AVATAR, the Vatican and Neo Paganism

I saw a post about this on Mrs. B’s facebook page that the Pope was coming out against the movie Avatar.  Of course, I haven’t seen the movie yet, and this just makes me want to see it even more.  You can read the entire article here.

The pope also denounced the “supposedly egalitarian vision” that human beings and other living creatures should be placed on the same plane of existence, adding that such a worldview would “open the way to a new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man’s salvation in nature alone, understood in purely naturalistic terms.

What is wrong with putting people and animals on the same plane of existence?  I personally believe that ALL life is sacred.  Animals and humans are included in that.  None should be devalued.

Oh wait, he is talking about worship.  That man’s salvation in nature alone.  Hmmm. I believe that the spirit of the Goddess and God flows through all living things…plants, people, animals.  But I believe that the Goddess and God are the same divinity that other faiths worship, I just see a different facet of the whole than they see.  So I feel the power flows from divinity, not just from nature alone.  So…I’m losing where he thinks that is neo-paganism.  But then again, I’m also not familiar with the many flavors of faith either.

The article is an interesting read, and I agree with the author, when the movie releases in Italy after that proclamation, it will probably be mobbed.