{"id":6591,"date":"2010-01-28T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/28\/was-avatar-anti-religious\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:40:41","slug":"was-avatar-anti-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/28\/was-avatar-anti-religious\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Avatar Anti-Religious"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Avatar-11093.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Avatar-thumb-333x200-11093.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Avatar.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\"><\/a><\/span>Some are arguing strenuously <a href=\"http:\/\/amfix.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/01\/26\/critics-avatar-is-anti-military-anti-religion\/?hpt=Sbin\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">against the megahit movie <i>Avatar<\/i><\/a>. The general complaints are that James Cameron\u2019s movie, while a powerful visual experience, is:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pro-environment<\/div>\n<div>Anti-religious<\/div>\n<div>Liberal, left-wing agenda<\/div>\n<div>Anti-military<\/div>\n<div>Worship of nature<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>What do you think?<\/b><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some are arguing strenuously against the megahit movie Avatar. The general complaints are that James Cameron\u2019s movie, while a powerful visual experience, is: Pro-environment Anti-religious Liberal, left-wing agenda Anti-military Worship of nature What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Was Avatar Anti-Religious<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some are arguing strenuously against the megahit movie Avatar. 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