Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion

pajor writes "BBC News is reporting that that The Matrix Reloaded has been banned in Egypt. The country's censorship board cited violence which might 'harm social peace', but also said the 'religious themes' of the film's storyline, about the search for the creator and control of the human race, may cause 'crises'. A statement said: 'Despite the high technology and fabulous effects of the movie, it explicitly handles the issue of existence and creation, which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.'"

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Re:Unfortunatly

[ConsumedByTV]

Their government is totally different from ours in the sense of a strong religious background that is the foundation of law making.

So you don't live in america?

Because our morality and legal system certianly has it's roots with christ.

Excuse me, BUT What 3 Religions?

[Nom du Keyboard]

it explicitly handles the issue of existence and creation, which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.

Excuse me, BUT can anybody name the three religions that all Egyptains respect and believe? Last time I counted there was only one, and it was out to exterminate the rest of them.

Re:Yeah, within a virtual system

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you not noticed that everyone who sees The Matrix is a philosopher for a day?
They normally would laugh at the thought of reading Descartes, Plato, Baudrillard, Nietzsche, etc, but when they see the pop-culture, hollow corpse of the afore-mentioned writers works, they are automatically philosophers.
If you think too much you probably wouldn't buy anything I was selling without at least close inspection.
Don't you get it? Have a Sprite*, be "original"?

*Or whatever soft drink is being crammed down your throat every commercial break and marketed as "original".

Sort of went off track with this, but I feel it applies to religion as well.

Re:And How Do the People Feel?

[kubrick]

Does the fact that we can say anything mean that we should say everything? I've noticed a certain "anything that can be said, should be said" mentality in a lot of my fellow Ameicans, and I wonder how valid it is. Thoughts?

I'd rather make that decision myself than have someone else make it for me.

(I'm not American, though, so obviously I'm not qualified to comment on this... after all, human rights are so well respected by the American Government.)

Almost

[varjag]

Islamists call the people of Israel and all countries that support Israel (esp. the U.S.) 'Zionists', referring I'm sure to Mt. Zion...

To be precise, they are referring to Zionism, a racist ideology very popular in Israel.

Re:Yeah, within a virtual system

[bitrott]

Oh PUHLEASE. Reloaded SUCKED. It was boring, trite and inane. Do you REALLY think anyone left the building wanting more pap philosophy from their movies? Why would that be a good thing anyway? Do you really think there's some Hollywood exec out there thinking, hmm, it really (DIDN'T LOOK AT THE MEDIOCRE BOX OFFICE RECIPTS) worked for Reloaded, let's film several more crap movies with shitty half assed philosophy. Furthermore, noone left Reloaded and signed up for a goddamn intro to philosophy class. At the most they bought the novelization of the movie and bored their girlfriend to tears blithering on about the shite.

Matrix Reloaded is the quest for the holly grail

[peu]

the old symbol of masculinity was an inverted V which is ^ (today it retains the ^ part)
the symbol of feminity was the opposite=V
the holy grail is a symbol
the cup is how whe know the grail resembles the symbol of feminity V, the uterus (also called the matrix), the V formed in the pelvic area

so: feminine =V masculine=^

at this point we can say that the quest for the holy grail is the quest for the holy woman or the sacred feminine
who destroyed the sacred feminine? = the church

why?

in the begginings of church times, it was believed that the way to god is in the union of man and woman
the culminant moment of that union is orgasm (still used today: did you saw god face? when talking about sex)
church have its roots on the bible
the bible was written by men, who wanted to put a man as the leader, a man as the god
so, if now to see god is enough with a man, you must throw the woman out of the loop.

then, again at this point, whe can agree that the quest for the holy grail is the quest for the sacred feminine, the quest of the V, the quest for the MATRIX

who is against of the revelation (revelation is quasi the name of the next movie: revolution) of the truth of the grial? = the church

why?

because it means erasing 2000 years of bad propaganda for the woman, begining with blaming her of the original sin, for being inferior because she was created from a rib of man, and for saying that Jesus woman was a prostitute

whaaat?

Jesus wasn't divine, he had the bloodline of the families of King David and King Solomon, which means, he was meant to be the king of jewish.
Being in his 30ies jesus, a Jew, was supposed to be married, or at least with a woman, at that time was the same.
in fact he was married... with maria magdalena
look in the painting by Leoanardo DaVinci the last supper, who is on jesus right does she look like a man? not at all, she is in fact MM, jesus wife, seated at his right. And speaking of symbology, look the figure formed by Jesus and MM, a big V right in the center of the picture.
Maria Magdalena was no prostitute at all, she was in fact a descendant of Benjamin, another jew tribe King.
this union have desdendants.

say whaaaat?

exactly, now it seems logical to thing that the quest for the holy grail is not the quest for the holy woman, but the quest of whats inside the holy woman, inside the V, inside the uterus, INSIDE THE MATRIX
To reinforce this, Holy Grail root is Santo grial, whis is rooted in Sangreal, which also is rooted in sangreal, and if you split sagreal you have sang real, sangre real, and you guessed: holy blood

does it make any sense the MATRIX-GRAIL relation yet? not really, I go on

Its supposed that MM was pregnant at the time of jesus crucifiction, she was rescued by jesus uncle and moved to Gaul (Rome province, actually France) which was cared as a king daughter by the local jew community

This holy blood line developed in secrecy in france, and is believed that the founders of paris were in this line too

guess their names: Merovingian

ring any bell already?

What does the merovingian hides in the play? they hide the keymaker, an obvious allegory of the keystone which reveals the secret of the holy grail.

This secret is protected by the line of the holy blood, the templars and a secret priory: the priory of sion (look the web for it) which is believed that Leonardo Davinci was part, along with the merovingians, isaac newton and many others.

priory of sion, ring any bell already?

so, its time for my conclusion:

all of the neo's questions about what is the matrix, are in fact questions on who are his parents, his origins.

or better yet

neo is still insi

Re:You must not be human

[Lazyhound]

Holy shit, you're a pretentious ass! Way to go!