"Bread and Circuses" commentary.
Posted on 05/25/2021 10:58:47 AM PDT by fishtank
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A popular atheist meme claims that there are no Christians on Star Trek "because it's the future."
But are there really no Christians on Star Trek? David Wood discusses the episode "Bread and Circuses," where Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy are captured by twentieth-century Romans, forced to fight in televised gladiator contests, and introduced to a strange, but familiar, religion.
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"Bread and Circuses" commentary.
This is the episode that had the Jupiter 8 sports car in it.
Check out Kirk with it.
https://historygarage.com/jupiter-8-star-trek-car-true-trekkie-know/
I immediately thought of this episode when I saw the title of the article.
Yup.
Back in the days when you could still discuss Christianity on TV and not only to use the name of Jesus as a cuss word.
The other day I responded to a guy claiming that teaching about Hell was a form of terrorism.
In it I also covered a contention that I’ve often made that people today are so out of touch with what holiness means that they often seem to imagine that if they were to find themselves in Isaiah’s slippers they would expect to receive a pat on the back for being so nice and tolerant.
But many of these nice and tolerate people are murdering their own posterity, championing perverted acts, and now even championing madness where people think transgenderism is real rather than subsiding into bad fantasy.
It was only Uhura that believed and got it. Kirk and McCoy only saw it from historical perspective, not religious.
Uhura was a believer, no doubt. But Uhura had been able to monitor the communications and broadcasts of System 892. When Uhura told Kirk what she had heard, Kirk understood. In fact, Kirk said, "Caesar and Christ. They had them both. And the Word is spreading only now."
Yeah. Roddenberry.
A mixed bag often comes from a mixed mind.
One of the best, or possibly the best episode of the series.
It is?
I take it more as Anti-Communist, as Kirk stands up for individuality against collectivism.
Agree !
"Return of the Archons" is a Star Trek trope about the dangers technology has on individuality and humanity. In these episodes, Kirk often convinces the technology to self-destruct.
See also:
"The Ultimate Computer"
"What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
"I, Mudd"
Tonight we have for you a live national broadcast of a simple execution.
The best anti-communist one was “The Omega Glory” episode.
-PJ
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