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Prometheus: What Lies Asunder? Not another Spoiler Dear God!
The film Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott, explores the thoughts on the origin of life on the planet we call Earth, if the entity we know as God is actually a superior race of Engineers from the stars, and weaving several religious symbols we associate with Christianity into the plot. In ancient mythology, Prometheus was the Titan god of forethought and was charged with the shaping of man from clay. He was later cast out for trying to give mankind too much power to suit the other gods. In the movie, Prometheus is also the name of the spaceship that the scientist’s use to carry out their own search for our origins. At the beginning, the movie depicts how the aliens seeded Earth …show more content…

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds” (Spitznagel). From these two quotes, it is evident that Ridley wanted to show that God is an alien because in this twisted tale even Jesus is an alien, this from the director himself is hard to refute. However, if this were set to reason it would not stand the test, for the aliens looked similar to us but discernably different and all we have learned from biblical teachings is that Jesus looked ordinarily human just endowed with certain powers from or through God. Had he looked otherworldly history would have been written differently; the Bible teaches that God made us in his image and anything less would not have been seen as the son of God. But this does help explain why the Engineers want to obliterate us, we crucified one of their emissaries, Jesus. Of the religious symbols in the film, the most noteworthy of them is the fact that Dr. Shaw believes that aliens created us yet she wears a cross, this is quite intriguing, to say the least. The cross, we learn, in one of her dreams, is given to her as a child by her mother, we do not know at this point if it is a sentimental keepsake or if indeed she is very devout. In that she really cares for the cross is evidenced in the movie in the scene near the end where the injured and blood-stained Noomi Rapace grasps for her cross, and the now beheaded android David says, “Even after all this, you still believe” (Prometheus). It seems that a scientist wearing a cross and believing that we were created by aliens is contradictory. However, it could be, in my view, that as the film explores God vs. Alien creation, she worships the creator that gave us life regardless of who it was. Further evidence of the

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