Starving for Religion in 'Hunger Games'

Real Clear Religion ^ | March 26, 2012 | Jeffrey Weiss

[Craftmore]

Have you read the books or seen the movie?Because I saw nothing in the books or movie to indicate atheism In any way shape or form.If anything as I have previously posted I saw the hand of God everywhere. It was a movie to me that shows what could happen after Obama has his way and we fail in our initial attempt at revolution.

[WVNan]

Thank you sir. I knew it was something like that. It was so long ago that I read it, and my short term memory is approaching 5 minutes, I couldn’t recall the exact quote or the author of it. It is true of course. We just saw a gathering of atheists in the news. They are the most religious people on earth. They have made their unbelief their god. Environmentalists make nature their god. Everybody pays allegiance to something.

[WVNan]

What you said.

[GeronL]

:)

[kalee]

Ping

[Borges]

Give an example of a book that 99% will loathe. And influence on other writers is a large factor - that is fairly objective. Say Joyce, whose influence can still be seen in everything from literary fiction to pulp thrillers.

[alrea]

If the government wants total control, it either purges religion altogether, creates one that it controls to replace established religions, absorbs it into the government, or relegates it to a small corner

or subsidizes immorality

[GOPJ]

Totally unfair.

“A Clockwork Orange’ is a classic - “The Hunger Games,” - a fun read... You’re right - it’s “like comparing McDonald’s to a fine restaurant”. I have no defense.

[ctdonath2]

“Give an example of a book that 99% will loathe.”

Silmarillion.

Make 100 random people read it, maybe 1 will actually do so.
A great book, just far beyond most of the population.

[dfwgator]

Silmarillion.

Well it was the source of the name of one of my favorite bands....Marillion.

[doug from upland]

Reminded me of some of the elements in RUNNING MAN.

[Borges]

Maybe but it’s not remotely a standard literary text.

[ctdonath2]

I have yet to hear a good review of Moby Dick.

[Ciexyz]

I remember that episode from Star Trek and I specifically recall my delight that there was a reference to Jesus Christ, something about 'they said they worshipped the Son and here we thought they meant the Sun' (a play on words).

[stevie_d_64]

Sure, I can see your point...

But the truth is that that worldly situation is something that might have been avoided had people had the courage to stand up to those that would bring such an un-Godly process to their civilization (for lack of a better term)...

Sure, there are people who do come out and become the fighters for good against evil...But, there was no resolution to the problem in this first film...

I understand some things develop further in the next book (movie), and the setup on this film is kinda obvious...

We saw a little of that after the folks in Rue’s district fought back after she was killed...That was actually something that surprised me, as I just can’t imagine some of us just standing by to watch kids be offered up as “tributes” for a slaughter, with only one winner..The last boy or girl standing...

Taking 74 years of this just doesn’t compute to have someone who grew up in that environment to be the only one to setup for the real fight that is sure to come up...

Someone who has read the entire series should chime in here and let us know if the system will be changed by this girl, and her partner...From what I heard the formula for the screenplay was pretty close to the novel...

This is just my opinion BTW...

[stevie_d_64]

Interesting comparison...

Even if the US goes totally socialist...It will not take 74 years to correct that issue...

And yes, before anyone says we are almost there, I get it...

We still have a few more battles to fight and win though...

[Borges]

One of my favorite books in the world. I know a number of people who like it. You really have to love words though.

[af_vet_rr]

Taking 74 years of this

North Korea has over 60 years of behavior that is as bad as Hunger Games. You're talking about people who are either brainwashed or pretend to be brainwashing in order to stay alive.

[stevie_d_64]

Yep, and there are mobs of brainwashed idiots in our country a well, who do not, or better could not, understand the effects of their ignorance...

[discostu]

Joyce is a fine example, lit nerds like you like his books, nobody else does. Influence on other writers (who lets face it have a high chance of being lit nerds) really is no reason to force high school kids to read it. If they start reading books by somebody that was influenced by Joyce they can look it up by CHOICE later in their life, when they’ll probably have a longer attention span and be more capable of wading through his pointlessly meandering sentences. That’s another part of the problem with how we shove “great” books down the throats of high school and college kids, we know scientifically that people in that age group have the attention span of gnats and yet we try to make them read books where the first sentence takes 27 words to say there’s a stream that goes past a house some fields and a castle. Really save the Joyce and stuff for grownups that have the attention span for it, leave it there to find if they want. Making them read it in school only teaches them that books suck.