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At some level, we appear to be aware that our secular messianic indulgences of the past couple of years are dangerous:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahjPQjQGdbU<\/a>\n

Of course, if this is a reboot a la Battlestar Galactica<\/em>, we will also discover the warm, human side of the predator aliens and finally arrive at some Hegelian synthesis in which all sides realize their common frailty, affirm each other in their okayness in the midst of gritty and stark photography, and finally arrive at a preposterous denouement in which everybody agrees to some ridiculous proposition like \u201cget rid of all technology\u201d so that the writers can get on with making the sequel.<\/p>\n

Still, gotta love an alien-battlin\u2019 priest, though five\u2019ll get you ten he\u2019s going to be Episcopalian, since you get the aesthetics without the actual doctrinal content screenwriters know nothing about.<\/p>\n

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At some level, we appear to be aware that our secular messianic indulgences of the past couple of years are dangerous: Of course, if this is a reboot a la Battlestar Galactica, we will also discover the warm, human side of the predator aliens and finally arrive at some Hegelian synthesis in which all sides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSublimating our Fears<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At some level, we appear to be aware that our secular messianic indulgences of the past couple of years are dangerous:Of course, if this is a reboot a la\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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