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	Podcast:		Let's Talk About It
	Episode:		The Avatar Connection: Good Movies With a Spiritual Theme
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
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	Publish Date:		2010-01-22 16:00:00
	Description:		Have you seen the eight-foot tall, Druid-blue aliens who sound like hybrid clones made from DNA donated by Al Gore, Jet Li and Deepak Chopra? Without giving the whole plot away-in case you are one of a half-dozen Unity people on the planet who hasn't seen Avatar yet-this week Dr. Shepherd and his panel of distinguished guests will take a look at good movies with a spiritual theme, especially the new 3-D sci-fi epic. Avatar raises ecological issues about the conflict between industrial economies and simpler societies. The film also looks seriously at theological anthropology (i.e., what is the real nature of personhood?), strongly suggests the scientific reality of omnipresent Spirit, and dramatizes the conflict of individual rights versus societal needs. Avatar resists the temptation to simply picture people as good and evil, while raising the age-old problem of exploitation of the weak by the powerful. If you want to hear Unity scholars and thinkers review the Avatar phenomenon, you won't want to miss this one.
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