Christian themes emerging in games

[The-Doctor]

I had a suprise recently while playing "enter the Matrix" on my PS2. One of trhe characters said that the Philospher Kierkegaarde taught that belief had nothing to do with logic. Belief does not ask the how or why because it doens not need to. I was moved to go look up about Kierkegaarde who was a danish philosopher and the father of existentialism apparently. He had a lot to say about stuff but what the script in the game said was really simple and i'd say pretty write. From this I spoke to a group of christians who I meet with at work and discussed it with them. God is getting his message out one way or another. Anyway I'm writing an article for our magazine at work on my experiance and the issues of belief and faith and just wandered if anyone else had had similar experiances.
Your comments please

 

[Kelly]

The Matrix as a franchise is wrought with quasi religious and philisophical undertones.

 

[The-Doctor]

thanks for your reply

 

[paulewog]

Personally, I'd really hate to be associated as a "Christian" if all someone knew about Christianity was from a movie or game about The Matrix.

That'd be like seeing someone as a "conservative" if all they knew about conservatives came from liberals, heh.

Ther eis such thing as integrity in the way the message is put out/by whom it is stated....

 

[The-Doctor]

Not at all. i dont associate being a christian with watching "the Matrix" It was just something that a character in teh console game said that prompted me to do a bit of research on the subject of belief.

 

[Kelly]

Yeah, Paul...I don't think anyone is getting their idea of our faith from the Matrix. It has all sorts of comparisons and similarities to faith and philosophies hidden in it, it's part of the fun of watching it.

 

[Speshull Edd]

I don't see it. It was just a movie for me.

 

[Max the Ax]

To understand the "Matrix" and other movies produced by the Wachowski Brothers (now a brother and a sister), you firstly need to understand that these persons are deep readers, they do a tremendous amount of research into different areas. But the beliefs that they intertwine into their productions are a mixed bag of goods. Unfortunately, most of it is subtly rooted in eastern mysticism.