Avatar

Avatar is the incarnation or incarnated manifestation of a Hindu deity, a theory both characteristic of Vishnuism and marking a new epoch in the religious development of India.

Recently, the term avatar has been used to signify "an interactive representation of a human in a virtual reality environment", that is, an online persona used in computer gaming or internet communities.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is also the title of an animated television series which airs on Nickelodeon.

Avatar is the name of a film by James Cameron released in 2009. It has the highest unadjusted domestic and worldwide box office grosses of any film released.

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.)