I am (and have always been) an atheist, and never have let my life be dictated to by religion nor politics. That was my own choice, but sadly that a large number of people are told “you have to believe this…” or “you have to believe what I believe in because it is the truth”.

Shouldn’t people have the choice in watching what they want to watch and for those creative people who create these technological big screen works of genius I salute you.

The whole point of genre is that there is something for everyone, and this is not an attack on anyone’s theological beliefs unless they have designed a movie to be that way. Avatar has done nothing of the sort, nor has Harry Potter or any other movie of it’s genre.

I think these particular religious leaders had better crawl back under their rocks and do some reflection of their own. People who have a brain will not stand this for very long after they realize their mistakes.
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On that note, even if there were overt demonic messages, who cares? Don’t go see the movie then. If by some stretch of the imagination this movie really did have some kind of persuasive agenda, only those already very gullible *cough*Christians*cough* would actually buy into the messages.

Also, I have never said that a lack of evidence proves a fallacy. I have only stated that I am not making any claims to the existence of something without evidence and that the burden of proof rests on the claimant of such fantastical hypotheses.
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For one, I hope you realize that your view of what it means to be philosophical is woefully incorrect. Take a philosophy class or two, especially logic, then try reconsidering you wording. You’re not talking about philosophy, you’re talking about opinion spouting masquerading as debate. And for peat’s sake, please look up the word “epistemology.” That’s about how we can know things (theories of knowledge) and should be of great concern to any science advocate. What you seem to be talking about isn’t epistemology but rather existentialism, or the questioning of one’s existence and meaning in the world. I get why you would snub your nose at the latter, but sure as heck not the former.

Also, please note that attempting to claim a lack of evidence proves something is a fallacy (namely argumentum ad ignorantiam, or an argument from ignorance) and holds just about as much water as the circular argument that Christians employ that the Bible is true because God says it is and we know that God exists because the Bible tells us so. Bad reasoning, no matter the goal or the result, is something we should all avoid.
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How convenient.