Hollywood frequently incorporates religion into films. Some religious movies are excellent such as Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, King of Kings, The Robe, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Bishop’s Wife, and A Man Called Peter, while others openly display hostility towards religion as seen in films such as The Da Vince Code and The Last Temptation of Christ. However, what I find most offensive is when Hollywood alludes to scriptural images and concepts to lauch a movie into a level that transcends the weird and bizarre. This new level of misusing the Bible is precisely what has been done in the latest movie staring Nicolas Cage entitled Knowing—and I object.

First, I object to the misuse of biblical prophecies. The idea that Ezekiel or any of the prophets saw space ships is beyond ridiculous. The words of Ezekiel chapter one do not describe an alien spaceship no matter how well the special effects of Hollywood might like to pick up on the imagery. Knowing picks up where Erick von Daniken’s discredited book Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past left off.

Second, I object to the idea of intelligent life on other planets—let alone other planets being inhabited by superior beings. The Bible declares that man, who made in the image of God, is the crowning act of creation. The incarnation and the resurrection of Christ testifies to the exalted place of humanity in the universe.

Third, I object to the biblical story of the Garden of Eden being mistold and recast so that life begins with two children holding two white bunny rabbits racing towards the tree of life only after being transported from earth and planted as young Adam and Eve pods on a new planet.

Generally, I do not mind the fanciful imagination of Hollywood writers and directors using creative license. There is freedom of speech in our country and freedom of expression. I just wish, however, that Hollywood would leave the Bible out when the writers and directors take their flights of imagination into the areas that are weird and the bizarre.

The truth of the matter is that the Word of God condemns much of what Hollywood promotes: militant homosexual activism, blatant immorality, evolution, economic socialism and governmental internationalism. Many of the movies of Hollywood fall under one of the seven most deadly sins categories of Proverbs 6:16-19—wicked imaginations, and Knowing is one of them.