The Gospel According to Neo

Xel writes "Josh Burek, writer for The Christian Science Monitor and A.K.A. the guy who sits 4 cubicles from me, has written an excellent essay on religion in The Matrix: The Gospel According to Neo. Sure, this topic has been covered ad nauseum, but it's refreshing to see such a thoughful examination aimed not at geeks alone but a broader, more traditional, and more traditionally religious audience. It also has a nice little glossary at the end where even pasty-faced and vinyl-clad Matrix worshippers may find some easter eggs they didnt know."

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I think

[Anonymous Coward]

That neo is a fucking faggot

Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's just a movie franchise, and not a very good one at that.

4 tix

[Anonymous Coward]

I just bought 4 tickets to see The Matrix Reloaded on MAY 14TH at 10:00PM. It's supposed to come out on the 15th, so I'm going to see it a whole day before you all!! So all you morons can SUCK IT

How is christanity relevant?

[Dave Burbank]

As far as U am concerned from a tech perspective, religion is a idiot filter that allows me to idenitify the morons.

It's rather open ended...

[I'm a racist.]

While I'm vehemently against philosophical discussions based upon The Matrix, I will say that it is a pretty open framework for ideas. Taking that into account, any religious douchebag will be attracted to it, like a moth to a flame (like a jew to a dollar, like a fly to shit, ...), as a platform from which to prosyletize [sic?].

You can bend the concept to support just about any argument. Bullshit spiritual arguments rely heavily on things like this, since they don't have any real legs to stand on.

There is nothing insightful about anything anyone has written about "the philosophy" of this movie. It's just a movie. Enjoy it, move on, have a real life.

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You're a geek. You have no life. I know this. I'm not picking on you. Don't get so upset, just because I (and most people, for that matter) find the things you base your life around to be rather meaningless.

It's just a movie. I know it seems really important to you... but, it's not. Go get laid. Not by some fat girl either. Have some real sex (even if you have to pay for it), then you'll see my point of view.

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Re:Whatever...

[Anonymous Coward]

let's not forget that BUSHIE BOY wants a "Christian" THEOCRACY to run the USA... and that is FASCISTIC IN NATURE.

The real Axis of Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

Christians, Jews, Muslims

Sayence

[CausticWindow]

Christian Science Monitor

I don't care what cultish rituals they dabble, but don't call it science.

Who modded this funny?

[RatBastard]

Will you all with mod points get a freaking clue? Or do you all just want to run around with your heads up your asses and your feet in your mouths?

There is nothing funny about the parent post. The poster was not making a joke. The poster was providing factual information.

Do us all a favor: If you have no idea of what the poster is talking about, don't make yourself look like an idiot by modding them incorrectly.

You're a dumbass.

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy crap! There goes literature. Whoops, so much for high school english classes reading the classics.

Um, yeah... literature is a pretty worthless subject. It's for entertainment only. People go into writing, typically, because they can't do anything else that is useful. The major exceptions to that rule are scientists who also write.

Well, hell. I guess I can't learn anything about musical styles and chording from anything other than example pieces specifically designed for music theory classes.

You can learn music from music. Trying to learn anything else from it (other than some really tangential things, like differential equations) is just fucking retarded.

Any creative work is going to have the potential for underlying deeper meanings.

Then how to you explain rap? Oh, wait, that's not creative.... Okay, how do you explain all the cookie-cutter pop-culture shit out there today? Does Hit Me Baby, One More Time have any deeper meaning (beside "Deeper! Deeper!", of course).

...quit flaming the people who like a bit of depth, even if they have to make it themselves

Fuck you. I'll flame whoever I damn well please, you ignorant shitmonkey. If someone doesn't want to get picked on for not having a life, maybe they should go get a fucking life.

If you don't like being called a fat fuck, lose weight. If you don't like being called a dirty bastard, take a shower.

When some useless motherfucker parades his lifestyle/interests/hobbies in front of me, I have every damn right in the world to say bad things about him.

Down with Saudi Arabia!!!

Holy too many blank lines, batman!

[Zeriel]

Perhaps if you'd paid attention in those literature classes you dismiss, you'd have noted that I said
"Any creative work is going to have the potential for underlying deeper meanings."
My statement was not absolute, despite your attempt to treat it as such.

In general, no one cares about your flames until you earn some credibility. As it stands, all you've done is prove yourself incapable of basic reading comprehension.

BTW, which is worse, a geeky useless hobby or flaming said hobbies as a hobby in and of itself?