Do Not Read This If. . . Part #1

Reason #1: If you are under the age of 12, you need at ask parental permission before you read on.

Reason #2: You you want to be able to enjoy the Hunger Games series, stop now.  (What I am about to share will most likely ruin your appetite for this literature and entertainment.)  However, if you desire to walk in full obedience to Christ and to honor Him in every area of your life, please continue reading.

     

    

1) Where is God?
     The worldview upon which this movie is built is known as secular humanism.  According to this website, secular humanism is the view that "all reality and life center around human beings... There is no place in the humanist worldview for either immorality or God."  The Hunger Games present this rejection of God through the adoption of evolutionary thinking and the rejection of absolute morality.
     With God no longer in the picture, all we are left with is evolutionary thinking.  The savage killing fields exhibit the concept of survival of the fittest as competitors mercilessly kill one another. The idea that all other fellow men are simply roadblocks standing in the way of survival plays out throughout the whole story.  Sadly, the movie dehumanizes life when according to www.pluggedin.com, “Gale advises Katniss to equate the people she'll be fighting with the animals she hunts."  Because of this godless perspective, the viewer is persuaded to unknowingly accept this view of humanity.  And where has this view left us?  Abortion?  Euthanasia?  Rioting and Looting?  
     Another consequence of removing God, is we are left with a moral vacuum.   Throughout the movies, Katniss struggles with right and wrong.  In her effort to quiet her conscience she comes up with her own moral standard, if it profits the greater good, than it's okay and justifiable.  This is what we call situational ethics which according to this article states that "decision making should be based upon the circumstance of a particular situation, and not upon fixed law."  But what does God's Word have to say about the issues listed below?

states that decision-making should be based upon the circumstances of a particular situation, and not upon fixed Law. - See more at: http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/situational-ethics.htm#sthash.urCqRJMu.A0cTjSes.dpuf

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. - See more at: http://www.allaboutworldview.org/secular-worldview.htm#sthash.fdZTpsMu.dpuf

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. - See more at: http://www.allaboutworldview.org/secular-worldview.htm#sthash.fdZTpsMu.dpuf

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. - See more at: http://www.allaboutworldview.org/secular-worldview.htm#sthash.fdZTpsMu.dpuf

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. - See more at: http://www.allaboutworldview.org/secular-worldview.htm#sthash.fdZTpsMu.dpuf

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. - See more at: http://www.allaboutworldview.org/secular-worldview.htm#sthash.fdZTpsMu.dpuf

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. - See more at: http://www.allaboutworldview.org/secular-worldview.htm#sthash.fdZTpsMu.dpuf

 Lying:
In Catching Fire, Peeta tells the audience that Katniss is pregnant with their baby in an effort to get the games cancelled.  While the movie producers would like you to think that is it okay because telling this lying was an attempt to secure safety, God's word says otherwise. 

 "(Satan) is the father of lies"
John 8:44

"There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue..."
Proverbs 6:16-17

Murder:
"Cato lies on his side at the very top of the horn, twenty feet above the ground, gasping to catch his breath.... Now's my chance to finish him off.” (Katniss goes on to kill him.)
An excerpt from The Hunger Games book 

"There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood..."
Proverbs 6:16-17

"You shall not murder." (nice and simple)
Deuteronomy 5:17

Sexual Immorality:
A fellow tribute, Joanna, asks Peeta what if feels like now that "the whole world wants to sleep with you." Fed up with being dressed up for the cameras, she strips off her clothes in an elevator carrying Peeta, Katniss and Haymitch. (We see her bare back; our three heroes see much, much more, with Haymitch clearly enjoying the show.) 

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"Katniss and Peeta share a passionate kiss on a beach..."

(Both excerpts from Plugged In)

"Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral... nor adulterers...will inherit the kingdom of God."
1 Corinthians 6:9-10

"God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous."
Hebrews 13:4

     So what lenses have you been using?  Have you allowed the humanistic worldview to train your thinking?  Through the agenda of the Hunger Games movies, has murder become necessary killing, lying become a tactic, and love and sex an opiate that should be used when life just seems overwhelming and hopeless?  I would strongly encourage you to prayerfully think through how this movie has impacted your thinking and write each point down. Then go to scripture and allow God's word and truth to guide you, not the foolishness of this world. Use the right lenses to get the correct view.

 

Accepting the Lesser of Two Evils

     Since when was the last time you heard people accepting, applauding or even falling in love with a murdering, deceptive, sensual, blasphemous,        character as the heroine?  The movie clearly paints a picture of two evils.  However, by glorifying the lesser of the two you are manipulated into accepting this evil.  But it doesn't change the fact that it is still evil.  Soon you start to accept the morality, behavior, and "justifiable sin" of the less evil.  But what is evil?  Listed below are definitions which will help bring some clarity.

• Causing harm or injury to someone

• Profoundly immoral and malevolent

     How do these definitions of evil and the verses listed below relate to Katniss and her friend's behavior throughout the movies?  Take a minute to stop, think, and evaluate the movie in light of these truths.   

It's Still Evil

"Do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, 

for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”

Zachariah 8:17

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Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate.”

Proverbs 8:13

What should be our response to this evil?

"The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil."

Proverbs 8 :13

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“O you who love the Lord, hate what is evil”

Psalms 97:10

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“I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not know wickedness.”

Psalms 101:3

We are to hate what God hates, love what God loves and walk in the light of His Word. Honestly, if you are claiming to be a child of God, this movie should be appalling and repulsive.  It glorifies what God hates and hates what God glorifies.  So why are we accepting this?  Why do we love this evil?

"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people 

loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil."

John 3:19 

                                            
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