Wednesday, May 09, 2007

300

300 was a dark, bloody, raw and sensual film that has mesmerized
thousands of young men and many preachers.
Here is one pastors take on it:
http://uploads.acts29network.org/media/Articles/ThisIsLikeSparta.pdf

2 comments:

Todd Bacon said...

I haven't seen it. But pulled this from "Plugged-In Online":

"The oracle is barely clothed in a gauzy sheet that reveals her breast. It's implied that the Ephors use her sexually at will, and one licks the oracle's neck as she delivers her prophecy. A graphic sex scene between Leonidas and his wife includes movement, his uncovered rear and several shots of her breasts. Xerxes invites Ephialtes into his harem and uses promises of sexual pleasure to get him to betray the Spartans. Several women are topless and kiss one another in this sensual, orgy-like scene; others are nearly naked.

Queen Gorgo's chief opponent on the council is a devious man named Theron; in exchange for his help, she allows him to have his way with her. It's implied (as he violently grabs her) that he's virtually raping her. (We briefly glimpse her robe fall to the ground.)

Spartan women, especially the queen, wear cleavage-baring robes without undergarments."

For me, those visual depictions are definited temptations, from which I am told to flee.

Every Man's Battle mentions how the ONLY source of ANY sexual stimulation is to come from one's wife and one's wife alone.

Ephesians 5:3 - But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.

Michael McMullen said...

I actually did see it and wasn't tempted by the things I saw in that movie.

Peace brother.