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DLW
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Date Joined Apr 2003
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Posted 8/2/2003 9:32 AM (GMT -6)

My mind turns to the end of Terminator III, where the protagonist waxes sentimentally about the Terminator/Arnold in the wake of the eminent destruction of most of human life on planet earth. The terminator was just a machine, devoid of compassion, telling him how things were goin' to be based on its knowledge of the future, although with the will to return to its original mission.

And yet it is regarded almost as a father by the protagonist. Even though it would eventually kill him in the future, it was seen as having given its live for him so that he and others could live.

That is why I think the Terminator series and the Matrix series will come to typify the differences between Traditional Christian Theology and more Open Christian Theology.
dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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