Daniel Carrera wrote:
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
But Matrix is totally about religion,
Morpheus has faith, and perhaps Trinity, but that's about it. And even
that faith is not a religion. Prophecies don't make a religion.
Essentially Neo is the savior of the people, with the Arhitect as God
and the Oracle is Mary (in a sense, she was a co-God),
Ah, but at best, those are artistic analogies with Christianity
(Messiah, comming back from the dead, etc).
True, but I think the point is that Zion has a religion (or possibly
several) and the one that Morpheus believes in involves someone called
the one that will come and save them. Neo is a messiah in that religion.
Morpheus is kind of like a preacher in that religion, at least when he
is talking to all of the people.
The Oracle would be a prophet, like Mohammad (sp?).
Isn't prayer a way that people try to control religion? (Or in a more
cyncical sense people donated gobs of money.)
Believe it or not, prayer is not a way to control God and get him to do
what you want. God is under no obligation to listen to you. Prayer
essentially a conversation, and many also see it as *submission* to God.
So actually prayer would be the opposite of controlling.
Perhaps that is the intent, but in practice, don't people use prayer in
an attempt to control their life or the powers that be?
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