Klaatu Project Raucous Discussion Wed Nite Panel Copyright issue delayed this upload

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Here our Wed Nite Panel discusses my original homemade video, KLAATU PROJECT - An Unholy Trinity: Gort, Klaatu, and a Flying Saucer posted 10 March 2022: • • KLAATU PROJECT - An Unholy Trinity: G... • That's the link to my rockin' video interpretation of the 1951 film, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) -- a classic sci-fi film, and my favorite allegory of modern evangelicalism's twisted view of the Trinity. In it you will see and hear: • CAMEO APPEARANCES -- Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Chris Tucker, Ice Cube, Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Bruce Campbell. • ROCK SONGS INCLUDED IN THE KLAATU PROJECT -- Jesus Christ Superstar, Mr. Roboto, Space Oddity, Jailbreak, Riders On the Storm, Sandman, Show Me How to Live • Scripturally speaking, Jesus sacrificially saved humanity from sin. Klaatu, on the other hand saved humanity from Gort (God) with a password: Klaatu birada nikto (the sinner's prayer ?) His was not a rescue mission. It was an ultimatum. It was a threat of fire from a race of robots given Godlike power to burn those who attempt armed aggression. Stopping armed aggression seems a good thing. But how can wiping out a planets give Klaatu the moral high ground? If a man murders, would it be just to execute his family, too? This removes individual accountability. Does having the power to obliterate a planet give one the right to dictate under threat of annihilation what is acceptable behavior? This is the imposition of a vast superpower upon a helpless population. Will earth people accept having new overlords who force them to disarm? • Is Klaatu the impressively dignified emissary he presents himself to be, or an alien supremacist? • Is Klaatu a tolerant ambassador or humanity's new master? • Is his message one of peace and good will or of threat of annihilation? • Does he represent an advanced democracy or a radical police state? • Is his talk of freedom real or propaganda to veil a coup d'état? • A strange Christ figure, Klaatu shows no tender feelings, no compassion or tears, no empathy or concern, and no interest in personal relationships or providing humans with assistance. He cruelly speaks of blowing up New York and wiping out life on earth with no twinge of conscience or remorse. Klaatu shows us a judgmental, exasperated, annoyed, smug, remote threatener, not a savior. He’s a lawgiving overlord with a genocidal robot (the God character) whom he created but can't always control. Comically, Klaatu the messiah even litters on the street and lies to a child about his need for a flashlight. • In perhaps the strangest plot hole in the film, Klaatu gives Professor Barnhart the formula for the development of the very technology (celestial mechanics) which moments later he warns will put the planet in grave danger . • A Christ figure at first glance, perhaps, Klaatu reveals himself as a kind of antichrist. He sells his mission of ultimatum as a mission to save, which makes this Christ's theology not one of grace, but of decision. To save ourselves we are told we have to make a decision for Klaatu. I don't buy decisional salvation or a theology of threat and fear. To Klaatu I do not say, “Yes, sir and No, sir. I don't care to repeat, Klaatu barada nikto, either. To Klaatu and all smiling, extorting thugs, I say, Give me liberty or give me death. I'd rather die free than to be a slave of intergalactic automatons of mass destruction on every street corner.

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