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What Bush and Batman Have in Common
I don’t necessarily agree with the article, but it’s an interesting read.
I didn’t walk away form the movie believing it was a bastion of conservative and moral principles. However, I did find myself thinking about the lack of liberalism expressed in the film. I guess I’m so used to hearing President Bush quotes and 9/11/War on Terror references in every movie I see now (including this one, unfortunately), that I was slightly taken back that Batman wasn’t this anti-establishment hero that never had to kill* and Joker wasn’t the leader of a religious organization looking to take away your abortion rights.
I think art raises great questions, it’s not always the best place to seek answers.
What do you guys think?
*Although I cannot confirm nor deny that the batcycle was a hybrid
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Legislate Your Morals.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”-Matthew 22:37-40
So my brief stint of trying every blog software out there and also completely jacking up my theme is over. I learned an important lesson. It’s easily summed up in oh so simple words of one of our founding fathers:
Don’t go chasing waterfalls, just stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
So now we have (hopefully) a readable design and good content. Now all we need is readers.
One a sidenote: I will continue to keep up my tumblr blog and use it from time to time. My tumblr blog imports all my posts from wordpress (minus the comments) so you wont miss anything here is you only check there. I am going to try and keep this guy updated and we’ll see if we can keep the discussion going.
I was pondering war and Jesus tonight. I asked myself if Jesus would support the war in Iraq or any war for that matter. I don’t know. I don’t think so. Love your enemies definitely doesn’t sound like his hat in the ring. Blessed are the peacemakers, do to others as you would have them do to you…here’s a good one:
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Add in his love for the downtrodden and disdain for his local bureaucracy and it seems like Jesus would most definitely be against war.
How can we marry this image of God with the one we get in the old testament? A God who seemingly supported war and violence against his enemies and those of his people.
So we are left with a good question:
Does God changes his mind?
It’s not unprecedented, but it makes it hard to believe in an infallible God.
Let’s take a look at our current war for a second without getting too political. Simplifying it, republicans support the war (or at least did initially) and democrats don’t (or didn’t). Now, I won’t say ALL Christians are republicans but that is the traditional party affiliation (for some good and bad reasons), so I understand why Christians politically supported the war because they were supporting the consensus of one our their social groups, but what if they really thought about it…
I don’t think we can be social or religious Jesus followers but not political ones. Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength…he pretty much covered everything.
What do you guys think?
