them the biblical roots of the American Revolution and Christian culture. Next week, he travels to St. Louis for ASSIST News to report on the Urbana09 student missions’ conference.