Avatar: Pantheism, proof, and pretty stuff

The subject of SF theology has been widely-discussed for the last
week, thanks to James Cameron's Avatar. (It would have to happen when
I'm on vacation, huh?) In a column for the New York Times, Ross Douthat
demonizes the film for its pantheism; Beliefnet's Pagan blogger Gus di
Zerega praises it for the same; for Religion Dispatches, C. Joshua
Villines frames the film as a ritual of atonement for "the sins of
commercialism and Western triumphalism"; even the Daily Show had its say. The...