Does anyone else watch it recently?

First, it was Baltar's speech that "God loves only those who are perfect. He loves us, because we are perfect, just as we are" (without a Mediator, mind you).

Then, it was Six's speech that "Death make human whole".

So, what are the producers/writers doing with these recent episodes? Are they making fun of Christianity? Or do they really think those are Christian belief?

Personally, I think the producers/writers are closet Calvinist trying to make fun of the popular evangelical culture (Pelagianism etc)

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Polo
Layman, Chinese Evangelical Church/Independent
San Diego

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. (Romans 11:36)

I haven't seen the New BSG series but have been told that the old one contained a lot of Mormon teaching in it. Check this out: MORMONS IN SPACE

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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

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I love BSG and have never heard nor seen of a Cylon named "Lucifer" and I am certain I would remember if I did.

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Adam Leavelle
Westminster OPC
Roaring Spring Pa.

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Yeah, something like that is not easy to forget. Think he might be referring to the old series? Been wanting to watch the New series but hate coming in on the end not knowing what's been going on before. Guess I'll have to wait for it to go into syndication like ST: Voyager.

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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

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Buy the seasons on DVD. I'll watch them again and again. I've never seen such an amazing show on TV in my life. Lost comes close, but not quite as good, well written, and gripping with such amazing special effects as is BSG.

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Adam Leavelle
Westminster OPC
Roaring Spring Pa.

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I grow increasingly disappointed with Battlestar Galactica. It began a good show, and now it's filled with the usual tripe that producers and writers think they must throw in there to keep people comin' back: illicit sex, etc.

Though they've always been using euphemisms, such usages have increased more and more. Now they pervasively use minced oaths, replacing the name of the True God in vain with using the "gods"' names in vain.

The show was good starting out, there was no need to start adding and increasing this nonsense into it.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
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I found shows like BSG (The new series) and House MD to be very interesting in terms of story telling techniques. But even more interesting are their view of religion.

Take House, for example. He is a typical skeptic/atheist. "Everybody lies" is his motto. But what he truly believe, are: "everybody lies, except myself", "All other people have reason to lie, except me, who is perfectly neutral and objective" "I deal with facts only. And with reasoning and medicine I can solve any problem".

BSG, in one sense, is more skeptical and critical towards science and technology (after all, it's science and technology that leads to cylon) and more sympathetic towards religion. But it's increasingly clear that the religion in the show (as well as the religious messages in Batman, Spiderman, Ironman etc) is just one that men saves themselves by their own strength without the need of a Substitute. I guess this is the farthest one can go with natural revelation ...

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Polo
Layman, Chinese Evangelical Church/Independent
San Diego

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. (Romans 11:36)

It's a Mormon show.

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Camille
Member, Mitchell Road Presbyterian, PCA
Taylors, SC

Then Mormanism makes for GREAT story telling!

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Adam Leavelle
Westminster OPC
Roaring Spring Pa.

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Orson Scott Card fans would agree.

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Camille
Member, Mitchell Road Presbyterian, PCA
Taylors, SC

Mormonism and greek mythology!

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Nathan Olaf Brandal
First Baptist Church of Kirkland

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I KNEW I say those Cylons reading Pearl of Great Price, they LOVED their Lorenzo Snow! Silly Cylons!

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~etexas~

Lucifer was Baltar's sidekick Cylon on the original series. Yes, Etexas, those silly Cylons were reading pearl of some kind of price. I like the series, part ST:Voyager, part soap opera, and the other parts get my polemetical dandruff in an uproar and it turns into a Rocky Horror Picture show experience!! But its great! How will the season end? Who's number 12 (hint, hint etexas for a poll )

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Timothy Johnson
First United Presbyterian of Moline
PCUSA (Yea, I know)
Theology/Philosophy Sunday School Teacher
Davenport, IA

Don't know about BSG, but I do like to read OSC!

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~James Helbert~, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
TheBibleAlone.com / The Edinburgh Inn
"Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” - Zechariah 3:2

Another movie I greatly enjoyed was John Wayne's 3 Godfathers, but its mix of Catholicism and Mormonism was so disheartening.

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Will Shin
Rockville, MD