
Did you already watched the disaster movie 2012? well I have. Actually I was one of those who stood on the line during the first day just to watch this most anticipated film. This was, I think the first film which had a long queue of people waiting in line on cinemas in our hometown. In fact, the demand to see the movie was so strong that the SM management here in my place opened another theater just to accommodate moviegoers who wanted to watch how the world would end in 2012.
If some of you haven’t watched the film yet, well there’s nothing much new really except for the fact that the director has this obsession of blowing up major international landmarks such as the white house, New York, Rio De Janeiro, St. Peter’s Basilica, the Himalayas and now, the Yellow Stone Park. Speaking of blowing up, we already seen such catastrophic event in the film Independence day wherein the director also destroyed major cities in the US due to alien invasion.
Roland Emmerich is undeniably good when it comes to obliterating the world and terminating the human species. I admit, that even I enjoyed the scenes. It’s so lifelike and real.
But then again this movie was almost good to my taste until I noticed something peculiar.
There were obvious atheistic undertone in the movie. Some scenes showed Moslems and Catholics praying fervently before God for deliverance but to no avail. ceilings crumbled over them and men died praying for salvation. It is as if it was suggesting that No God can save human beings from termination except by hiring a private plane and pursuing a map in Yellowstone park to go to china in order to slip at the back door of the ark… Also, anywhere in the film, NO faith has been emphasized. It was all too obvious that 2012 is telling us that when doomsday comes, it is only man and a little bit luck can save himself from total annihilation.
Another one is, when the movie began showing Landmarks and Cities collapsing, including Rio De Janeiro’s giant Jesus Statue and the Vatican’s St. Peter’s cathedral and the Sistine Chapel, I was waiting for other religious shrine to be destroyed. The Ankor Wat in Cambodia? The Mecca in Saudi Arabia? The Pyramid of Giza? or the Giant Buddha in Thailand? uh-uh, none of them were destroyed. Wonder why?
It’s because Roland Emmerich is afraid of the Fatwa. I quote from the Guardian :
“I wanted to do that, I have to admit,” Emmerich told scifiwire.com. “But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. “We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. “So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out.”
So what Emmerich is saying is, “let us not destroy Islamic sites lest they might retaliate. Let’s just bombard Vatican and Catholic shrines and symbols because they can do nothing”.
Roland Emmerich is a Marxist by political ideology and an Atheist by religion. He doesn’t believe in any God except for himself, much like what most atheists stand for. Atheist has been very aggressive and vocal against the Catholic church yet nowhere in their blogs or in their statements would you find any prejudice against Moslems because it is clear that Christianity is a fair game precisely because Christians cannot hurt them. It is taught in one’s Christian upbringing that it’s not our nature to revenge. That’s why Hollywood with the likes of Emmerich can ridicule and lambaste catholicism and Christianity however they like since Christians are taught not to retaliate… Classic.
This is the main reason why I don’t believe in Atheistic Ideologies. They are cowards who bully Christians who doesn’t take offense against them. It’s like they are in the Children’s park, bullying only the kids who they know they can obviously overpower without having the threat of retaliation.
I am not saying that Islamic sites should be destroyed in the film. All I’m saying is that, if Emmerich is really against organized religion, then don’t pick on the ones he can easily bully. If Emmerich really believes that there is no God, then why not destroy even the Islamic Holy sites?
He can’t and he’ll never will.
Because he is afraid of the Fatwa or any attacks coming from the Moslem extremist or a worldwide protest against him by the Moslem community.
Same with atheist, they pick on Christians on their blogs as an easy target yet they can’t even have the balls to stand their ground against Moslems.
Cowards!
Christians are not cowards, they have learned the meaning of restraint from the Son Of God. Jesus said No one takes my life, I have the power to lay it down and the power to take it up again. The weakness that the world tries to brand the Christian with is all a matter of the regeneration of the world in eternal time. Christ second coming will be one of absolute power and authority and that is when the world will understand that even the perceived weakness of the Christian is more powerful than all the strength of the worlds evil and rebellion combined. We are part of the body of Christ which is being formed and the APPOINTED MOMENT, the Father will transform it all. So we are not weak we are waiting!
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Another thing that I do not like in the film is the fact that all people from the poor nations are annihilated. The Chinese workers were just spared becuase somebody pitied their lot.
The filmmaker is saying that the gene pool of poor people is not worthy for the post apocalyptic civilization.
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