Get Your Epic Battles Straight!
Oct. 31st, 2011 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarah_senseiSo, my husband is going to RCIA classes (Rite of Catholic Initiation for Adults) because he wants to know more about being Christian and what it all means (not necessarily to convert). I am attending the classes with him and reading the book.
So, in this week's chapter I come across this confusing little analogy tidbit:
"Indeed, our best way of understanding [Revelation] may be to see it as a biblical 'Star Wars,' that is, as an epic presentation of the battle between good and evil. As in the 'Star Wars' movies, good is threatened as all kinds of monsters are unleashed by the forces of evil, but these are vanquished."
I don't think this guy has even seen "Star Wars." While I kinda agree with the first line, I seem to recall something about an evil empire, an angry kid who becomes Darth Vader and the Death Star... there really weren't that many monsters in it... (alien races are not monsters by default).
Wouldn't "Lord of the Rings" be a little more accurate in the whole monster department? :p
So, in this week's chapter I come across this confusing little analogy tidbit:
"Indeed, our best way of understanding [Revelation] may be to see it as a biblical 'Star Wars,' that is, as an epic presentation of the battle between good and evil. As in the 'Star Wars' movies, good is threatened as all kinds of monsters are unleashed by the forces of evil, but these are vanquished."
I don't think this guy has even seen "Star Wars." While I kinda agree with the first line, I seem to recall something about an evil empire, an angry kid who becomes Darth Vader and the Death Star... there really weren't that many monsters in it... (alien races are not monsters by default).
Wouldn't "Lord of the Rings" be a little more accurate in the whole monster department? :p
