{"id":1446,"date":"2010-05-24T00:15:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2010-08-04T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:25:51","slug":"lost-lots-of-secular-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"LOST: Lots Of Secular Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1447\" title=\"lost-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lost-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lost-logo.jpg 480w, https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lost-logo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m pleased to say that LOST, the ABC TV series, is finally over. And, as much as I enjoyed it, I was really hoping for a better series finale than the one the writers decided on. In the end, the writers decided to give us all a crummy commentary on &#8220;life after death&#8221; according to a pluralistic, pagan worldview that does not believe in immortality or resurrection or anything consistent with the hope of Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection. Now, I wasn&#8217;t expecting them to give a Christian message&#8230; I was hoping that they would simply NOT give a commentary on &#8216;life after death.&#8217; It was an utterly horrible and unorignal conglomeration of secular and pagan thinking about how, when you die, you get to be with your loved one&#8217;s and relive the best parts of your life until you find out that you are actually dead and get to &#8216;let go&#8217; or &#8216;move on&#8217; to something else&#8230; Let&#8217;s just walk into the bright light of oblivion and cry our eyes out!<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you have any thoughts, I would love to hear them. I really would have loved for the ending of LOST to be about an alternate universe that was created, in which they were able to live their lives together in happineness\u00a0&#8211; this\u00a0would have at least carried\u00a0the idea of some kind of &#8216;new creation&#8217; that came out of their actions on the Island. Yes, I know that&#8217;s not a complete Christian message, and as I said before &#8211; I didn&#8217;t expect it to be. I simply hoped that the writers would say that they created a <em>new world<\/em>, instead of deciding to cater to people&#8217;s curiosity about &#8216;life after death&#8217; and what that migh be like if there is no God and our redemption is left up to ourselves working together&#8230; The fictional world of LOST did not require such an ending in order to be special or good. It was just unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Let me hear your thoughts if you watched the series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m pleased to say that LOST, the ABC TV series, is finally over. And, as much as I enjoyed it, I was really hoping for a better series finale than the one the writers decided on. In the end, the writers decided to give us all a crummy commentary on &#8220;life after death&#8221; according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOST: Lots Of Secular Thinking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,86,4,29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-culture","category-culture-news","category-current-events","category-eschatology","category-pop-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}