Pretty cool that God has a long history of using non-Christian people and things to advance His purpose in ways we can’t understand.
Sometimes a movie is just a movie, and a book is just a book, and marketers will do what marketers do...
I read the book and maybe at that moment it had a little impact, but it is now forgotten. Maybe it is in the subconcious, I don’t know. Sometimes I think we do have to read some things to find out what is going on. However, we must be very discerning and sort it all out. I will not see the movie as I very much disagree with all the Hollywood nonsense.
We can be certain the Lord uses false religions and false teachers, or as in this case, an heretical book and it’s accompanying movie, to accomplish His sovereign will. Precious few will tolerate the truth. God simply gives many men what their fallen itching ears long to hear. That’s what judgment looks like. God doesn’t force them into error or cause them, or anyone else, to sin. All He need do is allow lost men to go their own way.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
—2 Timothy 4:3-4