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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“It was only Uhura that believed and got it. Kirk and McCoy only saw it from historical perspective, not religious.”
They thought they were worshipping the sun.
Uhura at the end pointed out that it was the Son.
A tad hokey for sci-fi purists but a good episode. I like the fake cheers and boos at the televised gladiator fights. It’s just like us.
The genius of the show seems to lie largely in the exploration of the failings of human nature and how we want to be better. None of that exists without a Creator creating humans "good" and then a Fall that mars the "good."
Doctor McCoy and Captain Kirk, at the end of the episode are on the Bridge of the Enterprise wondering about so advanced a culture they are surprised that the Romans on this planet were still Sun Worshipers. Lieutenant Uhura interrupts the conversation to say that she had been listening to the broadcasts from the planet and told them she realized that the Sun Worship they referred to was not the Sun, but the Son of God.
It made more of an impression on me than The Omega Glory episode did when the Yangs walked into the room with the torn and tattered American Flag, and still does to this day.
And that reminds me of the book, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek."
And lets not forget the character Flavius Maximus played by the equally interesting name, Rhodes Reason.
Hence my tag name.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Flavius_Maximus
Unlike the garbage nobody owns anything next generation
TOS is a space western. The next generation is commie crap.
There were a ton of quotes from TOS that can solidly apply to today’s hectic times.
It’s a little worse than that. They encourage dangerous and deadly behavior because they don’t care if people die or get hurt. They only care that they themselves appear virtuous by being on the “right side” of every issue.
BTTT
So....
what about STD?
Haha....
From OverLord:
“Star Trek Discovery Mocked Mercilessly! STD Xmas Ornament? HA!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njvoznxFJ8c
The genius of the show seems to lie largely in the exploration of the failings of human nature and how we want to be better.
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Pretty much the definition of good sci-fi. The space ships and fancy tech alone never mark good sci-fi. it’s the characters and the plot. Sci-fi just provides a bigger canvas to explore the human condition.
Ohhhh My Yessss!
That’s something people do because they are already depraved.
Think of Romans 1:18-32 as describing a perticularly dangerous on ramp to the broad way that leads to destruction (which would be refusing to retain the knowledge of the Lord).
Championing homosexuality is society is like a particularly notorious road sign to tell people who aren’t depraved something about those displaying the trait. But it turns out it isn’t the only or even the last possible such sign, and what was comedy and biting satire decades ago (including advocating for transgenderism) is just one thing people are doing for whom the sign listed in Romans 1 is simply passé and quaint.
On a more secular level have you ever seen Evan Sayet’s presentation on how so-called Liberals think? It’s not short but it’s worthwhile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c
You can’t read that part of Romans without Romans 2. Paul goes from condemning homosexuality to condemning self-righteous people just as harshly if not more.
Many parts are bad. The Pike stuff that I have seen is ok.
To see the indicated fruit on display in a life and acknowledge what it is and the significance it may have is not self-righteousness.
Perchance the reason WHY it looks like Romans 1:18-32 is going on all over the place in our society — which HAS been Gospel soaked even to this day — is because it is going on.
And if you look are the passage you will see that those most in danger at this time will not be the people who know very little about the Lord or the Gospel but those who are utterly without pretense, people basically playing church though they are unconverted.
There is probably significantly more hope to bring actual homosexuals to repentance than people displaying this fruit to repentance.
Of course the Lord can make proverbial camels to pass through the eyes of needles and just because someone champions homosexuality in society that does not mean that they’ve been turned over to reprobate minds EVEN THOUGH everyone who has been turned over to a reprobate mind will arguably display this fruit, without fail.
So, if you see people displaying this fruit flee from fellowship with them.
People should not be like Lot’s sons-in-law who clung to Sodom even though they arguably should have been aware (it being a small town by our standards) that a substantial number of men in the town had just been struck blind under strange circumstances. That alone should have warned them that something was amiss and maybe they should heed Lot.
We already seem to be in the falling away ... it’s basically time for everyone to choose Whom or what they will cling to.
Well, they did play “Amazing Grace” when sending Spock’s body out in the photon torpedo in that movie about the Genesis device. Spock did lay his life down for everyone... before being reborn...
That movie helped draw me to the LORD.
While it tries to be, only a cult would fit the description of the mindless devotion and extermination of those not "of the body." The Spanish Inquisition with the sword of medieval RCC comes close to this, though its deaths are usually exaggerated.
However, it illustrates where the increasingly required group think of the Wokests cult can lead to. "Have you been vaccinated against the Christian faith?"
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