Comments on: The Archons Wear Prada http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/25/the-archons-wear-prada/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin P. Edgecomb http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/25/the-archons-wear-prada/comment-page-1/#comment-5112 Kevin P. Edgecomb Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:14:34 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/25/the-archons-wear-prada/#comment-5112 Bring 'em on! I've got a St Jerome streak I'm willing to let them experience! Bring ‘em on! I’ve got a St Jerome streak I’m willing to let them experience!

]]> By: Phil S http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/25/the-archons-wear-prada/comment-page-1/#comment-5077 Phil S Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:18:39 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/25/the-archons-wear-prada/#comment-5077 Well, that was...striking. On the artistic side, it was stylish and compelling, but, while I was watching it, I couldn't help but be forcible struck by the sheer hubris of it all. After all, the speaker in the Thunder, Perfect Mind is making some pretty big statements about themselves and, presumably, their identification with God. Isn't this a really good example of taking ourselves as humans far too seriously and substituting ourselves as God. Isn't this the logic consequence of Gnostic thinking? I'm not sure that I'm surprised that this is as expurgated as it is. Advertizers are notorious for strip-mining any culture they run into. What I worry about is that this is a pretty funky commercial and it may charge up even more interest in Gnostic belief and I think we Christians need to be worried about it. Peace, Phil Well, that was…striking. On the artistic side, it was stylish and compelling, but, while I was watching it, I couldn’t help but be forcible struck by the sheer hubris of it all. After all, the speaker in the Thunder, Perfect Mind is making some pretty big statements about themselves and, presumably, their identification with God. Isn’t this a really good example of taking ourselves as humans far too seriously and substituting ourselves as God. Isn’t this the logic consequence of Gnostic thinking?

I’m not sure that I’m surprised that this is as expurgated as it is. Advertizers are notorious for strip-mining any culture they run into. What I worry about is that this is a pretty funky commercial and it may charge up even more interest in Gnostic belief and I think we Christians need to be worried about it.

Peace,
Phil

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