Okay, for those of you that don't know, I'm a pretty huge fan of LOST. I've been avoiding the fan forums for a while, but I decided to revisit them today. I think I'm glad I've been away.
As usual, but especially now as the series is winding down, there are theory threads all over the place. I've just waded through a few of them. Some are interesting, some are not. But there's a trend I've noticed where some theories are being attacked for being too "Judeo-Christian." Some have suggested that these "Bible Freaks" have no business putting their "Jesus Theories" up on these discussion forums. Not only do they disagree with the theories, but they are suggesting that they are all just annoying and baseless attempts to yet again thrust religion where it doesn't belong.
To these people I have to say: "Oh, come the fuck on!!!"
I mean, really... hate on religion all you want to, but can you really exclude it as possible literary source material for a TV show?! Have you been watching the show at all!? If you're going to deny the exceedingly obvious references to multiple world religions and themes on LOST, then you're either painfully stupid, painfully uneducated, or painfully stubborn enough to be the equivalent of painfully stupid and painfully uneducated. When half of the characters are named after biblical figures, when our characters include priests, when our settings include churches, when our dialogue mentions Hell, and when episodes are titled after Exodus and Psalms, then I think viewers are allowed to at least theorize that something religious or spiritual might be going on here...
You don't have to believe in a God to acknowledge literary allusions. And whether or not you think the Bible is a work of fiction doesn't make it any less significant as one of the greatest and most referenced literary works of all time. I haven't done any fact checking on this but it's pretty much gotta be THE greatest literary work... ever. I do know it's the #1-all-time-bestselling book.
But hey, maybe your Space Alien/Time Travel theory is going to hold up in the end without any spiritualism at all. I guess we'll see.
Wow, I hate people sometimes...
Time to rickroll some forums.
