Posted on 07/19/2019 8:45:51 AM PDT by Morgana
You could say the Ori clerics were also dressed like Buddhist monks. The chant is just that a chant. Satanists also use chants.
Whatever.
As I said, we all see things differently.
BTW, this is from the composer of the music for the Ori:
Music
Composer Joel Goldsmith’s inspiration for the Ori themes were the “certain parallels to what’s happening today, in modern day”. He admits that the music of the Ori was intentionally given a gothic, Gregorian and Christian feel. He tried to meld a few different styles.[9]
(From the link posted previously)
The risible irony of this premise is that plenty of examples of this exact conduct are extant throughout the Muslim world.
I can't think of a single example in a regional or national Christian paradigm where such rules of forced pregnancy and breeding was allowed, but from the inception of Islam, this has been the norm, reinforced by the Koran and Hadith.
I had to study the book in High School, and it was nowhere *NEAR* as shrill as the TV adaptation is making it out to be.
Reading the book, it was very clear to me that Atwood had meant for it to be a speculative story, and not a piece of shrill propaganda.
The Church sadly is in a cold schism.
That is why I use BIGTIME Biblical commentaries for those two books.
Ditto. It's not Margaret Atwood that is pushing the most extreme "Christian Taliban" nonsense about the current administration. And, of course, the first season of The Handmaid's Tale would have been in development well before Donald Trump announced his candidacy. IMO it would have made a pretty good one-season miniseries, as season 1 was a faithful adaptation of the novel. It's subsequent seasons that get increasingly shrill and preachy.
(Not to mention that if current trends continue, by the time the series ends, episodes will consist exclusively of Elisabeth Moss staring into the camera while 80s hits play on the soundtrack.)
I recall the original story (book) was science fiction — some future where human conception was hugely impaired and it was about some high politician taking advantage of their authority -—
Kinda (but not quite) like Billary and Hillary and Epstein ??? (that will be an interesting future ‘series’ )
Not religious people: Not Hindu people. Not Buddhist people. NOT MUSLIM PEOPLE!
Christian people. Even the so-called right publishes propaganda.
And they beat the Ori in the end by showing a super-technological device to the Pryors that nullifies the irrational religious belief, ending the “insanity” of the religion and the energy feed to the Ori.
The tragic irony is that she was right - about fundamentalist Islam.
ISIS, Boko Haram and Al Shabab have had slavery and sex slavery. ISIS had AUNTS, female enforcers beating women for not adhering to the dress code and women who supervised the sex slaves.
In this regard, she was prescient. Problem is, she was irrationally afraid of Christianity. Plus liberals are so Christophobic. That’s why “The Handmaid’s Tale” is required reading by so many college students, thus creating the large fan base for the show AND public knowledge of it.
Yet liberals are so irrationally protective of Islam that they ignore the actual Taliban killing school girls and ISIS sex slaves ... while smearing Christian neighbors as wanna-be Taliban, just eager to rape their liberal neighbors into submission.
Well, to be at least a little bit fair to Atwood, she made it fairly clear in a few interviews way back then, that Christianity, in and of itself, was not what concerned her. What concerned her were a few of the strains of more cult-like fundamentalism (including prosperity gospel), such as that promulgated by a few of the highly-visible TV evangelists of the seventies and eighties. In those same interviews, she freely admits that Tammy-Faye Bakker’s eighties TV persona was a partial inspiration for the Serena Fox character in the book.
But she also stressed that the book was sci-fi and a speculative story: a ‘what if’ scenario, and not some sort of political screed.
Hmmmmm...Thanks for that info. Since I didn’t follow the series after the second Ori episode, I didn’t know that.
Interesting.
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