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==Anti-conservative content in James Cameron's Avatar==

==Anti-conservative content in James Cameron's Avatar==

''Avatar'' is laced with pessimistic and anti-Christian messages about [[environmentalism]]. The film also imputes base motives to the [[War on Terror]] in several instances. At one point, the major villain, a [[USMC]] colonel, commends his protégé on his military service in [[Nigeria]] and [[Venezuela]]. It is subtly implied that [[US]] actions in these countries in some unspecified point in the future were carried out for the sole purpose of securing the last commercially viable oil deposits on Earth. During the production of the film, however, dangerous [[Communist]] dictator [[Hugo Chavez]] was in power in Venezuela and Nigerian [[Muslim]] [[terrorist]] [[Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab]] acted mere months after the film's release. Worst of all, ''Avatar'' presents a religious worldview both [[materialistic]] and [[pagan]]. The natives of Pandora, the fictional [[moon]] on which the film takes place, are said to enter the [[afterlife]] only through the physical duplication of their minds in a kind of [[neural network]] distributed across the roots of the many trees all over densely-forested Pandora. In other words, a [[reductionist]] view of [[consciousness]] is taken which does not account for the immaterial [[soul]]; [[heaven]] is only attained by the transfer of one material [[brain]] into another. (Expand.)

''Avatar'' is laced with pessimistic and anti-Christian messages about [[environmentalism]]. At one point, the major villain, a [[USMC]] colonel, commends his protégé on his military service in [[Nigeria]] and [[Venezuela]]. It is subtly implied that [[US]] actions in these countries in some unspecified point in the future were carried out for the sole purpose of securing the last commercially viable oil deposits on Earth. During the production of the film, however, dangerous [[Communist]] dictator [[Hugo Chavez]] was in power in Venezuela and Nigerian [[Muslim]] [[terrorist]] [[Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab]] acted mere months after the film's release. ''Avatar'' presents a religious worldview both [[materialistic]] and [[pagan]]. The natives of Pandora, the fictional [[moon]] on which the film takes place, are said to enter the [[afterlife]] only through the physical duplication of their minds in a kind of [[neural network]] distributed across the roots of the many trees all over densely-forested Pandora. In other words, a [[reductionist]] view of [[consciousness]] is taken which does not account for the immaterial [[soul]]; [[heaven]] is only attained by the transfer of one material [[brain]] into another. In addition, cursing the [[Lord]] is a common theme throughout the movie. Besides the anti-Christian theme, Avatar is focused on anti-American portrayals. The film imputes base motives to the [[War on Terror]] in several instances. The greedy, heartless invaders exist only to destroy others. Macho warrior characters attack the unprovoked innocent, only to be repelled with help from those that have a conscience objection to the war and become traitors among them. The animated film is nothing original; jungle scenes like Star Wars Revenge of the Jedi, mechanized fighting machines like in Alien, and much liberal hype due to special effects.

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