I think about it much in the way that modern media appropriates many ancient religious symbols and uses them to tell a story (for example, an Anubis figure - ancient Egyptian deity - in Bounty Killer as stand in for a Christian devil) no one complains about this use of religious symbol (because there's very few around that still worship Anubis - maybe) yet the image of the jackal-headed god is buried in our collective unconscious, so it still pulls some sort of primal trigger.
Personally, having grown up being indoctrinated into a Christian church, and discarding it in adulthood, I know the Christ story, I never believed it as literal truth, but as a metaphor, it's still a really good story, and could and should be re-told.
Whether Gackt's taken this metaphor and done something thoughtful with it, or used it to shock will have to be seen (or heard) when the song and vid are released. But it's the dismissal of it before it's even seen or heard that bugs me the most, in the case, it's the close-minded who will lose out.
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Date: 2008-10-17 01:07 pm (UTC)Personally, having grown up being indoctrinated into a Christian church, and discarding it in adulthood, I know the Christ story, I never believed it as literal truth, but as a metaphor, it's still a really good story, and could and should be re-told.
Whether Gackt's taken this metaphor and done something thoughtful with it, or used it to shock will have to be seen (or heard) when the song and vid are released. But it's the dismissal of it before it's even seen or heard that bugs me the most, in the case, it's the close-minded who will lose out.