Here is some more pop theology for you, this time regarding the nature of man; it comes to you from the 2007 horror film 
- Amanda Dumfries
- You don’t have much faith in humanity, do you?
- Dan Miller
- None whatsoever.
- Amanda Dumfries
- I can’t accept that. People are basically good, decent. My God, David, we’re a civilized society.
- David Drayton
- Sure, as long as the machines are working and you can dial 9-1-1, but you take those things away, you throw people in the dark, you scare the **** out of them… No more rules.
Also:
- Ollie Weeks
- As a species we’re fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up ways to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
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And, honestly, that is one thing that was so intriguing about the Mist, to me.
Though I found the “monsters” to be a bit, well…lame, like all true, good sci-fi, it deals with human issues: namely the ability of man under some pressure to lose all semblance of “humanity”; this same idea was addressed many times in the Twilight Zone. And the sociological aspect is the main draw of sci-fi to me.
The more I think about this movie, the more I like it.
I like it a lot as well; still, it, like so many other movies, leaves me wondering what the story would be like if there was what I would consider a Bible-literate Christian present.
This movie’s “Bible thumper” was a crazy pseudo-cult leader who apparently hadn’t figured out that Jesus’ death meant God no longer demanded blood sacrifice. And everyone else who claimed to believe in God believed in one who was dissociated from the “Old Testament God” or who apparently recognized “the good in people.”
Silent Hill is another horror movie that comes to mind in this regard.
The Borg queenAlice Krige’s character Christabella was a fairly Bible-illiterate cult/church/whatever leader as well, and an entire town’s problems hinged on her mishandling of the Word.I agree with you, though, The Twilight Zone does bring a lot of issues to light through the stories it tells. That’s what’s great about the various Star Trek series as well; so often major sociological or even psychological problems or issues can be raised by way of story telling which in turn reveals a lot about us as a culture.