June 29th, 2010 by admin

Not to be confused with propaganda from the History Channel, 2012: Doomsday is the film (I use the term loosely) that attempts to combine Christianity and 2012 disaster theories. It is unwatchably bad, with the most compelling dilemma raised in the film being whether the acting is even worse than the writing, or vice versa. Sharon K. Gilbert recently called the film “pseudo-Christian claptrap,” which is certainly an apt, although perhaps overly kind, description.  

The premise of the film is that “Doomsday” occurs because the earth’s rotation stops because of alignment between the earth, the sun, and an [imaginary] black hole in the center of the galaxy. Furthermore, the viewer finds out that along with being human-sacrificing blood thirsty savages, the Mayans were also…that’s right…Christians. We know this because some of the film’s protagonists find a gold crucifix dating back to 300 AD. No, seriously, that’s what happens.

The absurdity of this has not been lost on reviewers who justifiably skewer the film. Excruciatingly bad “Christian” films/books/music/t-shirts, etc. are nothing new, of course. However, attempting to pass what is blatantly a New Age spirituality recruiting tool (the 2012 theories) off as “Christian” is not just cheesy, it is anti-biblical and detrimental to Christianity itself. There is no biblical precedent for God using a pagan society that sacrifices and cannibalizes its members to purvey truth about the world. There is absolutely no biblical basis for suspecting that the year 2012 has any special prophetic significance. As far as I can tell, the filmmakers simply stole material from the History Channel piece on 2012 and decided that anything that refers to the end of the world must be in agreement with biblical prophecy.

People should of course to be free to make whatever films that exploit and promote 2012 theories that they want to. However, to try and imply that these theories align with biblical prophecy is at best misguided and at worst is a deliberate and calculated deception.

Feel free to post other reviews and comments below.

–Andrew

June 22nd, 2010 by admin

When researching the plethora of 2012 theories, one will run into three main streams of evidence. Scientific, historic, and personal spiritual revelation. The purpose of this post is to show that the supposed scientific and historic support for 2012 theories is nothing but a smokescreen designed to make the only actual source of 2012 theories seem more plausible. www.2012hoax.org does a great job of pointing out the lack of actual historic and scientific evidence for 2012 theories. If you doubt this, however, please post examples of scientists and historians who espouse 2012 theories in the comment section below. Or, short of finding actual scientists or historians, please post examples of 2012 theories based and supported only by science and history.
Personal spiritual revelation is both the weakest form of support (at least for people other than the experiencer) and the most difficult to disprove. It is not the purpose of this post to argue that the espousers of 2012 theories that populate the Internet are lying about their experiences. In fact, I am willing to concede that many people are attempting to tell the truth about their experiences and genuinely believe they have had them. However, it is important to identify the true source of 2012 theories as these personal spiritual experiences, not science or history. Once the general stream of these theories (personal spiritual experience) is identified we can begin to speculate on what the actual source of these experiences is. But let’s get one thing straight, 2012 isn’t about science or history.
–Andrew Hoffman