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Posted At: 10:25am by AgentDelta
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First of all, I'd like to wish all of you a happy new year!
Second of all, I was watching The X-Files tonight. Specifically, I watched an episode from season 7 called "Signs & Wonders." This was a very interesting episode, and it hinted at a few things that don't normally get said on TV shows.
The premise of the episode goes something like this: People in a small, backwoods Tennessee town are getting attacked and killed by large groups of poisonous snakes. Everybody's first suspect is the pastor of the local snake-handling church (yes, such things do actually exist). These suspicions intensify when Mulder and Scully (the stars of the show, in case you didn't already know) discover that one of the victims had recently left the snake handling church for the other church in town, a community church built on tolerance, where, in the words of its pastor "any belief is welcome." This snake-handling apostate had been persecuted in some way by his former fellow believers.
However, by the end of the episode (SPOILERS AHEAD) we discover that the murderer, a supernatural, demonic entity who is using these large groups of snakes to kill people who know the truth about him, is none other than the tolerance-preaching pastor of the community church! This discovery prompts Mulder to say "People think the devil has horns and a tail. They're not used to looking for some kindly man who tells you what you want to hear."
Isn't that the truth? Satan likes to hide in ordinary, everyday things, right where we'd never expect to find him. Thank goodness for Christ and His death on the cross. Christ has defeated Satan permanently.
If y'all ever get the chance to watch this episode, I recommend that you take it. If you dislike snakes, you'll probably be grossed-out/scared by the episode, but the overall plot and conclusion are worth it, in my opinion.
I probably could have gone into more detail here, and written a more coherent/meaningful post, but at the moment I just want to get my thoughts down before I lose them. If you want more details about the episode or anything else, get in touch with me.
-AD
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Posted On: January 03rd, 2008 at 7:35pm by luvable lutheran |
I like the X-files if you can get by the gross and sometimes demonic themes.
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Posted On: January 03rd, 2008 at 8:37pm by AgentDelta |
I like the X-files if you can get by the gross and sometimes demonic themes.
Yeah, the demonic ones always creep me out. Other than that, I love the show.
-AD
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Posted On: January 04th, 2008 at 2:27am by J Hansen [ + ] |
The X-Files creeped me out quite often as well. Although I haven't watched it in years, I liked the "weird stuff" which wasn't demonic. Usually, the best episodes were ones where there was weirdness, but they never really reveal what it was which caused it. (Sort of like in the movie "The Mothman Prophesies.")
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Posted On: January 07th, 2008 at 10:03am by Calvin [ + ] |
Sounds like a great concept...along those lines, the Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man" is great as well. It's all about the nature of Satan as a great deceiver. Without giving too much away, he sounds so innocent throughout most of the show, but if you pay attention, there's something very obvious that should give the audience pause about him.
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